Word: strategist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these guardian outposts, scattered along the Panama Canal, are close-held Army secrets. But any foreign sailor, gliding through the Canal on a freighter, can see occasional clusters of tents or barracks in the hills, can even see the snouts of guns against the sky. Any Japanese or German strategist, studying maps of the Canal, knows that the guns are there to guard some of the most valuable military targets in the world: the locks in the Canal itself, and great earthen Gatun Dam (105 ft. above sea level and 400 ft. thick at the water level), where a break...
...stood bolt upright on a parapet for 20 minutes, lighting the fuses of improvised jam-tin bombs with a cigaret and lobbing the bombs at the Germans. Also captured last week after a tank fight at the outpost of el-Mechili were Major General Michael Denham Gambier-Parry, tank strategist, and 2,000 men. Also captured in Libya, apparently while flying out to Egypt from Britain via Gibraltar and Malta, was Major General Adrian Carton de Wiart, who unhappily commanded British troops in central Norway last year...
Adolf Hitler is a strategist of parts and he has more than one plan ready. Last week's world-girdling scare was a characteristic part of his super-plan, designed to keep his enemies guessing and to find out how they reacted. On those reactions his next move depends, and even he may not have known last week where it would be, or when...
Ever the military strategist at heart, he planned theoretical field campaigns against all his neighbors in the event of an attack on Greece, studied the weaknesses and flaws in every European war machine...
Clinging "flowing" to the around peaks, positions that avoiding did not valleys, fall quickly, attacking constantly, his tough little Army soon cleared Greece of all but dead and captive Italians, carried the war into Albania. Deprived of its great strategist, Greece still has his plans worked out in minutest detail. Future success will depend on the ability of Commander in Chief Field Marshal Alexander Papagos to execute them without the lashing vitality of Banker Little at John the behind...