Word: blitzkrieging
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...empire. They took the half of Poland that had been partitioned to the Soviet Union in 1939, stripped off the Baltic states that Moscow had annexed just a year before, seized Belorussia, and were marching south into Ukraine. Stalin's generals were stunned. They had believed the idea of blitzkrieg was an unreliable bourgeois strategy. No one had expected such a lightning conquest...
Like Moscow, the city had been surprised by the speed of the Nazi blitzkrieg. Three weeks after the invasion, German forces were already 125 miles south of Leningrad. But where many Muscovites panicked, residents of the old imperial capital resolutely began building a network of barricades outside the city -- a million volunteers in a city of almost 3 million; many died as they labored, killed by Nazi bombs and machine-gun attacks. But in July and August they produced 340 miles of antitank ditches, 15,875 miles of open trenches, 400 miles of barbed-wire fences, 5,000 pillboxes...
...reasonable standard, both treaties were estimable accomplishments. CFE blunted the threat of a Soviet-led blitzkrieg by the Warsaw Pact against Western Europe; START brought about a substantial reduction in MIRVed ICBMs, particularly Soviet ones, the potential instruments of a nuclear-age Pearl Harbor. However, by the time CFE was signed, the Warsaw Pact was nearly defunct, and one of its member states, East Germany, had ceased to exist -- or more to the point, had defected to NATO. Soviet divisions were pulling out of Eastern Europe for reasons that had nothing to do with CFE and everything to do with...
...mighty military machine to deter a massive Soviet-led invasion of Western Europe. But the dragon that breathed genuine fire for so many years is slinking back into its cave. As many as a million troops that were once available -- at least on paper -- to mount a communist blitzkrieg are melting away. The dissolution of the Warsaw Pact two months ago removed some 500,000 soldiers of Moscow's former allies in Eastern Europe from even theoretical Kremlin control. Another 500,000 Soviet troops are being pulled back within the borders of the U.S.S.R...
...response to the Brady bill, LaPierre has spearheaded a blitzkrieg of mailings, phone calls and advertisements designed to inflame N.R.A. members and intimidate foes. On the day of the House vote, the organization poured its money into full-page ads in the Washington Post, while the airwaves were flooded with anti-Brady spots. "The N.R.A. really overplayed their hand with the massive advertising campaign," said Representative F. James Sensenbrenner, a Wisconsin Republican. It "became a vote on whether you support the N.R.A. or not." It remains to be seen whether the gun lobby will make good on its threat...