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Replacements, shifts and even some mysterious deaths among the Chinese military have provided further evidence of Hua's continuing struggle to put down opposition to his post-Mao regime. Last month eight generals were shifted from garrison to garrison like so many foot soldiers or pawns on a Chinese chessboard. One Hua supporter, General Fu Ch'ung-pi, was appointed commander of the Peking garrison?a highly strategic position...
From the time of Caesar's Commentaries onward, military historians have tended to treat armed combat as a means to larger political ends or the chessboard on which generals tested strategy. There are, to be sure, shelves of How-I-Suffered-in-the-War stories. But Keegan wanted something more, a broad, systematic answer to the question that most bothered his Sandhurst students: "What is it like to be in a battle...
...unlikely that Nixon was too gravely disturbed by the evidence of South Korean subversion, even if the object of the activities was the United States government. It is all too easy to conjure the nightmare of two despots like Presidents Nixon and Park, plotting over a global chessboard--with their own countries as sacrificial pawns...
...indignity. The essential concern is with that "entire generation's concept of sport." A fan, an owner or a player who comes to be lieve a pitcher has the right to injure a batter may as well believe that Bobby Fischer has a right to kick over the chessboard when he is threatened, or that order itself is an outmoded idea...
...destroyed the chivalric picture of conflict. That picture survived in only two arenas. One was the sky, where the Royal Flying Corps, the "knights of the air" in their gyring Sopwiths, preserved the image of man-to-man conflict. The other was Arabia. On that exotic chessboard-as described by Lawrence and imagined by thousands of readers who would never go there-battle regained its heraldic quality. Despite the thirst, flies and scorching heat, "the march became rather splendid and barbaric ... the wild mass of twelve hundred bouncing camels of the bodyguard, packed as closely as they could move...