Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...over the Black Sea to Moscow. It is uniquely fitted to move in on crises ranging from local riot to local war without setting off a big global bang. "We can exert flexible force tailored to fit any situation," says Vice Admiral Charles Randall ("Cat") Brown, 57, the weathered combat-carrier veteran who has commanded the Sixth Fleet since last August. "We can raise our voice without shouting. And without firing a shot we can create terrific repercussions...
...speedily reboarded its marines and beached equipment overnight and headed east. Soon its destroyer groups and attack transports were slipping into Haifa, Gaza and Alexandria to pick up U.S. citizens and U.N. workers while the sleek grey carriers maneuvered in battle formations below the horizon. At one point, combat-ready marines were all set to storm through to Cairo just in case the Egyptians tried to prevent Americans from leaving, but the marines relaxed when the Egyptians did not interfere with the evacuation...
Under radically different tables of organization and equipment still being drawn up, the regiments of all 18 divisions during the next two years will be reformed into five smaller combat groups (pent) that can group quickly for major-division operations and disperse as quickly to escape atomic retaliation (-omic). To increase mobility, heavy artillery and rockets will be reassigned to corps or armies...
...ultimate consequences of his action could only be assessed in the future. But the effect upon European political and military alignments was already stupendous. He had actually lowered, by some 80 divisions, the combat potential of the world's most menacing army by showing that its colonial conscripts could no longer be relied upon. The Kremlin's current irresolution owes much to him. So does Communism's great loss of prestige around the world. Bulganin and Khrushchev, because of him, could not now expect to be received at Buckingham Palace or make the same kind of laughing-boy junket through...
...Colombian Temper. The clash at Praga, hot, fierce, and fought to the bitter end, was typical of this strange, confused, nearly meaningless war. Its causes are rooted deep in Colombian history and temperament, a striking national indifference to death and lust for combat going back to the battles and matings of the fearless Spanish conquistadors and the warlike native Chibcha Indians. Since Colombia became independent in 1819, the bloodshed has come mainly from Liberals fighting Conservatives, often in protest against a political defeat...