Word: combatant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rand Corp., the noted U.S. think tank. His experience in Malaya convinced Thompson that counterinsurgency does not require massive forces, large-scale bombing or continual pursuit of the enemy. He contends that such tactics play into the hands of guerrillas by increasing casualties and enlarging the scope of the combat. Thompson emphasizes localized "police" actions to protect the population against guerrilla attacks and to ferret out subversives. That proved easier in Malaya, where the terrorists were often ethnically different from the local population, than in Viet Nam, where friend and foe may be indistinguishable. The Malaya guerrillas also...
...career officer who has seen combat is in fact much more likely than a civilian juror to understand the strain on the G.I.s at My Lai. Professor Paul Liacos of Boston University Law School believes that Galley's fellow officers may well resist pressures from above to make him a scapegoat. Moreover, says Lia-cos, such men are "usually sophisticated compared with most juries, and it is harder to sway them by emotionalism...
...allow the issue an undeserved partiality. The village supposedly was a haven for Viet Cong. The people were probably sympathizers with the V.C., and perhaps their direct aid contributed to American combat deaths...
Nixon told the Senator that he wants to "virtually eliminate" American involvement in Viet Nam by 1972. To meet this goal, he will pull out "nearly all" of the ground combat troops before the end of 1970; he believes that American casualties will have become "insignificant" by then. At the end of 1971, he intends to have withdrawn most of the combat support units as well. Thus, by election year 1972, the U.S. would have substantially fewer than 40,000 soldiers, serving only as advisers, in Viet...
...period in which our people need to be as concerned by internal dangers to our free society as by any probable combination of external threats." The report cites a number of grave social ills, from racial discrimination to "the dislocation of human identity" caused by an affluent society. To combat a rising tide of violence, the commission called on the Government to reduce military spending as soon as the Viet Nam War is over and to increase money for general welfare programs by $20 billion a year...