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...week Ike's friends-and enemies-watched for that big, liberating moment of battle, the breakout. The moment did not come. General Eisenhower won no famous victories last week. It was probably unrealistic of Ike's supporters to expect any sensational developments, but they were nevertheless disappointed as they saw their hero fighting uphill in the face of strong Taft resistance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Ike's Second Week | 6/23/1952 | See Source »

...generalship, particularly that of Eisenhower and Bradley, was generally unimaginative and costly, and prolonged the war by insisting on a broad front in Europe. Montgomery could have won the war with one massive strike for the Ruhr after the Normandy breakout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Defeat Through Victory | 3/31/1952 | See Source »

General de Lattre de Tassigny had promised Paris and the Pentagon that he would take Hoa Binh around January 1952. After the sweeping success of his breakout offensive (TIME, Nov. 19) De Lattre last week ordered his staff to prepare an immediate attack on Hoa Binh, was told it would take "at least eight days." Said De Lattre: "Do it in four." From the battlefield, TIME Correspondent John Dowling gave this report of how it was done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF INDO-CHINA: Severing an Artery | 11/26/1951 | See Source »

...Mohammed neglected to set up a succession, and his oldest and closest associates chose as Caliph [successor] Abu Bakr, who immediately directed the Moslem breakout from the Arabian Peninsula. The Arabs' two great neighbors, the Persian and Byzantine empires, were exhausted by long wars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War: THE MOSLEM WORLD | 8/13/1951 | See Source »

Phase Two began after less than three months during which a nearly miraculous logistical effort poured a flood of war materiel and men into Pusan's choking port. When the allied forces were finally ready for the big breakout, some U.N. forces stabbed westward to Kunsan, but the main body drove north toward Seoul. Then MacArthur dealt one of the master strokes of the war: the landing at Inchon (Seoul's port). The routed North Koreans reeled back toward the Manchurian border. MacArthur sent his forces after them in hot pursuit up to the Yalu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STRATEGY: One Year of War | 7/2/1951 | See Source »

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