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...finally to the appropriate artillery battalion. Beyond this, ARVN's divisions are of sharply uneven quality, and its best units are apt to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Last week the crack 1st was resting in Hue while the bungling 3rd bore the brunt of the early fighting...
...sensible, weak and full of faults." He acknowledges "the blindness, the distortions, the racism, the meanness" among them, but he believes many of the same qualities are to be found in all groups. Besides, he feels special sympathy for working people because it is they who must bear the brunt of change in American society...
...casualties, to the South Vietnamese army. With the decreasing rate of American casualties and periodic reductions in the number of U.S. troops, Nixon has hoped to quiet antiwar sentiment domestically while preventing the collapse of the Saigon government. Because the South Vietnamese army is clearly unable to bear the brunt of the fighting, as the disastrous results of the invasion of Laos showed last February. Nixon must have U.S. troops to do the job for them. And the only way he can use U.S. troops without a politically damaging increase in casualties is extensive bombing of North Vietnam to hamper...
...shudder at its nightmare vision of Russian boots trampling Western Europe? Ulam offers two explanations. Americans were overcompensating for their former low estimation of the Russians--no one had thought the U.S.S.R. could long withstand the Nazi onslaught. And the West felt guilty. The Soviet Union had borne the brunt of the German attack. The British and Americans didn't want to believe that the war damage had been great enough to cripple the Russian nation. By not recognizing the extent of the damage, the West threw away its strongest bargaining counter...
...Real wages in the public sector. In common with most countries faced with inflation. Vietnam has made the Civil Service and the armed forces bear much of the brunt of inflation by holding down wages...