Word: reattack
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though Alexander had the misfortune to command two retreats (Dunkirk was the other), in both cases he got the job after other generals had been recalled, possibly too late. His own motto is: "Attack, attack and reattack, even when you are on the defensive." His politeness is unfailing, but staff officers confronting him for the first time remark his pale blue eyes with unwavering, pinpoint pupils, his clipped mustache and his clipped, machine-gun orders; they regard him as a somewhat dashing but thoroughly competent commander. His chief aide in the field as the battle joined was Lieut. General Bernard...
...growth of his forces caused him to make the real mistake of his career. In planning his counter-attacks last June, to throw the Germans back beyond Tobruk after they had retaken Libya, he planned a rapid attack, quick withdrawal, reattack. In operation he found that he could not move his big forces as quickly as he had moved his small forces. Supply complications and intertwining of forces tangled up the plan. It failed, and after a few days' fruitless fighting the attempt was abandoned...
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