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Protective Reaction. As a result, U.S. battlefield tactics have undergone little more than semantic changes. Washington no longer uses the hawkish words "maximum pressure" to describe the allied pursuit of the Communists. The new term is "protective reaction," which has a less aggressive ring to it. In fact, the U.S. still continues to seek the enemy-but the enemy is less evident. "In principle, we are doing precisely what we have been doing all along," explains one high-ranking U.S. officer. "Lull? What lull?" asks a G.I. at a fire base near Saigon. "We still patrol every day." Although large...
There is, however, a growing U.S. preoccupation with the "Vietnamization" of the war. American commanders are spending twice as much time on pacification and training of Vietnamese troops as they did only a month ago. Increasingly, the Vietnamese handle a larger share of patrol duty. That fact is not only reflected in lower U.S. casualties but also in relatively unchanged ARVN losses over the past month: during the last reporting period, they lost 290 men killed, almost three times the number of American dead...
Legitimate Fears The overriding social task for the U.S. is to achieve ra cial justice and heal the most serious breach in American so ciety since the Civil War. The hard fact is that this will demand sacrifices by all white Americans, including the lower middle class. But no permanent domestic accord can be reached if the white lower middle class remains per suaded that it is being called upon for more than its fair share of those sacrifices. The Kerner commission cited "white racism" as the principal cause of racial violence. Up to a point, the charge is just...
What can be done for white lower-middle-class Americans? To some extent, many seem reassured by the mere fact that the Nixon Administration is in power. Nixon is their man in style, tone and convictions. Psychologically, at least, he has made some gestures in their direction. He has said and done less than his predecessor about helping blacks - which from the national viewpoint will probably prove to be a dangerous tactic in the long run. He has taken tough positions on law enforcement and student unrest - without, how ever, going as far as the forgotten American wants. Nixon...
...challenge lies in the fact that lower-middle-class whites and blacks actually share quite similar economic needs: better jobs, better schools, better services, better police protection, relief from taxes. Ideally, they should band to gether, employing their collective economic and political strength to advance their common interests. Is this Utopian...