Word: terrains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...field strategy . . . a war of maneuver with the object of inflicting as heavy a punishment upon the enemy as possible ... has worked well. [But] we must not fall into the error of evaluating such . . . successes as decisively leading to the enemy's defeat." MacArthur added that the mountainous terrain, outnumbered U.N. forces, and political decisions over which he had no control made "purely academic" any talk of crossing the 38th parallel...
...lost. Bulldozers had already been unloaded in French Morocco, the first group of engineers was on the ground, ships laden with airfield equipment were en route. The seven Moroccan fields were at Port Lyautey, Marrakech, Casablanca, Meknes, Rabat, Kourigha, Nouasseur. The incoming Americans would find the flat, sparsely wooded terrain ideal for military aircraft bases, but would run into difficulties with the heat (120° in the summer shade) and the housing (very tight...
...maneuvers near Istanbul, Yamut asked American advisers to show his officers what jeeps, trucks and tanks could do in the rough terrain. He followed the lead jeep as it bounced and slushed through brush, forests and mud hills. Not satisfied to allow his general officers to stand around observing, he herded them into other jeeps or tanks and sent them careering in the dust and mud until they were so dirty the red stripes on their uniform trousers were hardly visible. Next day he sent the shocked generals slithering through sandy terrain in the same jeeps. A few vehicles turned...
...able U.S. military man stationed in Teheran estimates that mountainous Iran poses such terrain, communications and logistics problems that Soviet Russia would need 100,000 to 200,000 men to reach and exploit the Iranian oilfields. The stronger the Iranian army, the more soldiers Russia would have to draw from elsewhere, and the higher price it would pay. Improving the basically footslogging Iranian army would require relatively small financial assistance. A greater military gamble in Iran would seem justified...
...sudden rash of scruples. When he learns that the rancher's real, kidnaped son has been adopted by a Mexican bandit chief (Joseph Calleia), Ladd stages a one-man invasion of Mexico to bring the missing heir home. He is undeterred by a whole bandit army, the rough terrain and the fact that the long-lost son is perfectly content to stay where...