Word: strategist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...could begin it before Cherbourg was taken, or would have to wait for a big port to serve him, was another one for Rundstedt and Rommel to figure out. Yet another still to be answered: was the Normandy assault the big Allied effort-or was Eisenhower, a foxy strategist himself, planning another in the Calais area, or on the Bay of Biscay, or on the Mediterranean...
...assignment of traditional Strategist Rundstedt over ambitious Tactician Rommel, who was once a Nazi cop, London observers thought they could see a victory for the German General Staff over Adolf Hitler's military intuitions and his party followers. They also agreed that it was probably a sound decision...
General Alexander von Falkenhausen, 64, chief for Belgium, is rated a keen, well-tested strategist. Tall, spare, pince-nezed, Junker Falkenhausen has served around the world, was once a $10,000-a-year military adviser to Chiang Kaishek. He likes to read U.S. and British whodunits, play with his prize dachshunds. In action Allied commanders rate him a keen, dangerous opponent...
...Navy strategist, and a poor sailor as well. But he conceived his job to be that of a civilian link between the Navy and the nation, not a teacher of admirals. Mostly he bustled about, trying to instill his own brand of peppy patriotism into war workers and servicemen alike. As the Navy's most-traveled Secretary, he visited Pearl Harbor a few days after December 7, and saw Guadalcanal, England and the Mediterranean...
When war burst over Europe's dam in 1939 many a wishful-thinking strategist offered a simple, temporarily sensible formula: let Allied planes load up in France, drop their bombs on Germany, land in Poland, reload, shuttle back to France...