Word: counterguerrilla
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...real name of the operation was "Exercise Dusty III," a reference to the fact that a man named Dusty Anderson owned the farm being theoretically defended in a counterguerrilla maneuver by two helicopters and 20 air-assault specialists. For the purposes of the drill, the Army gave Dusty Anderson's farm a special designation "Patrolandia." An error in Soldiers, an Army magazine, changed the a to e, and thus an inflammatory rumor was born - and spread...
...level, the Bundys, McNamaras, McNaughtons, Yarmolinskys, Hilsmans and Rostows enjoyed the sophisticated cocktail parties and the company of Kennedys. They aimed witty dinnertime barbs at 30-year officers who would never understand the intricacies of counterguerrilla warfare. The more junior Ellsbergs were jockeying to break into that inner circle, while enjoying the kick of being so close. Yet those paper theories of outwitting Hanoi and outfoxing guerrillas did not work. Nor did sustained bombing or half a million U.S. troops. When some of the frustrated technocrats visited Viet Nam to see what had gone wrong, they discovered that those body...
...prudent bankers naturally felt that they had to put some limits on the extent of their help, and in setting those limits they may have developed a kind of counterguerrilla guide for "raided" businessmen. Shortly after Nader's visit, Wriston told his officers that the investigators should be given the same information as stockholders and newsmen. In particular, he warned them against saying anything that would help the bank's competitors or violate a customer's privacy. Bank attorneys noted that the latter precaution was a legal necessity...
...unit war against Communist regulars. The South Vietnamese were to hold the countryside against the Viet Cong and pacify it. Just as Hanoi employed North Vietnamese troops to take the pressure off their men in the countryside, so the U.S. was to free the South Vietnamese for counterguerrilla civic action...
...work on plans to reorganize its forces "from top to bottom," as Ky puts it. One proposal would disband the four corps commands and the ten divisions, with their tempting opportunities for warlord graft and corruption, and create more flexible units that would specialize in pacification efforts, counterguerrilla action, and search-and-destroy missions. With U.S. help, General Vien has launched several new training programs designed to help soldiers learn everything from setting guerrilla-style ambushes to assisting villagers in building pigpens...