Word: deployments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prepared to place large armies in Italy and to deploy a wide, active fighting front against the enemy . . . and to maintain the offensive . . . with increasing weight and vigor, if need be throughout the autumn and winter and beyond...
They soon found him. In the rainy darkness isolated machine guns began to stutter. Six or eight miles away in the inland Mubo area, Australian jungle fighters had begun to deploy their patrols toward the shore. Two days later they joined forces with the Americans at Nassau...
With an eye on the Clausewitz theory that time and space are the underlying factors that govern strategy, Commander in Chief General Sir Claude John Ayre Auchinleck had taken plenty of time and space to prepare and deploy his forces for battle...
...German advance force ran up their flag and piled up stacks of abandoned Allied equipment, Nazi warplanes still winged high over, out to sea, looking for the fugitive enemy to punish him some more. He had escaped in his boats by night, after pretending by day to deploy for rallies and counterattacks. This maneuver was directed by the British Army's redheaded commander, Major General Bernard Paget, 51, son of the late Bishop of Oxford. That same spring afternoon in London, Prime Minister Chamberlain, breaking the news to Parliament that Britain's arms south of Trondheim were completely...
...that they left their wounded to freeze to death where they fell. The Finns retreated cautiously, carrying their wounded with them, for to Finland's tiny army every man was precious. How many men the Russians used, nobody knew. It did not matter; they had all they could deploy and replacements for all who fell. From the other fronts they had to defend, the Finns could spare a bare 100,000 to man their Mannerheim forts and entrenchments-and they had no reserves. As the second week of battle drew to a close General Harald Ohquist's Karelian...