Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...These boys may be over 21, but they won't be men until they realize that no war can be fought at a convenient time or place. We have only today's war, and it must be fought today, on today's battlefield...
...Legend like Uncle. The relative quiescence of the Communists on the battlefield is less satisfying than it is annoying to U.S. commanders, who are spoiling for a fight they are confident they can win-and for an end to the suspense as to what the Reds will do next. The North Vietnamese eminence grise with the answer to that question is tiny, plump General Vo Nguyen Giap (pronounced Zhop), 55, Commander in Chief of the North Vietnamese army, Hanoi's Defense Minister and Deputy Premier, who shares with China's Mao Tse-tung a reputation as the world...
Best Reading 1066: THE STORY OF A YEAR, by Denis Butler. It is the year of Hastings, and the story of the battlefield where one King (William the Conqueror) was spawned and another (King Harold I of England) died...
There are few militants left among the people, Nhat Hanh continued, and many South Vietnamese soldiers desert because it is safer in jail than on the battlefield...
...global vision, still thought it easy for the West to regard itself as the center of the world. To many of his era the periphery of that world lay somewhere in the jungle, well beyond the enclave of civilization. But yesterday's jungle is often today's battlefield. Nowadays, few sophisticated liberal experts on international affairs would regard any nation, even those known only to stamp collectors, as too distant or too obscure to matter...