Word: soldier
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Retired General Maxwell D. Taylor is an intellectual soldier who examines global trouble spots from the heights. His view of the struggle below goes far beyond armies. He sees U.S. national security concerns in terms of critical raw materials and the potential collisions of exploding populations as well as in numbers of tanks and planes. The author of The Uncertain Trumpet, which questioned the doctrine of massive nuclear retaliation, sounds a compelling note in a plan for national strength that comes not only from scholarship but from a life of action...
Almost on cue, three days after South African troops had begun to withdraw from Angola, Defense Minister Magnus Malan announced that they had captured a Soviet soldier, Nikolai Pestretsov, 36, in a convoy of SWAPO guerrillas and Angolan forces some 31 miles from the Namibian border. Two unidentified Soviet lieutenant colonels and two Soviet women also were reported killed...
...novel, When William Came, an unsuccessful but percipient fantasy written in early 1913, about what England would be like under German occupation, and how a flabby society full of jokesters, hucksters and aesthetes would adapt to it. The third result was Munro's dramatic enlistment as a private soldier when the fighting broke...
...overage. He had to work like a dog to get in shape, and then keep refusing commissions that were offered to him, because a commission would "separate him" from other men. He became a good soldier and made corporal. Writes Langguth: "This time he would live his life the right way or he would end it." On the foggy dawn of Nov. 14, 1916, near Beaumont-Hamel, he was shot by a German sniper. During a brief pause in an advance one of his men had lit up, and Corporal Munro had just yelled, "Put that bloody cigarette...