Word: arvn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Still, the question remains whether ARVN (Army of the Republic of Viet Nam) will be able to hold its own against the battle-seasoned North Vietnamese. Because of the reduced level of enemy activity, ARVN has not yet faced a major test. Yet in the one sustained battle that it has fought against the North Vietnamese since the U.S. withdrawal got under way in earnest, ARVN performed encouragingly well...
Presidential Pressure. The battle was an eight-week engagement involving the Special Forces camps of Bu Prang and Due Lap in the Central Highlands along the Cambodian border. At least eight battalions under the command of the ARVN 23rd division, which had failed twice in the past two years to repulse enemy attacks, fended off three seasoned North Vietnamese regiments, numbering about 5,000 men. Last week, as the Communists withdrew to base camps farther north in Cambodia...
South Vietnamese claimed that they had killed 1,519 enemy soldiers while losing only 285 themselves. Though the enemy casualty figures were probably inflated, there was no doubt that ARVN troopers had blocked the North Vietnamese from accomplishing their goals: 1) to take one or both of the camps by Christmas; 2) to force the U.S. to commit ground troops to the action, and 3) to discredit the ARVN...