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...From 773 advisers at the start of the decade, the U.S. force grew to more than 16,000 under Kennedy and half a million under Lyndon Johnson today. The war that they are fighting, cries Galbraith, is "perhaps the worst miscalculation in our history," and he sees the Viet Cong's bloody rampage through the cities of South Viet Nam as complete vindication of his position. "We were winning," he argues, "only in the speeches of our generals and ambassadors...
Galbraith insists that the U.S. is in conflict "not alone with the Communists, but with a strong sense of Vietnamese nationalism" that has been captured by the guerrillas. Since military power is ineffective in the face of this intangible force, the U.S. should accept Viet Cong domination in those areas where the enemy now holds sway, and contest only those parts of the country that are controlled by the government or are necessary to assure the security of American forces. In many respects, this strategy closely resembles General James Gavin's enclave theory. Galbraith maintains, however, that his proposal differs...
...recent Viet Cong attacks had trapped Mendelsohn in Saigon for the last ten days. Although "never in personal danger" while there, Mendelsohn said that he did "hear gunfire at all times of the day and woke up two or three times a night to the sound of explosions...
Unable to penetrate the main chancery, the V.C. commandos ran aimlessly through the compound, firing on everything they saw. Meanwhile, small groups of Marines and MPs began arriving outside the walls of the embattled embassy. The Viet Cong burst into the embassy's consular building and various other buildings in the compound, but the Americans on the scene threw such heavy fire at them that the guerrillas were kept too busy to set off their explosives...
...those little ironies of fate that General Vo Nguyen Giap's name contains the Vietnamese words for force (Vo) and armor (Giap). The commander of North Viet Nam's armed forces and the overlord of the Viet Cong, he is a dangerous and wily foe who has become something of a legend in both Viet Nams for his stunning defeat of the French at Dienbienphu. He is one of the principal developers-along with Mao Tse-tung and Cuba's late Che Guevara-of the art of guerrilla warfare, a tactician of such talents that U.S. military...