Word: theorems
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just before war broke, Military Expert Liddell Hart published The Defence of Britain, postulating his theorem that in modern warfare, "defense is the best attack." A 3-to-1 superiority in mechanized weapon power is necessary for victory on the attack, and such superiority would be almost impossible to amass in a war between great powers. Many an ardent soldier criticized this thesis. "It was," as its author says, "an offense to their offensive spirit...
...upheaval in Germany. The latter should now be clear enough for him and everybody else. In his last speech, Adolf Hitler described the present war as a social conflict between predatory, hypocritical plutocracies and great, proletarian States like Germany. Last week the Nazi hierarchy was busily ding-donging the theorem that the Third Reich is fighting the classes for the masses, canceled Herr Thyssen's citizenship...