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...Communist force in the South today would probably require at least one million American troops, according to Hanson Baldwin of the New York Times and several Pentagon officials; most military strategists insist that a 10 to 1 ration manpower is essential for the success of search-and-destroy operations...
...contrast, ground and air combat in the South is being greatly intensified. Last week, while U.S. Army units fanned out in three big search-and-destroy operations, thousands of marines, intent on trapping a hard-core Viet Cong division, stormed a beach south of Quang Ngai in the biggest amphibious assault mounted by the U.S. since the Inchon landing in Korea...
...speculators on crime and criminal processes much more than an abused rhetoric about society's chickens coming home to roost. Subtly but tellingly, In Cold Blood dispassionately surveys the roost itself: a society in which men such as Hickock and Smith, with IQs of 130, will continue to destroy themselves and others. It is the sort of survey which makes the Police Gazette, criminologists' case histories, liberal weeklies' temporiz- ing, and the babbling reportage of slicksters such as Tom Wolfe, seem like very shallow voices...
...conclusion, I wrote: "In all likelihood, modern civilization will solve [these problems] as it is wont to do: by a reductio ad absurdiun, such as war; or by technological-administrative interventions, such as forced migration, compulsory sterilization, and stealthy pills, which invariably encroach on human dignity and freedom and destroy the few good and beautiful things that have not yet vanished in the rummage sale of ancient cultures." Your reviewer finds my views "disconcerting." Quoting only part of the above sentence, he infers that I am opposed to "oral contraceptives." It should be obvious from the complete sentence that...
...brigade set out immediately in pursuit of the retreating Reds to check out intelligence reports that seven and possibly nine 2,000-man regiments were assembling in the highlands. "I gave them their head," recalls Westmoreland, "and told them their mission was to pursue and destroy the enemy." In the foothills of the Chu Pong massif, practically in Cambodia's backyard, the brigade found its quarry. Helilifted to a spot called Landing Zone X Ray, a battalion of cavalrymen found itself smack in the midst of the 66th North Vietnamese regiment. One platoon was cut off on a ridge...