Word: counterguerrilla
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ballooned to bigger-than-life proportions last week-and was as quickly exploded. Over the Communist-dominated district of Ben Cat rendezvoused the largest helicopter armada in the history of warfare-96 choppers carrying rockets, machine guns and 1,000 assault troops. Supported by 4,000 infantrymen, Rangers and counterguerrilla squads, the attack force hoped to encircle an estimated 1,500 to 2,000 Viet Cong "main force" troops who two weeks earlier had mauled four government battalions in a carefully executed ambush...
Preoccupied with the war in Viet Nam, the U.S. sometimes forgets that a similar struggle against Red rebels was won. in the Philippines. Under relentless pressure from President Ramon Magsaysay's counterguerrilla forces, Philippine Communist Leader Luis Taruc surrendered a decade ago and accepted amnesty, ceding command of 56,000 remaining Hukbalahap guerrillas to Jesus Lava, a wiry physician...
...engine World War II bomber originally designated the A26. About 100 of these planes were sent in after the U.S. entered Viet Nam in earnest in 1961, chiefly because 1) owing to slow speeds and short turning radii, they could be adapted to the close-support missions needed in counterguerrilla warfare, and 2) they were available...
Hilsman did not have the same rapport with Johnson, and he displayed a remarkable talent for getting other U.S. officials mad at him. His aggressive, abrasive personality hindered the teamwork necessary for policy coordination. He liked to give lectures on how to fight counterguerrilla warfare to Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Maxwell Taylor-much to Taylor's disgust. When Hilsman quit, a State Department colleague explained: "It's a two-way deal. Roger wants to go and we-well, let's say we don't mind...
...Commandos"; the Navy terms it "unconventional warfare," is training its "SEALS" for sea. air and land capability. The Marines are inclined to scoff-in public. Says Assistant Marine Commandant Lieut. General John C. Munn: "Some 35 years ago. when I entered the Marine Corps, we were engaged in counterguerrilla operations in Nicaragua. This is neither new nor sensational." Yet the Marines have quietly stepped up their guerrilla training, now require all recruits to spend nearly half their time acquiring the skills of the twilight zone...