Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Norwegian coast the landing would be easier, the supply problem (across more than 400 miles of sea) far more difficult. The problem of coordinating Empire and U.S. troops, of hooking two armies, two navies and two air forces (with further subdivisions) into a single, smoothly functioning tactical weapon was one to chill the heart of the toughest and most diplomatic officer that ever lived...
Above all, Commandomen must learn to kill. They prefer to kill quietly. A favorite Commando weapon is a long, straight knife, both edges sharpened razor-keen, carried in a trouser sheath. Some have metal kneecaps, fitted with metal spikes, to be driven into enemy crotches and spines. They can devise their own daggers, clubs, knives. They know the uses of spiked brass knuckles. All must know a Commando equivalent of jiujitsu. Fiercely, without quarter, they battle each other in practice combat, often break each other's bones: a few nights before the St. Nazaire raid one officer...
Army's Man. For this vital campaign the Gissimo's only weapon is China's army, a peasant army, full of superstitions as simple as the soil from which it springs...
...just as the critic is becoming stale, brings out the human qualities in him. But Ambler also falls in love with Lisa. The night of the opening of Mike's play the crisis comes: Lisa prepares to run off with Mike and Jason fights back with the only weapon he has--words. As Jason dictates his review of Ambler's play, he wins back his wife, re-establishes himself as a man and critic, and sends Mike off an humbled and perhaps slightly chastened...
...defeat Japan in the Pacific," says Kiralfy, "wishful thinking, if it can be called thinking, reached its zenith. . . . After a general survey it was recognized that Japan was almost totally dependent upon imports and exports. Accordingly the blockade so dear to democratic hearts was set down as the controlling weapon for a war in the Pacific. ... As time went on and the blockade grew tighter, the Nipponese navy would be forced to come out and fight to relieve the terrific pressure. Then, of course, it would be destroyed, and the war would be won. . . . The war plan had been drawn...