Word: tactician
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...elbowed past women and children to board the planes and boats that managed to evacuate 90,000 people from Danang in the hours before the city fell to the Communists. In some cases civilian refugees were killed by troops stampeding away from the enemy. "True enough," said one Army tactician, "the Vietnamese soldiers fight with their families along, but they even deserted their families to fight their way aboard a plane or a boat...
Pleasure Expedition. Though a Southerner, Foote's judgments are evenhanded. He admires Sherman as an implacable tactician while amply describing the depredations that Uncle Billy's "bummers" committed as they marched to the sea. Sherman, says Foote, "hoped to keep nonmilitary damage to a minimum, but he made it clear that if guerrillas or other civilians attempted to interfere with his progress, 'then army commanders should order and enforce a devastation more or less relentless.' " Sherman's people got the idea. All over the countryside, Yankees were seen jamming rods into the earth, searching...
...lines; at present, for instance, it has 100 more planes and 330 more tanks than it had at the start of the October war. Two of the country's most distinguished retired generals-Israel Tal, its top armor strategist, and Ariel ("Arik") Sharon, the brilliant, sharp-tongued tactician who led his division across the Suez Canal in October 1973-have returned to semiactive status. Sharon reportedly has been given a command in the "northern sector," meaning the Golan Heights, where he presumably would direct any battles against the Syrians, who according to Israeli sources have violated the disengagement agreement...
...Premier has been criticized for his undiplomatic bluntness, his lackluster speaking style and his neglect of the Labor Party, which, in the sudden absence of yesterday's superstars, is in a melancholy state of disorganization. But he has also gained credit for being an able administrator and tactician, not to mention his striking speed-reading ability. Six months ago, Arab leaders tended to dismiss him as a weak and probably transitional figure; today they are not so sure. In Israel, most political observers now predict a long premiership for him-a remarkable accomplishment, considering the many problems he faces...
...wrote in his diary: "We nearly hit several mountains, and I was scared till I thought of my destiny, and that calmed me." He could not die, he believed, until he had achieved his "mission," something immortal. In that, he was somewhat disappointed. Patton was a swashbuckling and inventive tactician. Yet his indiscretions-the slapping incident on Sicily, his undiplomatic opinions-persuaded Dwight Eisenhower and George Marshall that however effective Patton was as a field officer, he was potentially unstable. Blumenson speculates that a subdural hematoma (a blood clot in the brain) suffered during a polo match may have caused...