Military Review, Volume 28

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Command and General Staff School, 1948
 

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Página 72 - In the name of their Peoples, the Governments represented at the Inter-American Conference for the Maintenance of Continental Peace and Security...
Página 44 - ... for progress? We must accept human nature as it is rather than as we might wish it to be, and of all known stimulants to human endeavor, the hope of reward is the greatest. I do not mean that there do not exist noble souls to whom "service...
Página 34 - ... the destruction and dislocation of the German military, industrial and economic system and the undermining of the morale of the German people to the point where their capacity for armed resistance is fatally weakened.
Página 4 - An Act to authorize the President of the United States in certain Cases to take Possession of Railroad and Telegraph Lines, and for other Purposes.
Página 46 - I am induced to believe that the enemy has at least one hundred thousand men in front of us. Were I in Beauregard's place, with that force at my disposal, I would attack the positions on the other side of the Potomac, and at the same time cross the river above this city in force.
Página 45 - It did away, too, with the internal friction which had stemmed from the ambiguous division of authority between the Office of the Chief of the Air Corps and the Air Force Combat Command.
Página 12 - Pacific, 79 per cent were definitely neurotic before entering the service. It would seem that many of these crippled personalities should not be considered war casualties. The majority were replacements in old, well-organized units with long overseas service. These newcomers broke under minimal stress with little or no combat or disease and after only short periods of overseas duty.
Página 72 - The section between Whitehorse and Big Delta represents the center portion of a line extending from Skagway where oil shipped by tankers from West Coast ports is unloaded for transporta-tion. Sections between Skagway and Whitehorse and between Big Delta and Fairbanks were rehabilitated last year. Operational...
Página 106 - flypaper effect," ie their ability to tie up enemy air forces, may not continue for long. As long as the ships remain in battleworthy condition they will constitute worthwhile targets, which the enemy will feel obliged to attack. But the moment they are seriously damaged— and this may happen any day—the enemy will discontinue his attacks.
Página 85 - Gubbins directed a fantastic clandestine war that was, in his own words, "a day-to-day battle with the Gestapo, the Quislings and the Japanese secret police, one long continuous struggle, with torture and unbelievable suffering and death waiting around every corner at every moment.

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