Word: theorist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...transition from the normal status of National Socialist legal thinking to thinking in terms of the law of war is being accomplished without grave upheavals. . . . The decisive principle is, who is stronger, who is more determined, who has better nerves? Whoever does not admit this is a pale theorist and is no good for politics or, in the deepest sense, for creative law-giving...
Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan, U. S. N., probably the world's greatest naval theorist and historian, maintained that all great conflicts could be analyzed as struggles between land powers and sea powers. By their fluidity, sea powers always...
Three weeks ago Generaloberst Walther von Brauchitsch was little more than a name outside Germany, an untried general who was supposed to be a good organizer but no theorist, whose rise to the position of Commander in Chief of the German Land Forces had been due at least partly to his willingness to back Adolf Hitler where more experienced generals would not. This week Brauchitsch was a name to put beside those of Moltke, Ludendorff and Schlieffen: not only was he Germany's No. 1 Krieger (warrior), but he had fostered, planned and led the Blitzkrieg-and proved...
Universal conscription had its genesis not only in the French Revolution but in the cheap rifle, which could be produced by the millions. With more expensive automatic rifles, machine guns, tanks and airplanes threatening to make the rifle obsolete, many a military theorist (and especially British theorists) has held that the days of large armies are over, that henceforth wars will again be fought by small groups of professionals trained especially to handle war's complicated machines. According to this theory, the draft would largely be confined to industrial workers conscripted to produce the machines. Until only a month...
...exile from Germany's University of Munich, demure Dr. Bethe at Cornell has increased his repute as an atomic theorist like a snowball rolling downhill. It is hard to pick up a physics journal nowadays in which he has not some new light to shed on old problems, or in which other physicists do not find occasion to cite his work. Dr. Russell in Philadelphia last week left no doubt that this new work on the sun is a highly valued contribution-from an astrophysical point of view, very hot stuff indeed...