Word: sukhomlinov
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have spent over ten years trying to unravel the mystery of muddy-bloused Ulysses Grant's victory over the impeccable Robert E. Lee. Thanks for providing the answer: it was the Sukhomlinov Effect [Feb. 1], of course...
...connection with your short, charming little article on "the Sukhomlinov Effect," I would like to suggest that all military dress uniforms be eliminated. Not only would we enhance our chance of winning wars in the future, but think of all the tax money that would not be wasted. And perhaps if we eliminate some of the glittering glories and unnecessary pageantry of the full-dress parade, more people might be able to see through to what war really is. For the sake of humanity, let us at least consider such a proposal...
...Army may travel on its stomach, but defeat or victory rides on the generals' epaulets. The Sukhomlinov Effect -named after the sartorially smashing but strategically stumbling World War I Czarist War Minister, V.A. Sukhomlinov-suggests that the winners wear the least flashy uniforms. In the current issue of Horizon, Scholars Roger Beaumont and Bernard J. James review the dress of military leaders from bedraggled American colonists to pajamaed Viet Cong. With the exception of the drably turned-out forces on both sides of the Korean War, the gaudier the officers, the surer the defeat. Jump-suited Churchill was ordained...
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