Word: maneuverability
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Weygand did not believe it likely that he would succeed in establishing another line, but a soldier's job is to fight, not to surrender. To continue fighting he had to attempt the maneuver.
We are assured that novel methods will be adopted, and when we see the originality, malice and ingenuity of aggression which our enemy displays we may certainly prepare ourselves for every kind of novel stratagem and every kind of brutal and treacherous maneuver. I think no idea is so outlandish...
At week's end, M. Reynaud paid Mr. Churchill a visit in London and presently a new Chief of the British Imperial Staff was announced, replacing General Sir Edmund Ironside, who was put in charge of home defense (see p. 27). In a switch strategically parallel to the Weygand...
Herd Combat. Not on the Allied program was engagement of the German armored herds by herds of Allied tanks. Defensive warfare of position called for artillery replies to tank offensives. But such was the Germans' speed that the French command was forced to admit a war of maneuver had...
In number of first-line planes Britain and France were outnumbered nearly three to two. With the odds thus against them, the Allied Air Forces had the tough assignment of stemming a new type of military drive, devised by the Germans-a war of maneuver in which the air forces...