Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is also a lack of organization and discipline on the part of the students, and one thing that may be learned from the history of the battlefield is that it is hard either to win or to lose a war if the other side is not organized. I am reminded of Winfield Scott's approach to Mexico City: he was told to take it easy or there might not be a government there to surrender when he took the place...
...turn now to the battlefield. I thought, when I contributed the title of this paper some months ago, that I was going to draw most of my insights from the battlefield. I was curious about the limits in war, about truces and how to maintain them, about escalation and de-escalation. I thought Israeli-Jordanian activity might offer an analogy for student-faculty activity. I did not mainly have guerrilla warfare in mind...
Almost every region of the world can qualify today as either a target of terrorists or a training ground. Even the tranquil fields of The Netherlands have served as a mock battlefield for a group of Indonesian separatists seeking independence for the South Moluccas Islands; Basque nationalists train secretly in northern Spain and southwestern France. Many countries dabble in terrorism, but five in particular have become large-scale exporters of insurgency. The five...
...wrote Lieut. Calley a letter telling him that I am praying that he will soon be free. He fought for me and for all of us in beautiful America. He did what he thought best on the battlefield. He did not burn his draft card or say he was a conscientious objector...
...frigid Bear Paw Mountains with the words: "From where the sun now stands I will fight no more forever." Red Wolf became a cobbler, country musician and farmer. In 1967, he returned to Big Hole and turned the first shovelful of dirt for the visitor center at Big Hole Battlefield National Monument...