Word: clausewitzes
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...They had miscalculated and might still be miscalculating Russian strength. They had overestimated their own air power, had not foreseen the emergence of British-American air power. They had been caught short by their weaknesses in southern Europe. Adolf Hitler might well ponder the words of Prussian Karl von Clausewitz, father of modern strategy...
...history sets us a great example. One hundred and thirty years ago, when German troops still stood on Russian soil as enemies, it was precisely from Russia that the finest sons of the Germans-Stein, Arndt, Clausewitz, Yorck and others-appealed to the conscience of the German people over the heads of their traitors, the German rulers, and called upon them to wage a liberation...
...truce was a Lewis masterpiece: a piece of tactics no Clausewitz could have improved on. The President had given fair warning that he would address the miners and the nation on Sunday night. Sunday morning John Lewis and three henchmen slipped into Washington, worked out the truce with Harold Ickes, now his boss as Solid Fuels Coordinator. Lewis entrained for New York. Naturally the truce could not be announced until the miners' policy committee had met. And somehow the policy committee deliberated just long enough. Twenty minutes before the President went on the air, John Lewis announced the truce...
...though the political opinions of Sun Tzu, Alexander, Napoleon, Clausewitz, Foertsch may be repugnant, their military ideas are valuable. So with Fuller: every reader must be his own censor...
...Dutch East Indies (pop. 70,000,000) were defended by only 20,000 white troops and 50,000 poorly trained natives, so the Japanese simply dashed in, barely noticing their casualties. Said Prussian Militarist Carl von Clausewitz in 1812: "On no account should we overlook the moral effect of the rapid running assault. It hardens the advancing soldier against danger, while the stationary soldier loses his presence of mind...