Word: defenders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Orient. The Russians alone are advancing, and they can hardly be expected to continue without support. Unless we have the courage and the initiative to give up passive defense for active offense we shall very shortly find ourselves executing a strategic retreat from Cambridge, and retiring to defend Belmont Hill...
...France, the oceans for the U.S.), the classic seapower doctrines of Admiral Mahan. (One chapter title: "Mahan Was Wrong!") France fell because the French and British generals were gripped by the "defense myth." So fell Singapore, Hong Kong and the Philippines. Kernan pointed the lesson: by trying to defend everywhere, the Allies had held nowhere...
Attack from the South. If Java falls, Australia will thus remain an all-essential base for present operations in the far Pacific. Desolate, vulnerable northern Australia would be hard to defend against determined Japanese attack. But Australia's Prime Minister John Curtin was speaking for as well as to the U.S. last week when he said that southern Australia must be held. There the U.S. can amass land and air forces; there it can base the naval forces necessary for an attempt to recapture the Indies and drive on toward Malaya and Japan from the south...
...sailed up the Medway to within 30 miles of London; Vice Admiral Pieter Pieterzoon Hein, a splendid buccaneer who earned fame, plunder and death at the hands of Dunkirk pirates. These and other 17th-Century seadogs won for the Dutch the empire whose rich remnants Conrad Helfrich had to defend...
...Last Shore. Java's long, open northern shore along the Java Sea has no "logical points of attack." It is all vulnerable, replete with accessible ports and easy landing places. Admiral Helfrich's task was now to defend that shore by keeping the Japs away from...