Word: commandeer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Answer: "Is it so hard to understand that our high command avoids sensational massacres and the spending of our resources in spectacular but useless blows...
Japan's South China Command released an exceedingly important document. Declaring that recent Japanese victories near Nanning in South China were "unprecedented in East Asia, in that they were annihilating operations which resembled those launched by Hannibal at Cannae [v. the Romans, 216 B.C.] and by the Germans against the Russians at Tannenberg in 1914," the proclamation went on to announce that the Wang Ching-wei puppetry was ready to go, China's supply routes from the south were cut, and therefore the Japanese had no desire to extend their occupied areas. "In the future." it concluded...
...sleepless, exhausted and incredibly brave Finnish army had for twelve days withstood a mighty offensive by the best & biggest army that Russia could put into the field. Not since Marshal Haig sent tens of thousands of Britons to their slaughter at the Somme in 1916 had a high command been so prodigal of its men. Stung by its failure, in two months of bitter warfare, to subdue the stubborn Finns, apprehensive that outside help might make the Finns unconquerable by spring, Soviet Russia had risked its morale, its prestige and perhaps its future on a frontal assault against Finland...
After dark came the Admiralty's command: go in and rescue the Altmark'?, prisoners, with or without Norway's permission. Captain Vian at once took his Cos sack into the fjord again. He went aboard the Norwegian gunboat Kjell, invited her commander to lead a British boarding party which would find out for certain about prisoners on the Altmark. The Norwegian declined, but went aboard the Cossack, which proceeded up the moonlit fjord to its precipitous end, where the Altmark had got fast in pack...
They crushed the Japanese feeler which crept out in May attempting to command the northern approaches to Chungking, with Hanchung (see map) as its ultimate objective. They did the same to a September drive for Changsha, key to Chungking's southern approaches. And they made a bloody, muddy fiasco of a Japanese "cleanup" campaign in supposedly occupied Shansi Province in the north...