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Tactical Purposes. Hitherto Russia had used these officers in a tactical way to issue statements and make broadcasts against Hitler in order to disrupt morale within the Reich, and especially in the German army. What Marshal Stalin promised at Yalta was that he would not reinstate these officers in their old jobs at the head of an unpurged Wehrmacht...
...Roer was the toughest water line in front of the Rhine - the key barrier in this sector which both sides clearly regarded as crucial. The Germans had fought viciously to prevent the Americans even from reaching the muddy shore, and they could be expected to try even harder to disrupt a crossing...
...Just how do the northern lights disrupt the world's electric communications...
...electric chair stacks all the cards against its occupant. It uses moderate voltage (about 2,000) and current (less than eight amperes), and contacts moistened with salt water, to lower the occupant's resistance. This virtually assures instant death, because moderate voltage is best calculated to disrupt the cycle of the human heartbeat...
...Visible War. In the first four weeks, the robots killed 2,752, injured 8,000. Still, the robot's power to disrupt was greater than its power to kill; the rate of casualties during the worst periods of the 1940-41 blitz was twice as high...