Word: maginot
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ourselves without a greater naval capability," says Hart. "That may require taking money away from other services." Hart downgrades the idea of preparing for a massive conventional war with the Soviet Union, which is a standing assignment for U.S. and NATO armies. "Our land forces must shift from the Maginot Line mentality to maneuver warfare," he argues. "Our Army should be more like the Marines." Hart would try to change military thinking by rewarding and advancing officers who are expert in tactics and innovation, not program managers. "We've got to outsmart the enemy," says the Senator...
...frequently and are hard to handle; of following a kind of Maginot Line "firepower attrition" strategy rather than preparing for a war of maneuver; of training officers in the techniques of bureaucratic management rather than the history and art of warfare. Their central point: the Pentagon can spend every dollar the Government can tax, borrow or print, and still lose battles with the Soviets?or even the Iraqis?unless it changes its ways...
...easier to picture Mickey Spillane sitting there with a bunch of his corporate-thugs and coming up with the idea for a whole series of pulp thrillers. Maybe there's some meaning lurking in the fact that we were gushing over Sinatra while the French were building the Maginot Line. It doesn't really matter much. If Camus had seen Bob Rafelson's latest version of Postman, it would have inspired him to join the merchant marine...
...believe that we are as oblivious of these staggering innovations in the art of war as the French and the British in their time had been of the German strategy of the armored Blitzkrieg. There is a striking parallel between their faith in passive defenses anchored on the Maginot Line, and ours in a "sufficient" deterrent. The skill of the strategist consists of neutralizing the strategy of the enemy. All the available evidence suggests that the primary goal of Soviet strategic thinking and deployments for the past two decades has been to find ways of circumventing our nuclear deterrent...