Word: cambodia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...American bases. Of the remaining 100,000 combat troops, only two out of every three units can safely be committed in any single sweep-the reserve must be ready to strike in relief or as a blocking force. Moreover, as Birmingham demonstrated, thousands of Communist troops use "neutral" Cambodia as a convenient hideout whenever American troops push into the vicinity...
...Debacle. Still, U.S. air action did little to hamper Red infiltration. Heavy pounding of North Vietnamese roads and bridges has only driven the Communists to sea or else to Cambodia. Over the past month, U.S. jets have been sinking sampans, junks and other vessels at record rates-1,000 in the past month alone. But the biggest prize last week fell to the U.S. Coast Guard, which has been patrolling South Viet Nam's coast since last summer. The Coast Guard cutter Point Grey intercepted a 120-ft., 100-ton freighter-steaming without running lights and laden with ammunition...
...left the Laotian airstrip at Pakse at 10:25 a.m., flying at 2,500 ft. Some 23 minutes later, my pilot announced: 'We are now at the Cambodian border.' Two minutes later we had located the trail. It snaked out of Cambodia, clear as a road map. The area was flat and only spottily foliaged. I could see the Se Kong River in the background. A note I made at the time says: 'No question about it. From the river going east [toward South Viet Nam] is a large road. The trail winds and turns, the trees...
...Trail. The trail bristles with 12.7-mm. antiaircraft emplacements, and other sources say that there are at least 30 Viet Cong supply depots strung along its length. A dozen North Vietnamese regiments are currently poised for action in South Viet Nam, and of these, at least four are inside Cambodia. Half of the remaining eight are within easy marching distance of the Cambodian sanctuary and the supply lines of the Sihanouk Trail. Its strategic value to the Communists is as an alternate route to the Ho Chi Minh Trail. This main southbound network has been improved by 200 miles...
...Since Cambodia's Sihanouk now offers the Reds active support, he is risking a widening of the war. If the Communist monsoon offensive is to be checked before the rains come, both trails must be severed-or at least heavily interdicted-before they join up in a ribbon of men and supplies that cannot be cut. Though there is no indication that the U.S. will cease to respect Sihanouk's phony neutrality, his policy inevitably carries with it the chance that more and more of the bullets of war will spill over into Cambodia itself...