Word: counterguerrilla
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...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...