With an inland avenue of safe retreat, invulnerably fortified at either end, Teuton sea strategists had always insisted that the Fatherland's naval position would be well-nigh impregnable.
That, indeed, was the argument on which Hindenburg and his fellow-strategists based the "safety" of inaugurating unrestricted submarine warfare and the moral certainty of war with the United States as a result.
The effectiveness of the Belgian fight for delay is ascribed largely to the intelligent and effective use its strategists made of the few aircraft they possessed.
Various traditions have been handed down about the demise of this celebrated captain, undoubtedly one of the greatest strategists Japan ever possessed.
Strategists are agreed that, had Kuropatkin's plans found competent agents to execute them, the Japanese advance would have been at least checked at Liaoyang.
Her strategists can scarcely have failed to appreciate that fact, and would doubtless have acted accordingly had they obtained a few months' leisure to mass an overwhelmingly strong fleet in the seas of China and Japan.
Such strategists as oppose the theory of the Meuse-Argonne campaign will undoubtedly assert that American losses were high.
Indeed, there is one school of strategists which goes back to the first Marne, and speaks as if nothing which happened after that really mattered.
There were no landmarks to hold the mind to the scene, nor, in case of battle, give the strategists points of vantage for the iron game.
The tactical games resulting, which naval strategists now play, employ models of the various craft used in war, such as battleships, submarines, etc.
In most wars, the antagonists have been so nearly equal in point of personnel and material that the result has seemed to be decided by the relative degrees of skill of the strategists on both sides.
At the outset it was declared by the strategists I consulted to be impossible.
General Sherman may be considered as first among the strategists of the war; General George H.
This is a truism; but it is necessary to insist upon it, because professional, and especially professorial, strategists and tacticians almost invariably ignore it.
There can be no surprise in store for the student acquainted with the vagaries of strategists who are influenced in war by political in preference to military requirements.
The process by which the continental strategists arrived at it involved some hard philosophical reasoning.
I hope in this book to iron out many creases in the heads of strategists and statesmen, and at least to show the object of action and the real point to be considered in war.
Approached in this way, the Far Eastern struggle is seen to develop on the same lines as all our great maritime wars of the past, which continental strategistshave so persistently excluded from their field of study.
Monk, who as a soldier had proved himself one of the finest strategists of the time, is held to have blundered from sheer ignorance of elementary principles.
Enough has been said to mark the shoals and warn us that, admirably constructed as is the craft which the military strategists have provided for our use, we must be careful with our navigation.
In spite of an unbroken record of failure scored at times with naval disaster, continental strategists from Parma to Napoleon have clung obstinately to the belief that there is a solution short of a complete fleet decision.
So far from claiming for their so-called science more than the possibilities we have indicated, the classical strategists insist again and again on the danger of seeking from it what it cannot give.
I hope in this book to iron out many creases in the heads of strategists and statesmen, and at least to show the object of action, and the real point to be considered in War.
Indeed, some have gone so far as to ascribe to great strategists and tacticians a mental organ peculiarly adapted to this point.
Theoretically, this system had merit, but it did not always work out as perfectly as the German strategists had planned.
This procedure cost them thousands of men, but it probably did not deceive the strategists on the other side.
Again it was demonstrated that they are poor strategists and fail to make careful observations of the terrain before advancing to attack.
The gray old strategists to whom the control of armament was assigned saw the nations moving towards peaceful solution of their real and imaginary difficulties.
It is considered by many military strategists as the greatest cavalry battle of the nineteenth century.
He is considered by many military strategists as the greatest cavalryman in United States history.
It had become patent to the strategists that it was of supreme importance to keep the enemy's aircraft on the ground.
In the Supreme War Council were such strategists as Gen.
Clausewitz expressly stated that he hoped "to iron out many creases in the heads of strategists and statesmen," such, for instance, as the idea that it is possible to consider either policy or war as independent of the other.
The result was a composite force very different indeed in fighting power from the splendid machine which the Mikado's strategists had been carefully perfecting in time of peace in readiness for the struggle which they had so long foreseen.
Nothing has been more remarkable in the course of these operations both by sea and by land than the complete secrecy with which the Mikado's strategists have veiled all their important movements until the calculated blow has been struck.
The general impression was, naturally, that the Second Army was destined for the tremendous task of storming Port Arthur, but a much larger conception of the campaign was present to the minds of the strategists at Tokio.
By it he secured the decisive supremacy of the sea in the Gulf of Pechili, and rendered possible at last the important movements on land which the strategists at Tokio were waiting to initiate.
But when machines were built in numbers, and air fleets began to form, strategists saw the complications that would ensue.
But now came the aeroplane, and strategists seized the opportunities it offered.
It is n't strategists that are wanted so much as believers.
The Bolshevik strategists were always aware of its value and never permitted themselves to be neglectful of it.
Reference to the war map will show that this Pinega area gave all the advantages of strategy to the Red commander, whose rapid advance down the valley with the approach of winter had taken the Archangel strategists by surprise.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "strategists" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
