Word: arvn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...film makes two controversial allegations. First, the American government has ignored its responsibilities to aid in war reparations. Second, U.S. military and economic aid to the Republic of South Vietnam perpetuates the continuing battle between ARVN and PRG forces, supports a politically oppressive climate, and denies the people of Vietnam its recognized right to self-determination...
...Southeast Asia, earned a Master's at Princeton and is about to complete his doctoral thesis there (topic: resistance to change in large institutions). Long regarded as Chief of Staff material, Lieut. Colonel Dawkins, currently one of 18 White House Fellows, was in Viet Nam as an ARVN adviser in 1965-66 and again the next summer, when he collaborated on an Army "pacification" study. In the Pentagon in 1970, he helped refine the concept of an all-volunteer army. Last summer he finished a stint as commander of a battalion in Korea...
...laconic military briefings in Saigon, ARVN officials claimed that nearly 63,000 enemy soldiers have been killed since the Paris accords were signed. The South Vietnamese admit losing more than 17,000 men during this period. Despite the intensity of recent fighting-a last-minute Communist flurry before" the monsoons set in-few in Saigon expect a major Communist offensive. Through interrogation of defectors, South Vietnamese intelligence experts have been able to reconstruct a major document based upon a North Vietnamese strategy directive. The document is Central Office for South Viet Nam (COSVN) Resolution 12, designed to inform cadres...
Most of what the South Vietnamese know about military tactics they learned from their American advisers. They learned so well that today ARVN corps commanders flit about the countryside in their personal helicopters, and some unit commanders bounce around in their own high-gloss, jet-black Jeeps. Even the lowliest enlisted man honors the American way of war: never walk when you can hitch a ride in a truck, never hitch in a truck when a Jeep is available, never ride in a Jeep when a helicopter is going your way. These profligate habits cost considerable fuel, as does...
Almost universally, ARVN's officers believe that a major offensive is coming next year and that it will be fought mainly by North Vietnamese troops, who, according to Nghi, make up the bulk of enemy forces in South Viet Nam. The Viet Cong, Nghi claims, have all been "killed or have deserted. I believe that there will be an offensive early next year," he says. "Hue is a military target and a political target. Saigon is a political target. Their goal of a 'third Viet Nam' [a separate Communist state in the South] is very real." Although...