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...mean a strike elsewhere. The prospect remained for more bloodshed in a war in which more deaths seemed pointless-and it cried out for negotiation. Yet, as so often in this agonizing conflict, there would obviously be no bargaining until the latest phase of escalation was felt on the battlefield. A tantalizing hope of a diplomatic breakthrough that might have avoided the showdown had flamed briefly, then flickered...
...invasion by increased bombing, or even a blockade of Haiphong or a Dieppe-style raid* by South Vietnamese forces on the northern coast. For all that, a hard fact remained: with the Paris negotiations suspended again, the next turns in the war could only be decided on the battlefield in a contest between Vietnamese...
...moment, the answers were all held by General Giap, North Viet Nam's legendary lord of the battlefield. More than likely, he was methodically measuring the odds in terms of his oft-repeated principle: "Strike to win, strike only if success is certain; if it is not, then don't strike...
...Harvard. Kissinger and Huntington are not alone: Harvard professors Roger Fisher (Law), George Kistiakowsky (Chemistry, Emeritus). Tom Cheatham (Engineering and Applied Physics) and Edward Purcell (Physics) have served on committees advising the government on military strategy and technology. Fisher and Kistiakowsky are among the originators of the "automated battlefield" program which now blankers Indochina with blind, mechanized destruction. Harvey Brooks Dean of the Division of Engineering and Applied Physics, is on the board of Raytheon, the largest military contractor in Massachusetts--and this is only the most glaring of numerous interlocks between the Harvard faculty and local warmakers...
...long term, the campaign is less likely to be significant for its battlefield successes or failures than for the fact that it has returned an important North Vietnamese presence to South Viet Nam for the first time in more than two years. Radio Hanoi was openly urging its forces on. Said one florid broadcast last week: "From the fatherland's heart, blood keeps pouring south. Like a huge army, the entire nation is going south through the mountains and the jungles to the front...