Word: counterattack
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...North ern Army Group: General Sir Gerald Templer, 55, able, hard-boiled British professional who in two years of jungle fighting has mastered the Communist threat to rubber-rich Malaya. Austere and dedicated, Sandhurstman Templer found Malaya in despair, with the Red guerrillas everywhere pressing harder; his counterattack matched their ferocity, in two years reduced the average monthly toll of murders and other "incidents" from...
...renewed attack. Second, the United Nations forces have promised that a breach of the Korean armistice "would be so grave that, in all probability, it would not be possible to confine hostilities within the frontiers of Korea." Added General Ike, in a thinly veiled promise of an atomic counterattack: "Our growing national air power possesses greater mobility and greater striking force than ever before . . . The U.S. military forces in the Far East will be maintained at appropriate levels ... to fulfill the commitments which the U.S. has undertaken in that area...
Dulles drafted his counterattack and took it to the President, who gave it his enthusiastic endorsement. At his press conference, Dulles lashed out: "We do not propose to throw away those precious assets [of mutual respect and friendship] by blustering and domineering methods." Other free nations, he said, will be treated "as sovereign equals" and not as "our satellites." To dramatize the point to McCarthy's Wisconsin constituents. Dulles warned that Milwaukee and other cities "would be sitting ducks for atomic bombs" without early-warning radar "facilities in the friendly countries which are nearer the Soviet Union...
...equipped. Though they sometimes fought gallantly, the green Filipino troops all too often panicked and ran. Nonetheless, all troops fought well enough to bring the Japanese to a dead stop on Bataan in the last week of February 1942. One high-ranking Japanese officer later admitted that a U.S. counterattack could have pushed through the Japanese lines and retaken Manila...
...week, carrying more than 1,000 paratroopers (including some Vietnamese) to Dienbienphu. They made a neat drop and took the enemy, about 800 strong, wholly by surprise. After a series of sharp fire fights in the tall elephant grass, the Communists were routed and dispersed. They launched a suicidal counterattack by one company to cover the retreat of their main force. Though the French said they killed more than a hundred of the enemy and that their own losses were much smaller, they did not come off unscathed. Some were cut down by a group of Communists out for mortar...