Word: commandism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before him now lies Britain's top field command: commander in chief of the Army of the Rhine. A lean, austere martinet who characterizes himself as "a professional soldier ... no politician," Templer had expected no fond farewells in Malaya. Yet all the way to the airport from his gubernatorial mansion, his Rolls Royce had been mobbed by cheering, affectionate Asians: Malays, Chinese and Indians. From the turbaned representatives of nine Malayan potentates, Templer got a silver cigar box. On his wrist he wore a bamboo bracelet, given by the aborigines of far-off Negri Sembilan, to ward off evil...
...police dog. "I lay there without breathing," he said, "and for some reason the dog trotted off without barking." Cogny scrambled across the barbed wire, across Bavaria and back to Vichy France. But Vichy surrendered to the Germans and Italians in November 1942, and Cogny lost his second army command...
...Vigor in Command. Cogny was liberated in April 1945, and at last, in 1946, he got his chance. Marshal de Lattre de Tassigny noticed Cogny's work on the French Army Reorganization Commission and called him over: "You! You there! I don't know you, but I want you to work for me. I like the way you think." Cogny rapidly became full colonel, regimental commander, executive secretary to the Defense Minister. De Lattre took Cogny to Indo-China, to London and Washington (where Cogny learned to speak English well). Cogny became De Lattre's disciple. After...
France named Cogny to command Indo-China's northern front with its crucial Red River Delta. Cogny, at 48, was a general...
...Hanoi for two days, Ely inspected the wary defenses and conferred with IndoChina's Commanding General Henri Navarre and the northern-front commander, General Rene Cogny. During these days the generals outlined a new command strategy: 1) Concentrate! Cogny must pull back from isolated forts, must rally for modern battle at selected centers in the plains; 2) Reinforce! Cogny must have at least two fresh divisions, about 30,000 men, to prop up the delta's teetering 70,000-man garrison. Ely was also reportedly ready to recommend Navarre's recall. Said one French officer when...