Word: commander
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Certainly we did not employ our most modern weapons in the Korean conflict, yet five months after it began, that conflict was expanded into a larger clash between Red Chinese forces and the United Nations Command. Clearly, not using our most modern weapons did not prevent the expansion of the Korean conflict. The best way to prevent a local war from expanding into a total war is to end the local war quickly and decisively...
...French who first proposed the German general. With the first five West German divisions due to join NATO forces this year, they saw that the Germans would be entitled to fill some of the higher spots in NATO's chain of command. Having pulled out most of their own NATO troops to fight in Algeria, leaving only about a division behind, they were also aware that they could claim few top NATO posts for themselves. Accordingly, when two of their generals vacated NATO commands last year, the French suggested that a German be named com mander of NATO...
...Commanding the flight from the lead plane was 50-year-old Major General Archie J. Old Jr., who coordinated the trip, kept in constant radio contact direct with LeMay's headquarters in Omaha. Texas-born Archie Old, like Curt LeMay, is no West Pointer, was an auto dealer with a reserve commission in the Air Corps until he was called to active duty in September 1940. Squarejawed, blue-eyed, thoroughly able, he rose with phenomenal speed in wartime to command the Eighth Air Force's 96th Bomb Group at a ripe 36, led the first shuttle-bomb raid...
Indiana. Balding, bow-tied Republican Harold Willis Handley, 47, who was lieutenant governor when Archenemy George Craig held the statehouse reins, firmly took command of Indiana, called for "enlightened conservatism," sharply criticized federal aid to education ("The Hoosier will not tolerate nationalization of his schools"). Basking in Handley's new glow: Indiana's anti-Craig Senator William Jenner, who gave Handley a couple of helpful hands to office...
...failure? The obvious answer is: the Union Army. But there are many who insist that the answer is more subtle, that the blame lay in General Lee's constant concern for the feelings of his subordinates-a concern so deeply rooted that it diluted his ability to command...