Word: defenseless
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...attacked the old Chinese capital of Peking in 1937, swarms of Chinese limped to the city wall, dazed, half-naked, riddled with wounds. Hidden under the wall was the only first-aid station in the city. Their case was typical. For the 450,000,000 souls of swarming, near-defenseless China, there were only 9,000 adequately trained doctors. Most of them were trained in Britain, Europe or the U. S. Their colleague-competitors were native medicine men, who used such ancient practices as "acupuncture"-sticking patients with scores of hot & cold needles to let out evil spirits...
...time it looked as though the few British planes in air might be able to turn the trick. Four Stukas crumpled under their fire. The Ju. 87Bs-dreadful when unopposed, but so slow and defenseless in air battle that they had proved useless over Britain-broke for home...
Graziani, who made his fierce reputation by fighting defenseless natives in Africa, was in a fair way to lose his lustre in the Libyan sands. To excuse himself, he last week issued a report to II Duce which was, to military historians, an amazing mixture of accusation, frankness and bombast...
...their mind's eye his visitors could see attack planes, spitting death at the horsemen on the crowded slope, or diving at them during their brief massing before they could dismount and take cover; or enemy scout cars and tanks, crawling across the bondocks toward flowing (and temporarily defenseless) horsemen...
...captured, was hard-boiled Ettore Muti, who resigned as Secretary of the Fascist Party to get actively into the fighting. After several days he turned up alive, whereupon Mussolini gave him a silver medal (his ninth) for organizing and leading an October long-range bombing raid on the defenseless Bahrein Archipelago oil fields...