Word: ncos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Washington with the disturbing news that perhaps one full division of the British army in Germany will have to be withdrawn unless the U.S. helps pay for its upkeep. France was still bogged down in the billion-franc-a-day war in Indo-China, which is consuming officers and NCOs faster than they can be trained. None of the 12 German divisions hoped for by 1953 is yet in sight...
Except for a hard core of officers and a number of NCOs who may be said to belong to the Communist elite, the great majority of Chinese Communist troops that have been thrown into the battles in Korea are either former Nationalist soldiers whom the Communists do not trust or new conscripts or local militia forced in there to make up the "human sea . . ." These troops are strictly "expendables" in the grand scheme of Mao Tse-tung and his Kremlin masters...