Word: arvn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crisply uniformed U.S. Army lieutenant colonel was briefing a group of foreign military attaches in Saigon. "As of today no ARVN elements remain in Laos," he began. "Enemy forces are now chasing them toward the border-wait, I don't mean to use that word. They are following them to the border...
Those of us that want the war immediately ended need not be afraid of what those men might have said. They could have for example only reiterated the President's untruth about how the ARVN troops were battle proven in Laos which due solely to the freedom of the press we know to be false...
...immediate purpose of Lam Son 719 never was to "protect" withdrawing U.S. troops, even though that has been the longer-range justification advanced most often by the Administration. From the start, Richard Nixon's own top advisers described Lam Son-and the parallel thrust by 20,000 ARVN troops into Cambodia-mainly as an opportunity to reap some short-term gains. One important objective was to shore up the embattled regime in Cambodia by taking further pressure off the Cambodian army to the south. Another was to blunt Communist capability to wage offensives in South Viet Nam, particularly...
...have several weeks to recoup before the monsoon completely closes the trail. To win this temporary advantage, the allies have paid dearly. Though the U.S. toll has been relatively light-69 dead or missing, 64 wounded, 73 helicopters destroyed-the South Vietnamese suffered considerable casualties. Saigon admits to 918 ARVN dead, but unofficial estimates put the toll closer to 2,000 crack troops dead or missing and another 4,000 wounded. Compared with Cambodia, Lam Son has so far yielded only one-fourth as many captured enemy weapons, one-half as much ammunition, one-fifth as much rice and about...
VIETNAMIZATION. President Nixon recently quoted Abrams as saying that, in Laos, ARVN has proved it can "hack it." It is true that battles like last week's bloody struggles at Fire Base Lolo and Landing Zone Brown show that South Vietnamese troops can summon considerable courage, even when outnumbered 3 to 1 or more. Yet it is also clear that the key to ARVN survival in Laos has been the lavish use of U.S. airpower. For their part, senior South Vietnamese officers say that Laos has exposed some leadership problems even in crack ARVN units, and the lesson, they...