Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...like a Southeast Asian version of The Grand Illusion. The weird gallantry seemed even more bizarre after years during which both sides have sometimes collected the ears of the dead and otherwise mutilated corpses. Perhaps with the end in sight, there is some impulse to introduce a belated battlefield politesse. The new policy of helicoptering in a chaplain to hold funerals for the enemy took effect when Brigadier General James F. Hamlet assumed command of the division's 3rd Brigade. Said one brigade officer: "The general feels it is the humane thing...
Arthur Fink, a graduate student and a volunteer for the American Friends Service Committee, narrated "The Automated Battlefield," a NEARMIC slide presentation which depicts camouflaged anti-personnel mines, bombs guided by television signals, and helicopters equipped for sighting targets at night which have been designed to compensate for the reduction of actual American fighting manpower...
William Haseltine, another graduate student working with NEARMIC, stated that the technology now in use was developed by academic scientists working in Cambridge in 1966 who believed the electronic battlefield might actually end the war and "on American terms...
...large-scale warfare. A successful settlement can also inaugurate a process of political accommodation through which the various elements of Vietnamese society may eventually be brought together into a functioning polity. American objectives and American expectations of what can be achieved at the conference table and on the battlefield should, correspondingly, be based on the realities of power and the opportunities for accommodation...
...lower end of the socio-economic scale is by and large not translatable into political or military goals. Typically, this antipathy is virulent but not buttressed by ideology or material interests; lower-class anti-Communists decry the government's softness on Communism or its deceptive portrayal of battlefield progress, but rarely do they make the positive commitment to keep the world safe for America's brand of democracy. Generally disenfranchised from the prosperity of America, they possess no sense of noblesse oblige. Often alienated and debased, they have no sacred national image to protect. Their own chances for economic advancement...