Word: cannoneering
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...cannon is hardly the weapon to use against an antiwar demonstrator; a flamethrower is not the way to fend off ghetto rioters. Since the training emphasis for Army Guardsmen has been on weapons of war-for the federal role-it is no surprise that they were ill-prepared to cope with the summer's disturbances in America's city streets. The Guard in Newark and Detroit was confronted with organized arson, mass looting and, most terrifying of all, snipers firing at Guardsmen from darkened windows. In both cities, the Guard lacked a clear-cut chain of command, suffered...
...effective is the U.S.'s monthold choke-and-destroy bombing strategy? U.S. air experts pointed to the silent cannon facing Con Thien as one example. The artillery shells that the Communists had been firing at the Marines weigh about 21 Ibs. to 107 Ibs. apiece. If the trains do not run and the trucks cannot pass, shells of that size simply do not find their way south in sufficient numbers to enable the North Vietnamese gunners to match muscle with U.S. Marines...
...howitzers shake the hilltops as they fire into the DMZ and into North Viet Nam beyond to interdict the Communist buildup and southward movement; day and night the dread cry of "Incoming!" rings through the camps as the Communists return the shells. It is a deadly duel of giant cannon more akin to World War I or Korea than to the rest of the war in Viet Nam, and it has long since potholed the rolling scrub hills and emerald paddies for miles around...
McNamara "are touting the Communist line" against guns-a ridiculous notion-we clearly indicated that the Communists jumped on the anti-gun bandwagon. Contrary to your implication that The American Rifleman accepts ads for "submachine guns, silencers, antitank guns, cannon and Nazi insignia," it steadfastly rejects all such advertising. Submachine guns and silencers, by the way, are illegal under U.S. gun laws that the NRA helped to pass...
Worst of all, the fight seemed to settle nothing. Both sides went off to lick their wounds, buy fresh armaments and ammunition, and presumably have another go at the flower power struggle with all cannon blazing...