Word: attack
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Sweden had received numerous intimations that if she allowed the transit of Allied troops, Germany would attack...
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...
...play's title refers to the Insurgents' statement that they "had four columns advancing on Madrid and a fifth column of sympathizers inside the city to attack the defenders . . . from the rear...
Coming at the same time as a petition signed by 300 members of the College to affirm his appointment, the letter states that "the organized attack upon the appointment . . . . is a challenge to all Americans who cherish the principle of intellectual and cultural freedom...
...this attack proves successful," the letter continues "no American college or university is safe from inquisitorial control by enemies of free inquiry...