Word: giap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lines and jockeyed their units into fresh positions. The shifts inevitably touched off some fierce skirmishing, but both sides were, for the most part, waiting to see who would make the first major move. There were signs that, after almost six weeks of near-static defense in which General Giap has enjoyed all the initiative-and subsequently failed to exploit it-the move might well be made by the allies...
...Target. Enemy troop movements of late have led the command of General William Westmoreland to revise its estimates of the likely next big move of North Viet Nam's General Vo Nguyen Giap. North Vietnamese army units along the DMZ appear to be shifting eastward, away from Khe Sanh, toward Quang Tri City or Hué. The 304th NVA division, which was south of Khe Sanh, has been moving with truck convoys through the A Shau valley toward Hué. If Hué rather than Khe Sanh is the enemy's big target, that will not bother...
...also far easier to supply from the sea via the Perfume River. The U.S. and the South Vietnamese army have some 20,000 men within a dozen-mile radius of Hué. They hope that Giap will try to take the city again...
...Giap continues to reinforce his men as well, and to improve their equipment. Two fresh divisions have moved south across the DMZ in the past ten days, swelling Giap's forces in Viet Nam's two northernmost provinces to at least 60,000 men. With the allies drawn into defensive positions around I Corps cities and military enclaves, the NVA are now moving openly across the DMZ and down the broad coastal plain. In the Western part of I Corps and III Corps, they are even boldly paving and bulldozing roads to speed their convoys. Tank treads have...
...beloved by the Vietnamese, was being told all over Saigon last week. It dramatizes the feeling of fatalism that has been growing among many city dwellers since Tet-and thus represents a threat to the Vietnamese government that is second only to North Viet Nam's General Giap. The South Vietnamese, urban and rural alike, now find themselves caught in a violent new period of doubt-about whether the government of President Nguyen Van Thieu and Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky can endure, whether the U.S. is able to protect the population and even whether the U.S. really wants...