Word: marshals
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According to First Class Marshal Krishnan N. Subrahmanian ’03, contact with Ferrell was established via a friend of the committee, B. Aidan Flanagan ’03, who knew a Ferrell acquaintance...
Commencement plans are moving forward despite the absence of the administrator who usually orchestrates the events that cap Harvard’s school year. The position of University Marshal has been vacant since Richard M. Hunt stepped down last summer...
...don’t have a Marshal at this point in time and we may or may not have one by commencement,” Reardon said...
Saddam owns a poor record for generalship, and U.S. officials expected him to lop off the south as lost in the war's first hours. Instead Iraq's newly titled Staff Field Marshal Saddam played to his limited strengths by deploying highly motivated loyalist paramilitaries to the towns and cities where they could help him keep his grip on power. Saddam carefully chose forces that could handle double duty, tying down coalition troops with a stubborn stream of skirmishes while compelling local populations to stay loyal...
...plan that's on track," Richard Myers, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, kept saying last week, and in the broadest sense, he is probably right. But as 19th century Prussian Field Marshal Helmuth von Moltke famously said, "No battle plan ever survives contact with the enemy." Shifting circumstances on the ground last week posed a test for the Administration's skill at adaptation. Although the Bush Administration seemed unwilling to recognize it, there's actually nothing wrong in trumpeting U.S. flexibility in the face of new facts on the ground...