Word: commando
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Some 40,000 Red soldiers launched their attack on a broad front along the Day River, a southern outlet of the big Red River. They stormed French blockhouses, surrounded French outposts. Fearing a major Communist offensive, the French rushed patrols and commando units from other parts of the delta to block the Communists. For 24 hours both sides fought bitterly; then the Communists were driven off. But their tactical plan went on working; next day the French found that, while they were concentrating on the battle, Communist rice-gathering bands had penetrated 20 miles into the delta. The French settled...
Each week the Korean war was costing the U.S. 1,300 casualties, and still there was no plan for victory. Cautiously keeping contact with the enemy, U.N. forces found indisputable evidence that he was readying an offensive, and did their best to disrupt it by air and commando assaults (see WAR IN ASIA). But the barriers reared by the United Nations and the U.S. State Department stood between the allied air and sea forces and the most vulnerable enemy areas; they were not permitted to strike across the Manchurian border at his bases, or to cut into...
...there is a good-and growing-opportunity for the Free Chinese to stab at the coast with Commando-type raids, keeping the Reds militarily off balance, and tremendously encouraging the mainland guerrillas...
...ease with which small, fast-moving enemy units wiggled through U.S. lines in Korea gave the Army an idea. Last week it began doing something about it. In the winter-stubbled fields at Ft. Benning, Ga., a special school had been established to train tough, company-sized commando groups. As a starter, the Army said it would make up four companies of parachutists, give them intensive training in amphibious assault, infiltration, use of enemy weapons, sabotage and guerrilla warfare. As the five officers and no men of each company complete their training, they will be shipped out to become...
When Britain went to war with the Boers in 1899, the bookish lawyer became a commando general whom the British soon learned to respect. When the war was over, Smuts used both toughness and brilliance to persuade the British to give South Africa dominion status, and Britain's former enemy turned into Britain's enduring friend. Many a Boer called him "Slim [sly] Jannie" thereafter...