Word: disrupter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British, their strategy was to maul Rommel as they advanced, to lash at him in unexpected places-and they probably had a surprise up their sleeve. At best, superior Allied air power would be able to disrupt superior Axis ground power and give Allied infantry, artillery and tanks a fighting chance to turn the tide. At worst, the British would be routed, hurled out of Alexandria and Suez, and the Allies driven from the whole Mediterranean theater...
Strategy of Diversion. The concentration of U-boats in American waters revealed the Axis strategy: so to disrupt shipping that naval strength would be diverted from its more vital convoy duties...
...Inevitably . . . this enormous program is dislocating industry, agriculture and finance. It is disrupting, and will continue to disrupt, the normal manner of life of every American...
...finds the key to its irrational pattern in "the vertical conflicts in which nations fight one another, and the horizontal conflicts which are ideological, political, social and economic." These latter "transcend boundaries," for no nation, including the Axis powers, is free of them. "They overlap purely national allegiances, and disrupt the national fronts." Author de Sales warns his readers that this picture "is anything but simple. . . . The vertical conflicts are frequently in apparent or real opposition to the horizontal ones...
...taxation and compulsory saving: taxation through a graduated downward extension of the income tax, compulsory saving through forced investment in public bonds. A jobs for the experts, such a program is primarily for economic control, not money raising. Effectively pursued it may save the nation, anything less will disrupt our entire economy...