Word: strategists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vinegar Joe" Stilwell's Chinese legions and Major General Claire L. Chennault's Fourteenth Air Force in reaching the China coast from the east. Now the China coast, and U.S. air bases within 400 miles of it, were being lost, perhaps for the duration. Many a U.S. strategist had taken for granted that soon after General MacArthur fulfilled his promise to return to the Philippines, an entry could be forced into China through a port or ports opposite Luzon (such as Hong Kong or Swatow...
...inverted rook on Marshal Tito's board (TIME, Aug. 21) part of a plan to confuse the enemy, or does it represent a second queen? If the latter, it has taken up an uncommonly defensive position to represent so audacious a strategist as the Marshal...
...meaning of all this, so far as outsiders could divine, was that the new Jap Cabinet and new Supreme War Council had thrown ex-Premier Tojo's China-first policy out the window. With high hopes for Oikawa as a brilliant strategist, they were preparing to meet the U.S. threat from east and south...
Even then, unless the election is very close, its actual national strength will be difficult to gauge. This will be all right with Strategist Hillman. For his first task is to establish P.A.C. as a threatening force, to which Congressmen and politicos in both parties must pay attention...
...front it was bitter, close, bloody fighting for one small position after another; battle so like the grinding attrition of the troop-saturated positional fronts of World War I that it gave some veteran officers a nightmarish feeling of "this is where I came in." It took no topflight strategist to conclude that the invasion of Western Europe was falling farther & farther behind schedule...