Word: commandism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Military Government officer in command of Buchenwald Concentration Camp during the final months before it became part of the Russian occupied territory, I was much interested in the trial of SS Guardsman Gerhard Sommer...
...officer with the job of welding marines, paratroops, Navymen into a spear-point of U.S. diplomacy in one of the U.S.'s weirdest-ever military missions: the Navy's four-star Admiral James Lemuel Holloway Jr., 60. CINCNELM, Commander in Chief, U.S. Naval Forces, Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean; CINCSPECOMME, Commander in Chief, Specified Command, Middle East. Said he: "One might think it would be frustrating to a military man to have such a role-lacking vigorous military action-but I do not think so. The U.S. responded to a request for assistance from the legal government of Lebanon...
...marines and 3,100 Army airborne troops, installed on a secure beachhead equipped to shoot anything from obsolete Mi rifles to atomic-rocket projectiles; the 76-ship, 35,000-man Sixth Fleet offshore, whose Skyraiders could take an A-bomb from Beirut to Moscow; the Air Force Tactical Air Command's 200-plane composite task force-Douglas B66 and Martin 6-57 light jet bombers. North American F-iooD fighter-bombers and McDonnell F-IOI fighters-at nearby Adana, Turkey, an atomic-and conventional-armed reminder of the mighty, miles-away, 1,500-plus thermonuclear bombers of Strategic...
...spills over into pomposity. In civvies he sports a Malacca cane. He is something of a connoisseur of wines. He interlards his conversation with phrases out of Dickens or Thackeray, loves to write what he calls "erudite letters" (favorite word: vouchsafe). "If he will ever be known for any command, it will be for his command of the English language," said one officer who served on his staff, and Holloway adds to the impression when he tells his officers, in a neo-British accent, to "go bird-dog this thing," or "go with the speed of a deer...
...that." And through steady performance aboard destroyers, cruisers and battleships and as a staff flag lieutenant in the Navy's lean, between-the-wars years-for eleven years, from 1922 to 1933, he stayed a lieutenant-he built up a steady professionalism that led him to his first command, the destroyer Hopkins. "I made a beauty out of the Hopkins," he said. "I brought her up in appearance and gunnery. A friend of mine, the first lieutenant of the Langley [the Navy's first aircraft carrier], helped...