Word: cautionings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...purposes have been in large measure accomplished-but only in the face of an exasperating rear-guard action by RFC officials who are still fighting the war with peacetime red tape, corporate technicalities, and . . . unnecessary caution. . . . All this, and I want to emphasize it, is bureaucracy at its worst; it is utterly inexcusable in a nation...
...have some words of caution to say to our own people. First of all, great military risks are dominated by the risks and turns of the future. I know of no certainty in war, and that is particularly true of amphibious war. Therefore any mood of overconfidence should be severely repressed. . . . All large and amphibious operations, especially if they require the cooperation of two or more countries, require long months of organization, with refinements and complexities hitherto unknown. In war all impulses, impatient desires and sudden flashes of military instinct cannot hasten the course of events...
...victory from the air -"I think it proper to express a word of caution against hasty conclusions or impromptu conceptions. ... I am convinced more & more each day that only by a proper combination of war-making means can we achieve victory in the shortest possible time and with the greatest economy in life. . . . Your adversary may be hammered to his knees by bombing, but he will recover unless the knockout blow is delivered by the ground army...
...With the caution of a baby-show judge, Correspondent Ernie Pyle radioed from Africa that he has found a couple of faults in the Army's favorite vehicle: the jeep...
...Caution ... Jack Gudgel .. that's a riveter you hear, not Radio Gode...