Word: strategist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...needed at the front on Day Five. Relying less on brute force than on operational elegance, it requires commanders to concentrate their efforts on attacking the right thing in the right place at the right time. The enemy's crucial "center of gravity" -- a term borrowed from Prussian strategist Karl von Clausewitz -- is that target whose destruction will have the greatest ripple effect on the enemy's overall military operations...
Bernard E. Trainor, a retired Marine general and former Vietnam War strategist, has appeared around-the-clock as a top military analyst for ABC News. In his spare time since the war started, he is director of the National Security Program at the Kennedy School of Government...
...more than 20 years you were OPEC's chief strategist. You introduced the world to an oil embargo, to gas lines and stagflation. How do you view OPEC today, and what are the organization's prospects...
...social program, bashed Republican lawmakers for obstructing it and convinced voters to replace them with Democrats. This time, however, neither the actor nor the stage seemed to fit the script. Voters, while disgusted by federal fecklessness, blame Republicans at least as much as Democrats. Also, as a senior Republican strategist conceded, "this give-'em-hell stuff really isn't George Bush, and it's not credible coming from him. It's too strident...
...very tenure in office that used to be a political asset can now be a liability. They are scrambling to recast themselves as populist crusaders whose main reason for being in the nation's capital is to fight against its wicked ways. Says Larry Harrington, a Democratic Senate campaign strategist: "Everybody is playing the outsider. That's this year's shtick...