Word: diversionism
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All these facts slim, faultlessly uniformed Somervell knew as he made his urbane, Southern-drawling way around Britain, wearing out officers and civilians by the smooth pace of his 17-hour days. No important military man in the British Isles can have doubted that of all the U.S. Army-Navy...
Longer Hauls. In 1929 the average freight movement was 317 miles; last year, 367; this year, it is estimated, well above 400. Many a roaring train whistling through the night is on a transcontinental journey with West Coast lumber, canned goods and foodstuffs formerly shipped through the Panama Canal. Westbound...
How? British officialdom tends to think of a second front in terms of an all-out, huge-scale offensive requiring forces comparable to those of the main German armies. But the immediate purpose of the second front-diversion from the Russian front-could be accomplished with a lesser effort, involving...
Rommel's push might be the southern prong of an Axis drive for the Middle East, with the north prong aimed at the Caucasus and perhaps a central prong from Greece and the Aegean Islands through Turkey. If so, the capture of Tobruk would be just an opening puncture...
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.