Word: forethoughtful
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...said, there was a discussion of the Battle of Gettysburg and a bright young man stated all the moves that should have been made by General Lee and by General Meade. The old professor said: "Any schoolboy's afterthought is worth more than the greatest general's forethought...
...they would make friends and influence people where the U.S. sorely needed friends. As the London Economist summed up: "They should be offered the resources of Western technique in making their deserts once more blossom like the rose. Western democracy claims that it stands for a synthesis of enterprise, forethought and trusteeship. It will never have a better chance to prove its case...
...possible a bare six months ago. Britain's tricky weather, its restricted airfield space, the short nights of summer and the foggy ones of winter-these and other limitations had once seemed formidable enough to prevent a single 1,000-plane raid. It will take less ingenuity, aggressive forethought and experimental courage to double and treble the 1,000 than it had taken to get off the first...
...they fought and worked with coolness and precision at their staff and supply work, they must have thought of the American women on Luzon. Many of them, perhaps all of them, were now in the areas held by the Jap. Army & Navy men could thank their Government's forethought in ordering service families out of the islands. All were gone, except Douglas MacArthur's wife and three-year-old son, when war struck...
...British did not have long-range fighters to accompany bombers on distant daylight raids into Germany. Nor did they let their African successes blind them to the dangers of invasion. "We must all be prepared," said Winston Churchill, "to meet gas attacks, parachute attacks and glider attacks with constancy, forethought and practiced skill...