Word: isolateed
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He had told his hearers to get out their maps, and his references to the global war reached to the four quarters of the earth. But with his genius for simplifying a big subject, he made the war seem simple. "The object of the Nazis and the Japanese is to...
Germany and Japan cannot in one convulsion seize all the great land and human masses, all the vast concentrations of productive power which oppose the Axis. But the Germans and the Japanese can try to isolate and choke the world's greatest land mass, Eurasia, where the greatest masses...
"...We must begin the great task that is before us by abandoning once and for all the illusion that we can ever again isolate ourselves from the rest of humanity. In these past few years-and, most violently, in the past few days-we have learned a terrible lesson.
Enveloping Moves. In the first phase of battle the British sent columns shoot ing into the desert to isolate the various Axis cantonments and fortresses. Each column had as its objective certain vital highways and desert tracks. Three of them had as their eventual rendezvous a key point on the...
Blocking Moves. Fighting next settled down to a duel of attrition. The British stuck by their original bet-that if they could isolate the Germans east of Tobruk, they would eventually wear them down. The German tactic was to join all forces into one phalanx of machinery (south of Gambut...