Word: maneuverability
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On Sunday, the 44th rested, prowled the Virginia towns, roamed through Fredericksburg's National Military Cemetery, where 15,000 Civil War soldiers (12,000 marked "unknown") lie under prim headstones. But there was no day of rest for the officer responsible for the maneuver: Major General Lesley James McNair...
Meanwhile the staff worked hard at laying out the biggest maneuvers the U.S. Army had ever had. They found that their new boss was an uncompromising stickler for realism. He wanted no more of the old style of maneuver, in which the U.S.'s undermanned, underarmed Army had to...
McNair's Manual. "An armistice or rest period during a maneuver-for example, at night-lessens realism and training value," says McNair's manual for maneuver umpires. Similarly he washed out such practices as crossing bridges marked demolished by the enemy forces. In other days, troops waited a...
Turks know their President, thirdly, as a tough, able statesman who once outmaneuvered Lord Curzon at Lausanne in 1923 and who (they hope) may yet out-maneuver Adolf Hitler. Joseph Stalin is reported to have said: "The only man outside Russia whose advice I respect is Inönü...
His was a tale of enormous progress: from a skeletal Regular Army of 169,000 in 1939, unable to conduct a real field maneuver, to one of 1,210,600 men and officers last week. Give it three more months, said General Marshall, and it would be a real army...