Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...creed of nonviolence, rioted, stoned police, burned state buildings. These uprisings increased as the fast progressed, threatened to disrupt a stable wartime economy on which both British and American armed forces are dependent. But the Raj was prepared to meet this type of unrest. The only effective weapon left to Gandhi's badly battered Congress party was a fast. Sir Reginald Maxwell, Home Member of the Viceroy's council, called it "repugnant to Western ideas of decency...
Correspondent Hamilton insists that this is all wrong, says that Franco will respond only to tough talk and action by the Allies, and that "opportunity to apply pressure has always been considerable." Biggest weapon we have in Spain, says Hamilton, is the Spanish people. But "the common man of Spain will fight for us only if he knows that he is also fighting for himself and his hungry children...
...American Century, in which the United States would single-handedly dominate or at least exercise influence over all the nations of the world. Such a military training program might easily develop an army so large that the government would be tempted to use it not as a weapon of temporary expediency, but as a long-run substitute for mutual cooperation and the eventual restoration of political and economic equality of the defeated nations...
...revolver to my head. I thought I would cry out: 'May Great Imperial Japan live forever!' in so loud a voice that the enemy would hear me, and then press the trigger. But the feel of the cold steel made me shudder, and I hastily replaced the weapon in my holster. I wanted to live on as long as I could. Thoughts of home brought tears to my eyes, and I shut them and prayed...
...power's failure to be ready for the test, airmen can blame themselves as much as the officers they accuse of having old-fashioned views. Even Göring, with the resources of his country behind him, overestimated the potency of his new weapon and therefore underestimated the needs of his air armada. In the U.S., where economy, not battle, was the goal, the U.S. Air Corps as late as 1937 asked for only 108 of the new Flying Fortresses (and got 19).* Even Britain, with an independent air force, had too few aircraft when war came. Only...