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...However intransigent," concludes Marshall, "the men of Peking are not reckless. They look for the soft touches and hit only when opportunity yawns wide. For these reasons, all the talk about blundering into another Korea-type war in Southeast Asia seems to me as idle as is the fear behind it. Palpable risks and dangers are present in such number that if those who make policy recoil from chimeras, they will forfeit what chance remains to help South Viet Nam save herself...
...process, Eugen was to revolutionize the set-piece siege warfare of the day. Among his trademarks: deploying cavalry the way Rommel was later to use panzers, pressing a campaign year-round instead of just in the summer season, and an inspiring (if reckless) bravado that was to get him wounded in action 13 times...
...proud of, and grateful for, his victory. Said he: "The people are pretty fair. They said, 'He brought us through this, he landed this plane, he did a pretty fair job.'" He also declared: "I do not consider the election a mandate to embark on any reckless, dangerous, novel or unique course...
...Supreme Court has declared is fundamentally wrong." Turner was referring to New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, a landmark decision holding that public officials can sue their critics only for a false statement "made with actual malice-that is, with knowledge that it was false or with reckless disregard for whether it was false...
...last year at West Point, he thrust his head into the line of fire during a sharpshooting exercise. "I just wanted to see how afraid I'd be," he explained, "and to train myself not to be." When war came, Patton's revolutionary theories of seemingly reckless advance ("Let the enemy worry about his flanks") often proved to be the best way not to spill blood but to spare it. Besides, if he had had his own way, World War II would have cost but one casualty: it would have been just a duel between Field Marshal Rommel...