Word: strategists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Marshall will rely on Casey as a football strategist and looks to him to supply a repertoire of fancy, wide-open plays. Among the newcomers to the Redskins forces who will report to Casey, is Bill Shepherd, Western Maryland player, star of Dick Harlow's team last fall...
...victorious troops. Inevitably he was made Regent of the new Government, for then Finland had an idea it would turn to a monarchy. When it switched to a republic, he quit. When King Gustaf forced Finland to destroy the Aland forts, General Mannerheim was pained as a strategist, as a true monarchist and as a loyal Finn. Today he lives, as becomes a Grand Old Man, quietly in Helsingfors with his Russian wife, accepting honorary figurehead positions. Not one to go off halfcocked, he lately said, "The dismantling of the Aland Island fortifications has created immense new dangers for Finland...
...regrets. The war over, he could say: "I did only what my duty demanded. I could have taken no other course without dishonor. And if it all were to be done over again, I should act in precisely the same manner." Biographer Freeman allows Lee high marks as a strategist and commander, but thinks he had weaknesses as both. Lee was sometimes too much of a gentleman, says Freeman: by not standing on his authority, letting subordinates argue and outface him, he sometimes lost military opportunities. He was usually content to outline a plan of battle, leave his commanders...
...good coxswain must know when to coax and plead with his oarsmen, when to encourage and when to threaten. By his skillfull handling of the tiller ropes he can save precious yards that may mean the difference between victory and defeat in an important race. He must be a strategist. He must know when to coast and when to spurt...
...limits up to which we can arm, and it will be our duty to make ourselves as competent as we may up to that limit." To pacifists the only crumb of comfort was thrown by Captain Basil Henry Liddell Hart, Britain's best-known and most articulate military strategist. Capt. Liddell Hart is the author of The Real War, the successor of the late great Lieut. Colonel Charles A'Court Repington as military expert on the London Daily Telegraph and the inventor of the Battle Drill System and the Expanding Torrent Method of Attack. He too agreed that...