Word: unites
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unlike the atom bomb, atomic artillery is not meant to be used against set targets known in advance. The enemy cannot disperse his cities, but he can disperse his troops. Against a normally dispersed advancing unit, atomic shells would not be especially effective. Atomic shells must be used on heavy concentrations of troops and munitions...
...table; a Korea-style truce would, more than Korea, represent defeat. There is no battle line behind which they can be confined by armed force or ultimatum. Even if the Navarre Plan goes ahead on oiled bearings, the Viet Minh probably can never be wiped out to the last unit. But with an aggressive plan aggressively carried out, the defenders can hope to show the Communists they cannot win, to pound and slash them until they finally will simply stop fighting-as the Greek Communist guerrillas did in the Greek civil...
This was no military coup, but a spontaneous popular uprising; individual soldiers joined, but not a single army unit came in. Not until 4 p.m., when an air force general appeared before General Zahedi's hideout with a tank, did Zahedi emerge and take command of a field already won. The General-Premier and his officers were as surprised by the victory as the people themselves. The army had planned to counterattack Mossadegh on Friday; the people beat them to it by two days...
...importance of intelligence. U.S. Army and Navy intelligence services, handicapped by the reluctance of regular officers to make a career of such work, were barely adequate for tactical purposes. In the 1920s. the State Department supported the so-called "Black Chamber." which had begun as an Army counterespionage unit in World War I, and which later succeeded in cracking some foreign codes. By this means, the U.S. officials read secret instructions from Tokyo, giving maximum and minimum bargaining positions to Japanese delegates to the Washington Disarmament Conference. In consequence. Japan came out of the conference with less than it might...
...witness testified that in the early '40s he had attended meetings of a New York City-wide unit of Communist professors with a membership of 100. On the City College teaching staff alone, he said, there were about 30 or 40 party members...