Word: goltz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tactics are not to be confused with strategy. The German military writer Field Marshal General Kolmar von der Goltz, in On Military Leadership, draws the distinction: "Strategy concerns itself with those large-scale measures which serve to bring the forces into play at the decisive point under the most favorable conditions possible, while tactics relates to what is done in the engagement itself." The British military writer Sir Edward Hamley says: "The theater of war is the province of strategy. The field of battle is the province of tactics...
...wisecracker, gay, with a talent for dramatics. But he stuck to soldiering faithfully, gained his lieutenancy in time for World War I. By bravery at Longwy and the Meuse, by luck at Verdun, he rose and survived to become a staff officer under Count Rüdiger von der Goltz, who in 1918 was sent to help Baron Mannerheim win Finland's independence...
That Falkenhorst did not brilliantly distinguish himself then is suggested by the fact that he came out of his first war only a captain. In planning the Finland expedition, as General von der Goltz's operations officer, he learned about embarking troops, transporting them overseas, disembarking them for action in rough, cold country, effecting naval cooperation to feed and supply them...
...undersigned who 20 years ago was fighting for the liberty of Finland under Field Marshal Mannerheim, as a staff member of the German auxiliary force of the late General von der Goltz, takes the liberty of pointing to the fact that much could be done to relieve the fighting troops next summer by supplying them with Rubbing Flit in individual pocket containers. Worse than the cold of the winter season is the mosquito plague in the eastern lake district of Finland, which is liable to enhance the sufferings of war and even to bias the morale of the best educated...
Meanwhile 12,000 Germans under Gen eral Graf Rudiger von der Goltz had landed in Finland. They took Hanko for the Whites, moved on to Helsinki, pushing the Reds back toward the Karelian Isthmus. The Whites took Vüpuri, the Reds fled into Russia, and on May 16, 1918, Mannerheim rode into Helsinki in triumph...