Word: tactically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tactic? In six years of undeclared civil war, the armies of China's two factions have had many more serious clashes (in 1941, a battle between the Communist New Fourth Army and Central Government troops lasted nine days, cost more than 10,000 casualties). Then what did Yenan's shrill charges mean at this time...
...Communists hoped that their manifesto would "serve as the basis for the formation of a bloc of antifascist, democratic parties." This popular-front tactic began to work at once. Members of the Social Democratic Party decided to cooperate with the Communist Party in a joint working committee of 20 to carry out the Communist program. Since the German Communists in the past have fought Social Democrats even more fiercely than they fought the Nazis, this was a historic handclasp...
...plan: while they could be sure of committing suicide, they still could not be sure of getting away with enough murder in the process. Radio Tokyo, announcing that Japan's entire naval air corps had been converted to a suicide outfit, explained with admirable clarity: "If this tactic is successful, victory is assured for Japan. If otherwise, the navy will have many heroes for our shrines...
...clear that the Jap command had resorted to a defense as macabre to Western minds as it was typically Japanese. There was no question that the harakiri tactic of Kamikaze (Divine Tempest) airmen had been adopted as a chief effort. There were strong indications that it had become the major hope of a defense of desperation...
...Navy still would not permit itemization of losses and damage, but said that no fast carrier, battleship or cruiser had been sunk by Kamikaze planes. Failing to knock out major vessels, the enemy had turned his tactic against more vulnerable escort carriers, destroyers, transports and auxiliary vessels. The net effect on U.S. fleet operations has been negligible, the cost in enemy aircraft and pilots high...