Word: guerilla
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...historic model of aggression, namely, that which would make it the Viet Cong today's counterpart of Hitler's Sudeten Germans, about to deliver up a stalwartly democratic Asian Czechoslovakia! Stubborn and unimaginative anti-Chamberlain-ship is perhaps as anachronistic and inept in the face of nationalist-Communist guerilla warfare as was the Braddock-Cornwallis military complex in coping with revolutionary American backwoods patriots supplied by France. American policy should reflect our full awareness of the anti-colonial, nationalist fervor that pervades great parts of Asian and Africa." (emphesis added...
...Vietnam, the U.S. must pursue a clear-and-hold policy economically. Taking tiny areas of land, it should institute land reform and education programs. This will not win a war quickly but over a decade Southeast Asia could be made invulnerable to guerilla war. Even if the policy does not win in Vietnam, it will have served a purpose rewarding from a humane point of view and necessary from a military point of view. The U.S. should protect the government from coups and seal the border by air attacks far from the China border and away from civilians; it must...
...article on Vietnam by Walter L. Coleman and L. Michael Robinson documented the dismal story of American involvement in South Vietnam. A careful reading of the New York Times establishes the indigenous character of the Viet Cong guerilla movement; it also establishes the repressive and reactionary character of the South Vietnamese regimes that we have supported over the past ten years...
...Chinese strategy of extending communism by force relies on the belief that a guerilla movement can win the sympathy of the majority of the people in a country. Our government has been trying very hard to prove this strategy correct in South Vietnam. If we wish to disprove this strategy, we should stop supporting regimes which, by their repressive character, ensure victory for guerilla movements...
...peasantry, they could only have found local support among the disinherited landlords and the remnants of the pre-war colonial administration. Attempts to re-establish the landlords failed, however, and the French were forced to fight a long and increasingly hopeless war against the Viet Minh, the peasant guerilla forces...