Word: combating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...division could operate within the present logistic base in Viet Nam, with only a small (10,000 men) supply detachment of its own, two or three divisions would require a much broader support base-and many more men. Thus, since it would need little new logistic support, one more combat division could be had for 25,000 men. But two would require a whole new logistic base and need 80,000; three would require 120,000. The dollar cost would shoot up; a 1967-68 budget deficit already expected to reach at least $13 billion could easily reach $25 billion...
...long series of seemingly minor steps. Each of these steps, at the time, seemed more attractive -- less pregnant with domestic political controversy and criticism -- than the alternative which was to call a firm halt on our involvement. The aggregate of these individual steps -- more weapons, more advisers, a combat role for our men, progressive increases in our troop strength, bombing of North Vietnam, a widening choice of targets -- is larger by far than the sum of the individual parts. The resulting involvement of the Asian mainland is not a development that all who asked or acquiesced in the individual actions...
...high-powered conventional rifles. V-Ls can be fired chemically and electrically, as well as with hot-air jets, making them adaptable to a large variety of weapons systems. Elimination of cartridges would also solve a troublesome problem in tank turrets, where hot shell casings pile up quickly during combat. And V-L ammunition would be ideal for aircraft cannon, which sometimes jam when high-G forces produced during maneuvers prevent the ejection of cartridges...
...young women and one old one (Beta Poničanová), who wander like nomads over the sere landscape. The nubile girls have never seen a man; their leader can scarcely remember what one looks like. Equipped with some of the trappings of the defunct civilization-tin cans, rifles, combat boots-they live like savages, telling the years by counting the rings of a tree trunk, hunting by blasting fish out of the river water with grenades...
Though it is fashionable nowadays to deride American altruism as "unconscious imperialism," or worse, the U.S. had realized-even before combat in Europe ended on May 8, 1945-that as the world's wealthiest nation and the only major power that had endured the war unscathed, it would inevitably have to shoulder the burden of reconstruction. Until early 1947, Marshall had hoped that the Soviet Union would cooperate; he later offered aid to war-wracked Russia and Eastern Europe...