Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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MANY SOUTH VIETNAMESE opponents of the Thieu regime were skeptical of the American rationale for negotiations. They could not reconcile the American desire to prevent Vietnam from falling into the hands of "World Communism" with the United State's insistence on negotiations with the communists to break the battlefield deadlock. Ironically, even Thieu was fond of saying that the Americans lost patience at the most inopportune moments...
...reduce his fund allocations. Yet, as the French scholar Philippe Devillers and an official on leave from the U.S. embassy in Saigon both impressed on me, the only laws that the United States respects in Vietnam are the gun and the piaster. Wars that cannot be won on the battlefield can be dragged on a minimal cost. Thieu may last for another eight years if he can stir up enough support from the right-wing chauvinists, Jean Lacouture, a French scholar and journalist, said...
...food, water and medical supplies. An Israeli task force, crossing the canal in the opposite direction, had surrounded the city of Suez and rolled up the flanks of units protecting the Third Army. As a result of such maneuvers, troops of the United Nations Emergency Force moving into the battlefield area to keep the peace found it hard to find the lines. In some places, the blue-helmeted U.N. troops discovered Egyptians and Israelis a scant 30 yds. away from one another. In other places, the lines were kilometers apart...
Some basic questions have already been raised by experts about conventional ideas of how to deploy armor and airpower on the battlefield. Ian Smart, deputy director of Britain's Royal Institute of International Affairs, notes that "Soviet technology in Arab hands has consigned to history" an era in which the "tank and aircraft ruled the battlefield." The introduction of new highly mobile and simply operated antiaircraft and antitank missiles, Smart argues, "marks a transformation that recalls the way in which the longbow enabled the English foot soldier of the 14th century to overcome the mounted knight. The Arab guiding...
...little to help the Palestinian cause. When the Arabs started to suffer defeats on the battlefield, Egypt's President Anwar Sadat jumped, with what many Palestinians felt was unseemly haste, at the cease-fire proposals. Observes a Western Arabist in Jerusalem: "It seems as if the guerrillas have been almost completely bypassed. The Egyptians seem almost completely preoccupied with recovering lost territory in Sinai, and the Syrians in getting back to the Golan Heights. Nobody is paying more than lip service to the Palestinian cause...