Word: sitzkrieg
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...modern war: the fast-moving, armored blitzkrieg, and strategic air bombardment, culminating in the Abomb. Korea saw both techniques disabled by physiography (mud and jagged hills) and politics (no bombs beyond the Yalu, a decision made in the U.S. in the summer of 1951). The result: a return to sitzkrieg, a mode of warfare that forced the mobile U.S. to fight on the enemy's terms. Thus it was that the most powerful nation in the world failed for the first time to win a war that it engaged...
...aged Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain, a Hitler tantrum was scarcely less embarrassing than the trial. No one seemed to know just why the trial was allowed to continue. But it did. Three generals testified that lack of French aviation was "stupefying"; that the "Sitzkrieg" had been "a period of stagnation"; that the press had undermined morale; that lack of liaison between air and army forces led to tragic blunders...
Featured for their rarity, two leaf-lets are shown which were dropped on Germany by French bombing planes during last winter's "Sitzkrieg"' and which accursed high German officials of living in luxury paid for by the man in the streets who wears only tatters...
...limp, sad affair in which Frenchmen supply atmosphere by calling each other My Old One; Old School Ties meet up in Northern France to drink bubbly, chaff each other about flirting with the French girls, and suffer, with their allies, the boredom of the long winter's "sitzkrieg...
Seeing that Reynaud, after more than a week of premiership, appeared to offer only the same old Sitzkrieg, many Frenchmen could not see why Daladier should not be recalled to re-form his Cabinet, again without Socialists, and get on with the unexciting policy urged by nearly all military experts: to strangle the Germans until in desperation they begin to use their stored materials in some sort of action. There were even rumors that in case Parliament got out of hand President Lebrun might call Marshal Petain, now French Ambassador in Madrid, to form a Cabinet. In every recent French...