Word: combative
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Practice. Much of the accumulated U.S. guerrilla combat knowledge is being poured into the frustrating fight in South Viet Nam, where Air Commandos, Special Forces and SEALS are all advising the Viet Nam regulars. The advisers, in turn, are learning valuable lessons. Already they have found that the new Armalite .223-cal. rifle, twice rejected by the U.S. Army for general use, is ideal because of its light Fiberglas stock and high velocity at short range. They have found that lives can be saved by mounting machine guns on helicopters to protect other choppers as they land troops in pursuit...
Making films about World War II is like concocting compounds in organic chemistry. There are roughly half a dozen entertaining ways to kill a soldier, nine or ten basic acts of Nazi inhumanity, perhaps fifteen kinds of heroism in combat, and at least a hundred bits of cliched battle dialogue. To put together a new movie, the writer and director have only to choose several ingredients from each grouping. Allowing for duplications, countless combinations can be made. Very few are worth the trouble...
...greater say-so about its spending programs. In the TFX controversy, Anderson spoke out against McNamara even more bluntly than General Curtis LeMay, who, it was announced, will be reappointed as Air Force Chief of Staff. Anderson insisted that military men, not civilians, should decide on specifications for combat aircraft. Finally, Anderson did not get along with Navy Secretary Fred Korth, who recommended that he be dropped as the Navy's chief...
...wish that he could be replaced by a more flexible man. But they admit that there is no other leader in sight. The regime tends to exaggerate its successes and minimize its failures, insists that its airborne attacks have finally "disheartened" the Reds and "caught them off balance." Many combat-seasoned U.S. advisers think that this is hardly enough. "Hell," says one, "if all we did was to keep them off balance on Guadalcanal, we'd still be there." The Coaching War. Strategically and politically, of course, the war for Viet Nam has little in common with the Battle...
...passing of a golden age into something more serious and plodding, I am not so sure it would last. After all, the Crimson has always survived and benefited from both types, the Cleveland Amorys and the Anthony Lewises. Besides which Mr. Weil will have all next year to combat the wonks with his own graceful style, that is, if he can be cajoled into writing for the paper more than has been his wont...