Word: tactician
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...wily foe who has become something of a legend in both Viet Nams for his stunning defeat of the French at Dienbienphu. He is one of the principal developers-along with Mao Tse-tung and Cuba's late Che Guevara-of the art of guerrilla warfare, a tactician of such talents that U.S. military experts have compared him with German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. "You know when he's in charge," said a top Pentagon official last week. "You can feel him there." Yet Giap had no formal training as a soldier. "The only military academy I have...
...Grand Coalition. The leaders of the coalition are now engaged in a debate about how to handle the National Democrats, who pose, in the opinion of many Bonn politicians, a threat to West Germany's 18-year-old federal republic. Herbert Wehner, the strong-willed Socialist tactician, wants to outlaw them under the clause in the Bonn constitution that bans anti-democratic parties. But Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger and most of his Christian Democrats would rather get at the National Democrats through a change in the electoral laws. At present, Germans vote for a party, not a person, and seats...
...Ireland Jr. is a veteran of more corporate combat than most businessmen could expect to see, or survive, in a lifetime. In 17 years with the huge holding company, which controls railroad, mutual funds, real estate and other interests worth more than $7 billion, Ireland has been a top tactician, first for the late Robert Young, more recently for Financier Allan P. Kirby, in seemingly endless court squabbles with stockholders, in bitter battles for the control of railroads (the New York Central, the Missouri Pacific) and in savage proxy fights for Alleghany itself (with the Murchison brothers of Dallas...
Womack said that Guevara was a good tactician of guerilla warfare but he was not a very successful revolutionary. He explained that "They won in Cuba not the way he said they did, but because the Cuban middle class was the most corrupt ever, and just folded...
...what Latin Americans really need, as proved by the recent Communist guerrilla uprising in Bolivia and the death there of Guerrilla Tactician Che Guevara, are the basic bread-and-butter weapons of a fighting man: rifles, mortars, machine-guns, helicopters and spotter planes. Unfortunately, these are not the stuff that flashy parades are made...