Word: assaulted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...leaders to conduct America's affairs and the competence of our military professionals to direct the war effort. When an American ship is attacked on the high seas and we make no reply other than the inevitable mouthings of "diplomacy"; when we expend lives in an assault on the strategic Hill 881N and then return the prize to the enemy when we have won it, enabling him to continue to threaten our base; when we apologize to "neutral" Cambodia for intruding on its territory while battling an enemy which lives there-when all these idiotic blunders occur...
...strategist of the current offensive. Indeed, there are some chilling parallels between Giap's winter-spring offensive in 1954 and the current Red strategy. While the Communists built up their strength at Dienbienphu to 40,000 men-the estimated force now around Khe Sanh-they simultaneously launched assaults against the French throughout Indo-China. The Tet offensive was a similar widespread assault by the Communists which may have been aimed, at least in part, at pinning down U.S. troops in cities far from Khe Sanh...
...most of the countryside to the Communists?the very core of Galbraith's plan?would not embolden and stiffen them rather than give them greater reason to come to the conference table. Secure in the countryside and immune from interdiction by air, they could husband their forces and then assault the allied-held cities with far greater strength than they showed in the past two weeks. Nor is it true that the Viet Cong alone guard the grail of Vietnamese nationalism. They are simply better organized than the hopelessly fragmented moderates, who also qualify as genuine nationalists...
...happened, or why; nor was there any certainty that it would not happen again. The full significance of the Communist general offensive still hung on the next move by North Viet Nam's Defense Minister Vo Nguyen Giap-and whether he would or would not mount an assault on the U.S. Marine position at Khe Sanh...
...Harvard track team unleashes an all-out assault today and tomorrow to capture its fifth consecutive indoor title in the Greater Boston Championships...