Word: tactically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz reported "desperate, suicidal" Japanese air attacks on U.S. ships near Okinawa by a "special attack corps." Thus the Pacific fleet boss lifted secrecy from an enemy tactic that had been a tabooed topic (and a source of endless scuttlebutt) since the Leyte campaign...
...Death," said the Tsarina, "is a somewhat maturing experience. What Nicky means is that between two systems of society, which embody diametrically opposed moral and political principles, even peace may be only a tactic of struggle...
...would crack back: "Well, yours isn't." This had the desired effect until Lee ran into one officer who answered: "No sir, your helmet isn't quite straight. Move it a little over this way-no, that way-no, that's wrong too." Word of the tactic got around; the General had to abandon his campaign...
...fear and suffering. But to safeguard its purpose, and focus its energies, it had organized one of the most resolute dictatorships the world had ever known, serviced by one of the most complex and efficient systems of secret police. In carrying its ideals abroad, it had developed a new tactic in power politics - the appeal to the foreign masses to organize, conspire and ultimately revolt against the dominant classes in their respective countries. The promise was that when the socialist organization of abundance was complete, the totalitarian state would dissolve of its own superfluousness in a new kind of classless...
...Germans were delighted. They began to posture as a friend of Poland. Polish slave laborers in Germany were permitted to remove the big P (for Pole) from their coats. Few Poles, familiar with the horrors of German friendship, would be deceived by the tactic. Nor could it greatly affect the military situation in Poland. But responsibility for the fact that at this late day in the war the Germans could still make use of such a tactic lay squarely with Moscow-and, to a lesser extent, with the U.S. and Britain...