Word: cautions
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...rumors and reports poured in from the neutral countries near Germany, from the Reich itself, from occupied territory. The message they seemed to spell out: crisis is bringing on important changes in the German High Command and civil government. Expert observers in London studied the evidence with interest and caution, offered an interested and cautious verdict: "Could...
There were four principal reasons for this seeming shyness: 1) the Japanese Navy was busy with its traditional mission of building and maintaining supply lines, 2) attrition of Japanese strength and additions to U.S. strength, in both naval and merchant vessels, had finally clamped caution on to Japanese helms, 3) the new Commander of the Japanese Combined Fleet, Admiral Mineichi Koga, was a careful man, and 4) the flexibility of Allied strategy had the Japs guessing about the best way of defending their home islands...
...favored Lend-Lease, military preparedness, decided before Pearl Harbor that the U.S. would have to go to war. His ambiguous record as a Presidential candidate in 1940 was dictated by 1) his emotional distaste for war ("I suppose at heart I am really a pacifist") and 2) political caution...
...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...