In a recent book ("China's Communist Party: Atrophy and Adaptation"), David Shambaugh describes how the 74m-strong party has fired whole armies of time-servers.
A few young visionaries may have more influence than an army of time-servers and a forest of deadwood.
To an April 26th cocktail party at his home, on West 11th Street, Raines invited an army of Times employees, past and present, and wandered through the 4-story house dispensing bonhomie.
His hatred of war and scorn for the mercenary riffraff who composed the armies of his time appears frequently in his vast correspondence and was already a major theme in one of his earliest publications, the Panegyricus, an oration pronounced in honor of Prince Philip of Habsburg in January 1504.
British discipline of the First World War was not especially severe compared to most other armies of the time (e.g. the Russians and Italians).
The conventional deployment for armies of the time was placement of infantry in the center, with the cavalry in two flanking "wings".
Like other colonial armies of the time, the Force Publique was racially segregated; it was led by 280 white officers and NCOs, but otherwise comprised indigenous black Africans.
Like other colonial armies of the time, the Force Publique was racially segregated; it was commanded by 280 white officers and NCOs but other ranks were exclusively native Congolese.
Several considerations incline me to trust his account: this was probably not the only, nor the first, instance of apparent attempts to transmit disease by hurling biological material into besieged cities; it was within the technical capabilities of besieging armies of the time; and it is consistent with medieval notions of disease causality (22).
The New Yorker, March 13 , 1926 P. 7Return of Gen. Pershing from unsuccessful participation in Tacna Arica negotiations reminded army officers of time when C.O. of A.E.F.
