Word: counter
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...been no formal declaration of war anywhere since World War II, the Pentagon counts 164 "internationally significant outbreaks of violence" in the past eight years alone. The U.S. has had to rush troops to Thailand and Lebanon to relieve external pressures, to Panama and the Dominican Republic to counter insurrection from within. It has confronted mortal challenge in Cuba and Berlin. Where the choice once seemed to be between peace and universal conflagration, the world is now experiencing a series of bloodletting skirmishes instead...
...Vietnam affects ROTC in other ways. For the first time, ROTC cadets are learning counter-insurgency, now a standard part of both the military and Marine curricula. In Mil. Sci. 2hf for instance, cadets take a unit on the basic tactics of guerrilla warfare. Their June final has included questions like, "You are an infantry captain directed to command a combat patrol consisting of three rifle squads and two mortars. Your mission is to attack and seize the hamlet in the following sketch. State your plans." The sketch which follows contains areas marked "jungle," and a body of water labelled...
Last fall Harvard's Army ROT unit formed a counter-guerilla platoon. About 15 or 20 cadets continue to practice bridge-building, ambus demolition, and small-group movements as an extra-curricular active for which they get no ROTC credit...
Harvard's ROTC faculty, however deny that the counter-insurgency instruction is a preparation of officers for Vietnam. They point out that counter-insurgency should be a part of modern military training, even if the United States is not fighting a guerilla...
...December of 1940 the Committee for Militant Peace Action conducted a mass demonstration in the Yard and 400 students, teachers, and workers proclaimed "1941 shall not be 1917." Approximately 100 members of the Militant Aid to Britain Committee quickly organized a counter-rally and crashed through the pacifist picket lines singing "There Shall Always Be an England" and carrying posters which read "pacifists are yellow." The Action group replied by chanting "keep America out of war," and by passing out "the Yanks are not coming" buttons...