Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dour realists in the British War Office and the U.S. War Department growled that Pantelleria was a lesson not only in the possibilities of air power, but in the enormous effort required to apply that, or any other, means of war. Sicily, they said, would take an effort many, many times that needed for Pantelleria. Italy and Germany would be a Sicilian campaign multiplied a thousand times...
...Second Front. Behind this conception of massed effort, and the great effort necessary to prepare it, is a fundamental tenet of British and U.S. planning: no second front, in the Mediterranean or elsewhere, will be attempted until it is almost certain to succeed. The Russians may think this conception is over-timid and wrong. Others, like Airman de Seversky, think it overlooks opportunities to shorten the war by sharper, more imaginative strategy. But, for better or for worse, it is the adopted conception...
...offensive from Britain is speeding the day when the final effort will be certain of success. But the High Commands do not depend on air offensives. Neither the intensification of the air campaign nor the first sea-&-land steps toward Germany's inner fortress will mean that the basic conception has been altered or abandoned. In Ottawa, Commissioner MacDonald presumably had these facts in mind when he said...
...long as overoptimism slackened the U.S. war effort, the initiative could be a handicap...
What these events portend-a final, all-out attempt to knock out the Red Army, or a more limited effort to weaken it-the world may not know for weeks. In the meantime, the Russians will look to the Germans' other front, the front where Russia's Allies had yet to move this week...