Word: beene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Altogether it was an unrelieved week of lost face for the Japanese. A spokesman in Tokyo admitted that the fighting against Russia on the Mongolian border, terminated by a surprise truce on Sept. 16, had been climaxed by a "disastrous, bitter battle." Soviet forces both numerically and mechanically superior to...
> Along the entire 100-mile French-German border from Luxembourg to the Rhine, 155 square miles had been occupied-an average penetration of exactly 1.55 miles.
The First Minnesota Regiment-strong, nice boys, but gun fodder-went into the Battle of Gettysburg 262 strong. The carnage was cruel: to 85% came death or wounds. But at no time in the Civil War did any unit of more than 1,000 men suffer higher than 20% casualties...
Since World War I, tacticians have become increasingly conscious of the Axiom. Theme of every drill manual, every military article has been to cut casualties. French training doctrine admonishes not to attack unless you can throw over four pounds of steel and high explosive for every pound the enemy can...
How great that efficiency was Adolf Hitler last week revealed in his speech to the members of the Reichstag. "As I am now about to make known to you the number of our dead and wounded," he said, "I request that you rise from your seats. . . . According to the casualty...