Word: antiguerrilla
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...applying intelligent compassion and tough soldiering, Clement has since converted most of the Elephant Valley from numbness to normality. "Someone has to win this war," says he. "To do that, we have to win the people. We've won a few around here." Clement's course in antiguerrilla warfare has been classic in both technique and results; his men have been deadly in battle, humane in the administration of the territory they have...
Anyway, Green Berets should be good for recruiting. Moore's Special Forces men seem to spend little time on the humdrum public health and education programs and antiguerrilla training that are among the SF's major responsibilities. Instead, they recruit pretty girls to lure Viet Cong officers to their bedrooms-to be captured, naked and panting, by the SF. They hire Cambodian bandits to ambush Viet Cong units in Cambodia, train Meo tribesmen to fight against the Communist Pathet Lao in neutral Laos...
...Signal. Chief political victim was goateed little General Nguyen Khanh, who during seven months in power had striven vainly to unite his people in the antiguerrilla struggle. When the U.S. last month hit North Viet Nam in retaliation for the naval attack in the Gulf of Tonkin, Khanh used the situation to impose martial law, hoping to strengthen his regime. Then two weeks ago, he tried further to consolidate his position and persuaded his Military Revolutionary Council, the country's nominal ruling body, to promote him from Premier to President and grant him virtually absolute powers. Khanh acted with...
Victory Key. Back in Washington from a month of firsthand observation in the jungle were four sunburned, weary U.S. officers-a general and three colonels. To President Kennedy, the four antiguerrilla specialists reported that the war with the Viet Cong guerrillas is going better, but that the Communists are still winning. Some of the report's main points...
...would leave no choice but inglorious retreat or unlimited retaliation," said Kennedy, the U.S. has also doubled the number of ready combat elements in the Army's Strategic Reserve, increased the active fleet by more than 70 vessels and tactical air forces by nearly a dozen wings, expanded antiguerrilla forces and modernized weapons and ammunition. He promised a further military strengthening of U.S. forces in 1962, but pledged also "a supreme effort to break the log jam on disarmament and nuclear tests . . . until the rule of law has replaced the ever-dangerous use of force. The world...