Word: maneuverability
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By week's end the Blues had plenty to brag about. On the first day of the maneuver they had knocked out 200 tanks, had done nearly as well every day thereafter. (Under maneuver rules, tanks destroyed on any day came to life next morning.)
Communications functioned better than ever before, although the Army is still critically short of radio equipment, will be until spring. Cooperation of air force with ground troops was more effective than ever before, although the strain of battle showed up many a minor bug in the new U.S. flying equipment...
The Center's whereabouts is a military secret-except that it is on the seventh floor of a brick, steel and concrete building, a spot immune to any bomb. Supervised by Army officers, its girl volunteers take flashes from the outposts, maneuver discs and blocks about huge table maps...
Of defensive maneuver Budenny instinctively knows only one thing, and that instinct has been his one guide in the battle of the Ukraine. During the Revolution, Trotsky once scolded him for not sending in a written report about a battle.
Another remedy for slack discipline is more within the Army's power: a crack officers' corps-the kind the Marines and Navy have, the kind regular Army outfits had before they were diluted with citizen soldiers. In Louisiana's maneuvers its beginnings could be seen in the...