Word: captain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Briton who can explain muth to his countrymen about why this war started off so slowly (see p. 31), why the West ern Front was still so quiet last week, is a tall, thin officer of infantry in World War I: Captain Basil Henry Liddell Hart, 43, D. S. 0. V. C. Few weeks ago Captain Liddell Hart suffered a nervous break down, retired to the west of England, resigned his job as military expert for the august London Times...
...Than Captain Liddell Hart, no other ten military critics caused more stir in the 20 years following World War I. He studied the campaigns of 1914-18, emerged with the conclusion that the generals on both sides had bungled fantastically: wasted millions of lives, exhausted their national patrimonies, achieved virtually nothing except to end the war by exhaustion. Other military men raised their eye brows at some of his military teachings, but when Leslie Hore-Belisha became Secretary of State for War in 1937, he began to listen to Captain Liddell Hart's advice, began to mechanize the British...
During the tense days of last spring, Captain Liddell Hart was at work on a big new volume: The Defence of Britain.* Events moved so fast that he had to finish it at a sprint, a misfortune from which the finished book suffers. Its last 190 pages are too full of military detail to interest most civilians, but its first 243 pages are meaty, revealing...
Remembering from "last time" the futility of trying to charge against a machine gun, Captain Liddell Hart lays down the axiom that in modern warfare the defense has a great advantage over the attack: no attack succeeds unless the attackers secure surprise or have at least a 3-to-1 preponderance over the attacked. This does not mean merely in men (in the last war some attacks failed with a 16-to-1 preponderance in men), but in fire power. Says...
Ulysses John Lupien, Jr. '39 will marry Miss Natalie Nichols of Chelmsford a week from today. Lupien, recently signed by the Red Sox, was captain of the '38 Varsity baseball and the '39 Varsity basketball teams...