Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilization itself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts-for democracy, for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own governments, for the rights and liberties of small nations, for a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations...
...heads Michigan Gover nor George Romney's Washington head quarters. Predicts F. Clifton White, who organized Barry Goldwater's first-ballot victory at the 1964 convention: "Nobody's going to get a hammerlock on this thing at an early date. It'll be a fight to the finish...
Minh [North Vietnamese] and the Viet Cong," said Sihanouk, "the Americans have condemned us. But now the Khmer Viet Minh [Cambodian Communists] have returned their gratitude by saying that I am a traitor and a country seller." He mournfully announced that Cambodia must prepare to fight the ungrateful Reds in the north, added that the country might have to close its embassies abroad to buy arms. After all, he said, "how can we ask China and Russia for ammunition to fight the Khmer Reds?" As for the U.S., "with the Americans we absolutely do not want a reconciliation." None...
Under the Fan. The tactic was evolved to cope with an enemy adept at hiding in his own terrain and reluctant to fight unless the odds appeared overwhelmingly in his favor. In past wars and the earlier days of the Viet Nam conflict, the U.S. conducted patrols for reconnaissance and intelligence purposes only. Engagement with the enemy was to be avoided for the sound reason that a patrol seldom consists of a unit much larger than a 30-man platoon, and often is as small as a squad...
...mobility and firepower have so changed the context that the U.S. patrol is never really alone. It thus can probe aggressively deeper and deeper into Viet Cong sanctuaries until the Viet Cong are forced to come out and fight. Helicopters lift artillery batteries forward to keep an advancing patrol always in range of the "fan," or radius, of the gun's shells. Jet fighter-bombers always stand ready to be up and over any target in South Viet Nam within minutes in support of an attacked patrol. If neither shells nor bombs are enough, the helicopter can also bring...