Word: strategist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...touchy strategist, popular with his officers but fatally careless of administrative detail, was Joseph Eggleston Johnston, who took over the army Beauregard left. "Small, soldierly and greying, with a certain gamecock jauntiness," Johnston was already smoldering with rage at Jefferson Davis over being placed fourth in a list of full generals. Ceremonious, bad-tempered notes passed back & forth. The Secretary of War, Judah P. Benjamin, maddened Johnston by going over his head in military matters and out-arguing him afterward. At one sore point, Johnston beseeched Benjamin to help "create the belief in the army that I am its commander...
...population in the last two years, according to a survey by Montana State College. But last week Montana had 5,600 more voters registered than in 1940. Reason: a bitter primary election (July 21) in which the stake includes the political reputation of Senator Burton Kendall Wheeler, grand strategist of isolationism...
...strategist, and he knew it. He was "not a revolutionist, so he would say to himself, over and over again, 'My country, my country, my country.' " He profoundly respected arrogant, disloyal Charles Lee. He liked to think of the Continental Congress "as an august Senate, such as had sat in ancient Rome." He knew "there was no real bond between himself and the rabble of Yankees, backwoods Southerners, and foreign revolutionaries he led; yet there was a drive and a force, and an ache in his heart for something unseen yet tremendously powerful and forthright...
These basic facts were known when the Nazi High Command sat down to plan the German campaign of 1942. They are axioms which must have been burned into the military brain of Hitler's No. 1 strategist, Generaloberst Franz Haider, Chief of the German Army's General Staff...
...Where the successful strategist should be cold and calculating, he is fiery and emotional; his great sense of history leads him to confuse precedents and principles, and his dramatic mind builds star-pointing Alhambras of illusion totally devoid of a foundation of fact...