Sentences with 'strategists'
Example sentences and phrases with the word strategists and other words derived from it.
• « Instead, by 1916 many of the war's leading strategists concluded that the only way to win was to outspend the enemy, producing more munitions and supplies, recruiting more men, committing more civilians to the war effort at home, and sacrificing more soldiers than the other side could. »
• « The most important lesson German strategists had learned from World War I was how to overcome trench warfare. After years of stalemate, Germany had managed to break through the French and British lines on the western front right at the end of the first war, before they were pushed back by the onslaught of American troops. »
• « German strategists had learned all these lessons, and the German army - the Wehrmacht - struck with overwhelming force, backed by an industrial base designed to withstand a long war. »
• « German plans revolved around a naval invasion of the British Isles across the English Channel, but German strategists admitted that they would have to cripple the British Royal Air Force for the invasion to be possible. »