Word: counterguerrilla
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...