Word: fank
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Flexibility. Throughout the Communist offensive, the fighting spirit of the national army, FANK (for Forces Armees Nationales Kampochea), has steadily declined. On the other hand, the effectiveness of the 80,000-man Communist fighting force, composed of North Vietnamese, Viet Cong, Khmer Rouge and other local groups, has sharply improved. The U.S. expected that the bombing that it resumed on Feb. 9 would force the Communists to interrupt their offensive by mid-March in order to regroup. Instead they showed greater tactical flexibility than ever, cutting off the supply routes almost at will...
Ladies of the Day. The Communists do not seem to be interested in taking Phnom-Penh; there are no enemy troops at the gates. Rather, they seem intent on using as few troops as possible to pin down as much of Cambodia's FANK (for Forces Armées Nationales Khmères) as possible. Only one-fourth of the 40,000 Communist troops in Cambodia are toying with the capital's supply routes; the rest are trying to carve out staging areas in northeast Cambodia and reconstruct supply routes into South Viet...