Word: flanked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...northern border, German troops were poised; German agents already had infiltrated his country thoroughly, with his own connivance. On his sea frontiers, in the air, in nearby Africa, the Allies he once mocked had grown terrifyingly powerful. Even his meekest & mildest neighbor, Portugal, nestling in Spain's Atlantic flank, was holding grim and elaborate civil-defense exercises, and rumor ran fast that she might be about to join the Allies. If, in the logic of events, Germany declared war on Portugal, the squeeze would fall on Franco. He knows, better than most, that the Allies owe him no gratitude...
...Gilberts. Marines sneaked into Nanumea, which lies only 500 miles southwest of Japan's Gilbert Islands bases. Their landing was unopposed, put U.S. troops close in under the flank of Japan's long eastern sea frontier...
...Adriatic. Above that barrier the land sloped down to the Po Valley, and beyond towered the Alps. Napoleon once had hacked a way across that rampart of nature, via Tarvis and Klagenfurt, toward Vienna. But it was formidable. Rather than a direct road to Germany, Italy might be a flank for other bridgeheads. > Italy leads to southern France. Because the Alpine passes narrow and drop steeply on the Italian side of the border, it is a military axiom that France is not readily assaulted from Italy. But from ports on the peninsula's west coast and from newly...
From India, Lord Louis Mountbatten could direct a campaign against Burma. His objectives: 1) a strong position in the rear flank of Japan's southern empire; 2) the Burma Road, over which supplies could be punched through to China; 3) possibly Malaya and Singapore, which could be exploited again as a naval base from which to harry the Jap lines to The Netherlands East Indies...
...Russia had caustic words to say against General Draja Mihailovich; the Polish Government in Exile (with which Russia broke relations five months ago); the Allied Military Government; neutral Turkey (by insuring Germany's Balkan flank it is prolonging...