Word: blitzing
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...blitz produces an upset...
...Warsaw Pact's strength continues to grow. But Washington's new stress on NATO has begun showing such encouraging results that U.S. generals now think that the East's ability to mount a successful blitz is decreasing. NATO Commanding General Alexander Haig told TIME: "You don't do these things overnight. In 1975 we designed a series of flexibility studies to improve our reaction time and enhance the alliance. We came up with about 900 findings and they served as a basis for our program...
...more forward strategy. To avoid being caught far from the front in a blitz attack, a number of U.S. units have been shifted closer to the East German border. The most important redeployment is the transfer, still under way, of the 2nd Armored Division's powerful "Forward" Brigade from Grafenwöhr in the south to a new base outside Bremen. These are the first U.S. combat units to be permanently stationed in the North German Plain since the Occupation era. In this perfect tank country, through which invaders from the east are expected to come, the U.S. reinforces...
...practice at reloading and refueling F-4 Phantoms, crews now have the jets ready for takeoff on another mission within 30 minutes, compared with 60 minutes two years ago. More reinforcements sooner. Once hostilities seem imminent or begin, NATO depends on rapid reinforcement from the U.S. In a true blitz, however, resupplies might arrive too late to be of much help. To prevent this, large quantities of equipment earmarked for units that would arrive from the U.S. are being stored in West Germany. In the first days of a crisis, therefore, transport planes could carry troops almost exclusively, rather than...
...politically crafty Tanaka, who is a longtime foe of Fukuda. Tanaka, who still heads one of the strongest L.D.P. factions despite the corruption charges, helped devise Ohira's winning strategy, which was to lie low until two weeks before the vote, then launch a costly, eleventh-hour campaign blitz. Lulled by the polls, which consistently showed him with a comfortable lead, Fukuda never had time to counterattack...