Word: counterguerrilla
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SEALS are Navymen with sea, air and land capability, trained for "unconventional warfare." Tell that to the Marines, who have always practiced it. The new U.S. emphasis on counterguerrilla training is shown in six pages of color photos. (See THE NATION...
...Situation Stabilized." To find out what more needs to be done to strengthen Diem's troops, already being advised and trained in counterguerrilla tactics by some 4,000 U.S. military personnel. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara flew to Hawaii last week for firsthand reports from his Pacific military leaders. After the conference, McNamara reported: "The situation now seems to be stabilized in so far as Communist advances are concerned.'' This in itself was a big improvement over the Communists' long record of village-by-village victory in South Viet Nam. Before going to Hawaii for the meeting...
...chemical fertilizer, cut an enemy's throat (Peking radio calls the operators "Killer Commandos"), live off the land. The all-important aim is to elicit support from the local people by promises, threats, bribes, or by any other means. The Fort Bragg school is broadening its training in counterguerrilla warfare, numbers among its students officers from Latin American and Southeast Asian countries. "Once a guerrilla force knows that it is being stalked by hostile guerrillas, its full attention must be focused on the destruction of this immediate threat," says the Army handbook. One aim is to persuade enemy guerrillas...
...their own without an American by-your-leave. But this hazard is small compared with the value of training Communist-threatened allies in countering the Communists' favorite infiltration tactic. One new project in the works with an eye cocked toward Castro's Cuba: a branch school for counterguerrilla instruction, to be set up in the Canal Zone. By training Latin Americans in the skills of guerrilla warfare, the U.S. hopes to put teeth into President Kennedy's promise "to work with our sister Republics to free the Americas of all foreign domination and tyranny...