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...being fought, and its first phase was now won, straight out of antique textbooks. The Greeks found in these first weeks of the war that the newfangled trappings of war were traps for those who used them in this terrain. The Greeks reverted to an old tactic: with bayonet and grenade they stormed heights from which their fire drove the enemy out of valleys below. With this tactic they pushed the enemy back on the central Pindus front. With necessary modifications of this tactic they pushed the enemy back of the Kalamas River on the flat coastal front. Devout Greeks...
...Rain and terrain are wonderful allies. Bad weather and forests helped Finland. Good weather and open country betrayed Poland, the Lowlands, France. Through such mountains and such torrents as northwestern Greece possessed, last week there could be no such thing as Blitzkrieg...
That was all very well, but before invading Switzerland the Axis will think four times. One thought will be for the tough little Swiss Army, one for the perpendicular Swiss terrain. Two thoughts will be for the St. Gotthard and Simplon tunnels, which the Swiss could blow up and thereby close two of Italy's five life lines for German coal and other things. Dynamite, not diplomacy, has kept Switzerland an island of comparative freedom in the heart of Hitler's Europe...
...real test. Ethiopia, a war against men whose only armor was the loin cloth, was no test. Neither was the Italian picnic in southern France. No one knows how enthusiastically the campaign in Egypt has been pursued. But this was war, and all the world was watching. Considering the terrain, the weather, and the vigor of the brave Hellenes, the Italians were doing all right...
...ports and Tampico on the Gulf are possible spots of invasion. Its first line of defense is the U. S. Navy, for Mexico has only six escort vessels, ten coast-guard gunboats and three patrol vessels. Once landed, a strong hostile force would have only the difficulties of the terrain and a doubtful Army between it and the U. S. border. The Mexican Army has a peacetime strength of 56,000, which can be increased to 150,000 in war. It also has 400 generals (as a legacy from frequent revolutions), ranked by General Jesus Augustin Castro, who fought under...