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Arnhem Bridge. El Alamein epitomized Montgomery's battlefield style: a long, careful buildup of matériel superiority followed by a massive frontal attack with secondary flanking pushes. These tactics were successful in many battles-at Mareth, Tunisia, the Sangro River in Italy, and Caen, France-but they also led to some disasters. The most notable was the ill-starred 1944 operation "Market Garden," a Montgomery plan to march straight into Germany's Ruhr Valley by seizing five bridges that crossed the Rhine in Holland. The drive collapsed at the crucial crossing, Arnhem Bridge, with a devastating defeat...
...signatories of the accords violated them. The U.S. broke the spirit, though not the letter, of the agreement by rushing an enormous amount of matériel to Saigon just before the cease-fire took effect. In the first year of the ceasefire, government forces expanded the land area under their control by some 20%, bringing roughly 1 million additional people under the South Vietnamese flag. South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu, who felt with some justification that he was being placed in an untenable no-win situation, also did all he could to block the open political struggle in South...
...Moscow, partly in hope of convincing Brezhnev that the Soviet Union should resume large-scale arms shipments to Egypt. Since the end of the October war, the Soviets have poured massive supplies of arms into Syria, while Israel, thanks to the U.S., has more than replaced its matériel losses. Egypt, on the other hand, has been left without adequate replacements for its Russian-made arms. One condition Moscow sets for arms shipments: a return of Soviet advisers to Egypt...
Moreover, many contractors are now turning down military contracts in favor of sales to private companies; they find that commercial orders yield less paper work and better profits. Says Admiral Isaac Kidd, Chief of the Naval Matériel Command: "It is no longer a buyers' market where we could dictate through contracts...
...tonnage totals did not include supplies being hauled by El Al's jets or heavy equipment-like M-60 tanks-being transported in Israeli ships. One day last week, the Israeli freighter Aben Dat took on tracked vehicles and other matériel at Norfolk, Va., Naval Station and then put to sea at 4 a.m. Nor do the U.S. figures include 30 F-4 Phantom fighters and 50 A-4 Skyhawk light attack bombers that the U.S. has agreed to give Israel...