Word: derringers
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Low Intensity. For a career officer, playing it safe is the way to get promotion in today's Army of organization men, perhaps even more than in the past. The derring-do Green Berets, for example, are often derisively referred to in the service as "green beanies," and looked...
Landing, yes; invasion, no?although the confusion and panic engendered by the illusion of invasion was precisely the aim of the U.S. planners. In one of the most daring and meticulously rehearsed operations of the long war, a fleet of U.S. helicopters was skimming into North Viet Nam at treetop...
Flying in Eastern Europe, in short, requires infinite patience and a certain sense of derring-do. For those who risk it, TIME'S Mader offers this advice: "Fly Eastern European only when there is no choice, and then with CSA if possible. Plan appointments no earlier than 24 hours...
*The French-born brothers preyed on British, Spanish and French shipping in the Gulf of Mexico and sold their booty in the markets of New Orleans. Though the derring duo occasionally raided an American ship, by and large they were fiercely loyal to their adopted country. When the British approached...
Everybody loves a spy-unless, of course, he happens to be real. Then nobody likes him or his dirty work, and fewer still want to tell about it. Partly as a result, James Bond is a household word while practically nobody knows the names and numbers of the actual players...