Word: arvn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...weeks ago, eight North Vietnamese tanks routed ARVN (government) troops guarding the highway junction of Dak Song, two miles from the Cambodian frontier. Since then the province has been cut off from the rest of the country except by air. Most of the fighting has focused north of Gia Nghia, the dingy province capital. Some 4,000 North Vietnamese are entrenched near by at Bu Prang, an advance outpost lost by the South Vietnamese at a cost of 150 killed and missing...
...ARVN confidence is not great. A relief column headed for Gia Nghia has been stalled to the north of Dak Song. Streams of UH-1 (Huey) helicopters, laden with troops, take off from the provincial capital only to return half an hour later because they cannot penetrate the low clouds and land in the combat zone. The loss of Bu Prang was a bitter blow to ARVN because it lies astride the new infiltration route stitched together by the North Vietnamese since the cease-fire and running from the DMZ along the western rim of South Viet Nam. The military...
...apparent lack of fighting is deceptive. While ARVN and enemy clashes elsewhere are short-lived but fairly easily defined, the war in the Delta is like a slow hemorrhage. Casualties on both sides are vastly higher than anywhere else: an average of ten ARVN troops and 30 enemy killed daily since the cease-fire went into effect...
...been flying up to 100 sorties daily, many of them against targets in those parts of Tay Ninh and Pleiku provinces that were accorded to the Communists by the cease-fire agreement. In sections of Chuong Thien province, deep in the Mekong River Delta, the South Vietnamese Army (ARVN) has systematically nibbled away at Viet Cong positions...
...even more ambitious. There is evidence that they are attempting to establish a supply route running along the Laotian and Cambodian borders from the demilitarized zone down to Loc Ninh inside South Viet Nam. A major obstacle to setting up the route was a string of 50 ARVN outposts in the wooded, hilly Central Highlands. Many were lost in the 1972 offensive. In the past three months, South Vietnamese troops have been pushed out of most of the remaining camps...