Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This will to victory-where is it supposed to reside? Again and again the free world's generals, politicians and journalists have complained that the enemy troops show their "fanaticism" while the anti-Communist troops do not. "Fanaticism" is a misleading word. In combat such as that at Dienbienphu there is no difference between the courage needed by the attacker and by the defender...
...Castries: "The Viets are everywhere. The situation is very grave. The combat is confused and goes on all about. I feel the end is approaching, but we will fight to the finish...
During World War II Burr served as a naval air combat intelligence officer...
Resplendent in his uniform, with gold wings and four rows of ribbons, he looked the very picture of the distinguished career officer as he stepped into Marine Corps headquarters for the verdict. Minutes later he knew that, while cleared of all charges, his career as a combat commander was over...
...Schwable case, there was a further question: Could the Marines give combat command in the future to a career officer who had cracked? Could it expect him to give his men the kind of leadership the Marines demand? The commandant's answer : Colonel Schwable henceforth should be assigned only "duties of a type making minimum demands . . . upon the elements of unblemished personal example and leadership...