Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...away. About 2,500 were shuttled by air to Anchorage 260 miles to the south. Hundreds of huskies and other breeds kept by dog-loving Alaskans, left to survive on their own, raised an eerie cacophony of howls through the nights. As the dogs grew hungrier, humans had to fight them off with shotguns...
...believe that you, as President of this great country, are in part responsible for the death of our son because of your refusal to permit our airmen to bomb strategic targets in North Viet Nam." The doubt was reinforced by former President Dwight Eisenhower. "If you are going to fight a war," said Ike last week, "I believe in winning it. You should get everything you can and use it just as fast as you can and get it over with. What do politicians know about fighting...
Viet Nam is for men with double vision. There has never been a war quite like it. Tt is two kinds of combat against a two-faced enemy, and the combination is deadly. One fight pits the U.S. and its allies against North Vietnamese and main-force Viet Cong regular soldiers whose primary mission is as old as war itself: to kill and maim the opposing armies. The second fight is waged by a second enemy, the clandestine Viet Cong guerrilla. His uniform is the peasant's black pajamas, and his mission is a Communist innovation: to steal people...
That slim decline in strength has not noticeably disheartened the Viet Cong. To Americans, who are often troubled by a feeling that "our Vietnamese don't fight as hard as their Vietnamese," the Viet Cong's motivations and methods have long had an aura of mystery and mystique. How and why do they hang on so persistently under constant harassment from bombs and artillery, while their manpower dwindles and their food supplies shrink? A large part of the answer was supplied when the U.S. captured a massive cache of fresh insights into the activities of an exasperatingly stubbon enemy. Last...
Learning to Fight. Then the U.S. stepped in with its dramatic buildup of American troops. Victory was snatched away from the Communists; Hanoi and the Viet Cong were presented with vast new problems, both military and political. When word spread through village and hamlet grapevines that the Americans were coming in force, suddenly the Viet Cong no longer looked like such sure winners. As a result, the V.C. had to start working overtime to keep large areas of the countryside from drifting out of their control...