Word: strategist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...constant drive which made them outstanding the year before has been lost. Then again there have been those who, upon election to the captaincy, apparently assumed that their selection was paramount to an appointment to the coaching staff. They became simultaneously a would-be mixture of coach, strategist, big brother, disciplinarian and critic whose opinions must be considered not only sound but indisputable...
Jules Romains was duped by some of his friends. Others simply became realists. In the end the only Man of Good Will left in Europe was Romains himself, and he scuttled for the U. S. Strategist Karl von Clausewitz said: "War is the continuation of politics by other means." If war is only one incident in a battle of political action, Jules Romains wasted his energy trying to avoid a skirmish while the battle passed...
...your report on recently acquired naval bases from Great Britain (TIME, Sept. 16, p. 18) your editorial strategist has committed the common error of overlooking the part the U. S. Marine Corps will, in all probability, take in making these bases effective naval stations...
...before, the President had written Navy Secretary Frank Knox a tribute on the 100th anniversary of the birth of Rear Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan, supreme U. S. Navy strategist. Significantly the President pointed to Mahan's theories that "threats of aggression can best be met at a distance from our shores rather than on the seacoast itself...
...Never a strategist, Avila Camacho won battle after battle with his tongue. In the Cristero rebellion of 1927, he walked unarmed into a saloon near Los Altos to meet the enemy chieftain. One hour later the pair walked out rubbing shoulders, the rebel cheerfully agreeing to lay down his arms. In Michoacan in 1929, he talked no less than twelve enemy generals into surrender...