It was at this point that my purchase of the Browning pistol lost its absurdity and appeared in the light of an acute strategic move.
He did not embarrass me with fulsome praise of my strategic genius.
Strategic points, strategy, are natural excrescences of brains which thus shamefully conceive and carry out what the abused people believe to be the military organization.
Military organization and strategic points are the watchwords.
Alexandria being a port of entry, and having a railroad, is more a strategic point for the invasion of Virginia than are Arlington Heights.
Joint Chiefs of Staff had recognized the paramount strategic value of the Ryukyus and issued orders to Admiral Chester W.
There the division absorbed up to 8,000 replacements and endeavored to train for a frustratingly varied series of mission assignments as, in effect, a strategic reserve.
The American strategic decisions to assault the Philippines, Peleliu, and Iwo Jima before Okinawa gave the Japanese garrison on Okinawa seven months to develop its defenses around the Shuri epicenter.
The French explorers saw the river, but failed to grasp its significance as a strategic line in the conquest of the West.
The fur-trade had led the way up the Hudson, and made beginnings of settlements at strategicpoints near the confluence of the Mohawk.
The strategic plan of the Allies had been realised with a completeness rarely seen in war.
Caemmerer, who disagrees with him, and says: "Clausewitz proclaims the oblique front as the most effective strategic form of attack, .
But it must be only of a tactical nature, for a strategic envelopment, when a great blow is to be struck, is a complete waste of power.
Also concentration by means of several railways demands a broad strategic front, which produces that separation of corps or armies which prepares the way for strategical envelopment, and so on.
No troops should be kept back as a strategic reserve," but every available man hurried up to the first battlefield, fresh levies being meanwhile formed in rear.
What are the naval strategic points of Great Britain and which should be those of China?
Their first move in the war with Russia was to occupy that strategic peninsula with a large military force and to secure a treaty with the Emperor which gives Japan a virtual protectorate over the Land of the Morning Calm.
It was a place of considerable strategic importance, inasmuch as it lay on a high ridge at the point of intersection of the roads from Tiberias, Scythopolis, Damascus, and Gerasa.
His strategic sense justly leads him to see that the authority of the teachings of the synoptic Gospels, touching the nature of the spiritual world, turns upon the acceptance or the rejection of the Gadarene and other like stories.
We are maintaining stability in thestrategic nuclear balance and pushing back the specter of nuclear war.
To maintain a strategic balance we must look ahead to the 1980's and beyond.
The Vladivostok negotiations with the Soviet Union represent a major step in moderating strategic arms competition.
The United States can never tolerate a shift in strategic balance against us or even a situation where the American people or our allies believe the balance is shifting against us.
In an era where the strategic nuclear forces are in rough equilibrium, the risks of conflict below the nuclear threshold may grow more perilous.
To make the United States invulnerable to foreign disruption, I propose standby emergency legislation and a strategic storage program of 1 billion barrels of oil for domestic needs and 300 million barrels for national defense purposes.
A further agreement to limit thestrategic arms race may be achieved.
We cannot rely solely on strategic forces to guarantee our security or to deter all types of aggression.
Fully adequate conventional and strategic forces cost many, many billions, but these dollars are sound insurance for our safety and for a more peaceful world.
The war in Indochina consumed enormous resources at the very time that the overwhelmingstrategic superiority we once enjoyed was disappearing.
A decisive step forward was taken in the Vladivostok Accord which I negotiated with General Secretary Brezhnev--joint recognition that an equal ceiling should be placed on the number of strategic weapons on each side.
Besides being a place of great strategic importance, Cabul is the centre of the trade of Central Asia.
First, we have the events leading up to the autumn of 1937, and the strategic position of the National Socialists in Austria.
I resume reading: “Her own strategic position had now become so unfavorable that she was bound to fall a victim to any attack pressed home with vigor before effective aid from the West could be expected to arrive.
But it is one thing to plan strategic moves in the event war comes, and it is another thing to plot and intrigue to bring on that war.
The speech is entitled “The Strategic Position at the Beginning of the Fifth Year of War.
Strategic surprise attack, out of a clear sky without any cause or possibility of justification, has been turned down.
World War I is responsible for the following strategic considerations which are imperative: “1.
I am reading from the English translation: “Introduction: Reichsleiter Bormann has requested me to give you a review today of the strategic position at the beginning of the fifth year of war.
I think it needs nothing more than a glance at the progressive chart to see what those favorablestrategic premises were.
Her own strategic position had now become so unfavorable that she was bound to fall a victim to any attack pressed home with vigor before effective aid from the west could be expected to arrive.
And the acquisition of Austria improved the military strategicposition of the German Army.
The railway pioneers, however, saw in Moose Jaw a strategic position for a railway centre, and immediately the village began to grow by leaps and bounds.
The Grand Trunk struck into the Prairie Provinces with depots at Fort William, Port Arthur, and many other strategic centres.
But a tactical mistake threw away all these strategic advantages.
From the very outset of his career in Spain he showed a lack of strategic insight and a want of rapidity of movement.
Berthier, in blind obedience to the Emperor, who had misread the situation, was compelled to neglect the first principles of war and to attempt to block all possible lines of advance instead of concentrating in a strategic position.
Thus it was that at Sorauren, after he had surprised Wellington and upset the whole of the English strategic plans, he was unable to win the battle which was necessary to reap the harvest of his labours.
Though he would not listen to Augereau's strategic advice, he had enough confidence in him to leave the first attack on Castiglione entirely in his hands.
But in spite of Ney's lack of strategic skill and his well-known vacillation when confronted with problems he did not understand, Napoleon was forced to employ him on an independent command.
It is a great strategic position, commanding the Brenner and the entrance to the Puster Thal; and investigation of the hillsides and neighbourhood, it is needless to say, is not encouraged by the Austrian Government.
But its route was chosen for German strategic reasons, for the linking up of Berlin with Constantinople and Bagdad.
Arista had a choice between two routes--one through a settled region, the other through a desert--and for strategic reasons chose the latter.
No one discussed depots of supplies, base of communications, lines of retreat, orstrategic positions," we are told by General S.
The capture of Monterey had no strategic bearing on the aim of the war (Scott, Mems.
For another, it seemed wise to place ourselves in a strategic position that would be of great value, should Mexico's threat of war be carried into effect.
Of course the German imperialist idea is a wicked and aggressive idea, as Lord Robert Cecil has explained; they want to set up all over the earth coaling stations and strategic points, on the pattern of ours.
The ways of most War Departments in moving troops about from one strategic point to another have ever been erratic, and that of the French is no exception.
The place was always a strategic point, and formed the military frontier post of a band of Syrian invaders, who gave it originally the name of Numerus Syrorum.
Bizerta is now the most important strategic point in the Mediterranean.
He was a patient organizer of victory rather than a strategic genius.
This feat of crossing the Lech in the face of a hostile force is by military experts regarded as the greateststrategic feat of Gustavus.
This important place having been taken after a bloody battle, Necho was master of all the strategicpoints north and west of Babylonia.
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