Word: combating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fast deployment to underdeveloped countries-plus most of a Marine division and six Army brigades dispersed from Alaska to the Canal Zone. Many of the men now en route to Viet Nam have been there before, and some have not even enjoyed the usual two-year respite between combat tours. To prevent the thin green line from getting thinner still, the Administration may well have to put major Reserve ground components on active-duty status for the first time since the Berlin crisis of 1961. These forces would not necessarily be sent to Viet Nam, but would serve...
...soon will send at least one squadron of its latest operational fighter-bombers, F-4 Phantoms, to South Korea. Likely to follow are heavy tanks and naval combat craft. The armaments are part of a $100 million increase in the $170 million U.S. military aid program previously scheduled for South Korea this year...
...Soviets have a long way to go before they catch up with their American teachers. They lag far behind in perhaps the most important aspect of all: combat experience. Many Western experts refuse to rate the Soviet navy as a truly efficient seapower until its untested officers have been called upon to handle their complicated modern weaponry under combat conditions. Nor have the Russians yet mastered the sophisticated technique of refueling and replenishing their ships while under way, as U.S. ships do. Thus, they must spend great amounts of time in sheltered anchorages where they would be easy targets...
...accordance with the laws and customs of war." But in Viet Nam, what is a uniform? The Viet Cong dress in the black pajamas of the country peasantry or in ordinary street clothing, like Loan's victim, and wear red armbands or other identifying badges only in combat. And what, in Viet Nam, are the laws and customs...
Supplying Icebreakers. Foreseeing that few field soldiers would be able to judge those matters, the Pentagon in 1966 broadened P.W. status to include all captives, taken in or out of combat, in or out of uniform, with three exceptions: terrorists, saboteurs and spies. U.S. troops are now issued individual instruction cards spelling out how to treat prisoners (they "must be protected against violence") and even providing such icebreakers in Vietnamese as "Lay down your gun" ("Buong sung xuong"). After questioning, the prisoners are supposed to be turned over to the South Vietnamese for detention...