Word: combat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They wear blue berets and brandish baseball bats. They profess fear of genocide and want to train their youth for combat. Some have been involved in campus brawls and dustups at political rallies. Last week they ran a $2,790 newspaper ad in New York showing six young men standing before a building with clubs in hand. In an age of Black Panthers, white vigilantes, and apparently millions of armed and angry individuals, there would already seem to be a surfeit of quasi-military partisans. Threat, however, tends to breed counterthreat. Out of the people traditionally identified with the word...
...swing," camp life is not all camp. The prisoners are soon polarized into two groups. On the one hand are the Super Japanese, paying homage to the Emperor and extolling Yamato da-mashii, the Japanese fighting spirit. On the other are Super Americans, holding war-bond rallies and combat-volunteer recruitment drives...
...Lyndon Johnson to call a partial bombing halt in North Viet Nam last March-a decision that led directly to the opening of negotiations in Paris. Now, in a Foreign Affairs article, Clifford proposed that 100,000 U.S. servicemen be pulled out this year and that all American ground-combat forces leave South Viet...
...military for their developments. It is possible that an enemy might refrain from attacking out of fear that the U.S. would respond with its own CBW, even though the U.S. nuclear deterrent would seem to be a more effective persuader. Chemical and biological weapons offer an additional combat option-something to occupy the considerable middle ground between conventional weapons and nuclear warheads. Such an option may or may not be an advantage. Defenders of the program contend that certain forms of CBW could make combat relatively humane. Theoretically, chemicals could be perfected to the point where the enemy would...
...troops under their command. West Germany has no operational general staff, and all its strategic plans and commands come from NATO headquarters in Belgium. Unlike other NATO powers, which allot part of their armed forces to NATO but keep command of the remainder, every single West German combat unit is under NATO command. Although a number of West German officers are mixed in with other allied officers in the NATO command structure, in practical terms the Bundeswehr is an extension of the U.S. Seventh Army. U.S. Lieut. General Donald Bennett, commanding VII Corps in Stuttgart, notes that Germany...