Word: arvn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cambodian Premier Lon Nol. Such a campaign, pitting Saigon's forces against North Vietnamese regulars and other Communist troops on the Ho Chi Minh Trail through southern Laos, would involve high stakes. Among the possibilities would be a serious defeat for the South Vietnamese army or, conversely, an ARVN victory that could close the Ho Chi Minh Trail's vital flow of Communist supplies southward. The entire situation in Indochina could change drastically...
...Government of Vietnam, the GVN, The feasibility of this settlement depends on the ability of the U. S. to convince the NLF that it would have a chance for national power, but to at the same time make such an outcome unlikely. In return for local control (no ARVN troops, no reversal of NLF land tenure decrees, local control over taxes, and acknowledgment of NLF military units as legitimate inside the areas), the NLF is expected to approve the following conditions...
SPREADING THE ALLIES THIN. The Communists have lately stepped up infiltration into I Corps, South Viet Nam's northernmost military region. Four divisions are in the area and three more remain poised just above the Demilitarized Zone. Their chief mission is to entice main-force U.S. and ARVN (Army of the Republic of Viet Nam) units into the north, which would allow Communist guerrillas more freedom to maneuver in the rest of the country...
...volunteer units, such as the Regional Forces, the Popular Forces and the People's Self-Defense Forces. They were organized after the 1968 Tet offensive to provide local security, which is essential to the pacification program. These irregulars have never been known to fight well when U.S. or ARVN regulars were not around to bolster their confidence, but lately they have been holding their own in the face of Communist attacks...
...infiltration routes in Laos and Northern Cambodia should start showing up in South Viet Nam in October, when the rainy season ends. The U.S. has already stepped up B-52 raids on the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos. Last week there were reports that a sizable force of ARVN troops and U.S. helicopters had been assembled near Kham Duc, a long-abandoned Special Forces camp near the Laotian border. But U.S. commanders insist that there are no plans for a Cambodia-style lunge into Laos. For one thing, negotiations are now under way between the Vientiane government...