Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prove this latest outrage by Germany to have been as rash as it was wicked." But by this time, General von Falkenhorst had some 80,000 picked troops in Norway. Most of them were, like himself, Austrians - skilled mountain fighters (jager) at home on skis, practiced in the guerrilla type of warfare waged so effectively by the Finns in rough, forested country. At least one division was motorized, and Correspondent Stowe, who scored world beats reporting their landings along the Oslo Fjord, told of seeing field artillery...
...next stand. The eastern end of the Mannerheim Line would eventually have to be abandoned also, with that part of the Finnish Army probably retreating to join the forces north of Lake Laatokka. Apparently the Finns hoped, by thus splitting their Isthmus army, to harass the Russian rear with guerrilla tactics, keep the Russians too busy to organize a drive on Helsinki before spring...
Taking his spoils to Polotovsk, Budenny issued a call which became a watchword in Russia: "Proletarians, to horse!" As leader of a guerrilla troop, for a while he fought everybody who came his way. Living in forests, his horsemen emerged at night to fall upon Denikin's men or upon freebooters like themselves. By August 1919, Denikin had conquered the Ukraine and was only 200 miles from Moscow. Trotsky did not even know that Budenny existed, but it was Budenny who stopped Denikin, at Kursk. The Bolshevists quickly recognized him, began to capitalize on his spreading fame. The rumor...
...Boss Stalin. He survived all the purges because of 1) his popularity with the people, and 2) his value to the Army. He was made a Field Marshal in 1935, Commander of the Moscow District in 1937, Vice-Commissar of Defense last year. Although a past master of guerrilla warfare, when he cannot fight guerrilla-style he adopts the tactics of Confederate General Nathan Bedford ("Git-Thar-Fust-With-The-Mostest-Men") Forrest and relies on frontal assault. Military experts predicted last month, when he was first reported in charge of the offensive, that he would recklessly risk tens...
China's famed guerrillas were not as active as the year before, but they were still busy as termites. Last week a Japanese spokesman said that last month there were no less than 295 clashes in the guerrilla-infested area just south of Shanghai. But the guerrillas were fighting a losing fight: their supply lines were failing, and Japanese reprisals were becoming more efficient and severe...