Word: napoleonism
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...Like Napoleon, Adolf Hitler last week left Russia. But Hitler left only to make a speech (see p. 28). From the still-frigid shores of Lake Ladoga to the thawing quagmires of the Ukraine, his armies were proving better than Bonaparte's. The Russians kept slogging away at them. But they still held most of the great objectives that the Russians wanted before spring...
...fact was that the Germans still held nine-tenths of the ground they had taken in Russia, whereas in 1812, twelve weeks before this time of year, the Grand Army of Napoleon Bonaparte had quit the French-drenched Russian soil...
...gain. The "Legion of French Volunteers Against Bolshevism," endorsed by Vichy, offered recruits a tidy 40 francs a day (against the ten francs paid by France's "Armistice Army"). In German uniforms and tricolor brassards, they swore fealty to the Reichsführer and were exhorted to avenge Napoleon's retreat from Moscow. Men with families in concentration camps learned that joining the legion would free them...
...Colonel Kernan's formula for victory is a return to the slashing tactics of Napoleon, Wellington, Marshal Foch (whose Conduct of War he has translated).* His battle slogan is the famed dispatch from Foch at the First Battle of the Marne: "My right is exposed, my left is heavily attacked, my center is unable to hold its position, I cannot redistribute my forces. The situation is excellent. I shall attack...
...chief of state could find a man on whose mind was imprinted, as if on animated microfilm, all the books by and about Clausewitz, Napoleon, Lee, Caesar, Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, Sun Tzu of China and the rest of the great military theorists and practitioners, then the chief of state would be a fool to buy the books. Joseph Stalin has such a man in Boris Shaposhnikov...