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...engaged in a frontier struggle with the Japanese. Zhukov applied classic cavalry tactics to armored warfare: he massed his tanks, smashed a hole through the center of the Japanese Sixth Army, and bloodily crushed its flanks between his fanning-out Panzers and advancing infantry. This little-known action helped deter the Japanese from attacking the Soviet rear in 1941, leaving Stalin free to bring his Siberian troops westward to the defense of Moscow...
...Until 1960, U.S. supremacy in strategic air power will continue to deter the Russians from risking all-out war. SAC's nuclear bombers, the British reason, are already in a position to cripple the Soviet Union, whereas the Red air force is still incapable of knocking...
...truster has long followed the policy that his grandfather, John D. Rockefeller Sr., laid down for philanthropic works: "Don't coddle; stimulate." At 32, Nelson went to President F. D. Roosevelt to persuade him of the need for economic and cultural development of Latin America in order to deter south-of-the-border flirtations with Naziism and fascism...
...week's end Butler charged again. He took notice of the party line by saying: "I will never villify the President, as Senator McCarthy has this week." But he went on: "All the roars of Chairman Hall and other Republicans will not deter me from calling attention to the failures of the President...
...recent years, the U.S. had hardly any air defense. On the sound military theory that offense is the best defense, the U.S. entrusted its safety to the Strategic Air Command under General Curtis LeMay. The theory was, and is, that SAC's poised heavy-bomber punch would either deter the Communists from attacking, or destroy Communist production centers if they did. Now, for the first time, the Reds may have strength enough to knock out SAC bases with a surprise blow. The U.S., unable to retaliate, would be doomed to destruction or surrender...