Word: guerillas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...underestimates troop requirements, estimates of casualty rates, and the time and geographic scope of required engagement. Politico-military analysts downplay the potential for regionalization of armed conflict in the isthmus. In particular they underestimate the implications of the Nicaraguan and Cuban commitment to provide military support to Salvadorean guerilla forces in the event of continued escalation of US involvement. No serious consideration appears to have been given to global security implications of an escalated regional conflict involving US, Cuban, Nicaraguan, Venezuelan and other participants...
...Redcoats had to come through Cambridge on their way home as well, except now they ran instead of marching, terrified by the guerilla tactics of the thousands of Americans who kept on their heels. Three Cambridge men were killed in one engagement on the retreat--Moses Richardson, William Marcy and John Hicks were buried in a common grave in the churchyard, a funeral that, as one chronicler put it, "brought the war to our doors...
...lists four external factors that have contributed to the explosive situation in the Philippines, where 20,000 students have been reported protesting and where the incidence of terrorist bombings and guerilla campaigns is increasing daily. "The rise in OPEC oil prices--$180 million before martial law, $12.2 billion now--worldwide inflation, international recession, and an unmanageable national debt--$2 billion in 1972, $11.2 billion now-- have all made Marcos' regime untenable," he says...
...with Aquino, hoping the dissident's release would have a moderating influence among opposition groups in the U.S. and in the Philippines. If anything, though, Marcos has miscalculated: Aquino has embarked on a full speaking tour to present himself as a reasonable alternative in the U.S., and while urban guerilla forces in the Philippines deny that Aquino is masterminding their bombing campaign, they have proclaimed him a rallying point for the Filipino people...
...search of the elusive "truth." As the authors tiresomely tell us, he faces a most disquieting question: Were all his earlier journalistic tours de force fed to him indirectly by the Russkies? Was his CIA expose planted by Soviet spies? Was his much-heralded interview with a North Vietnamese guerilla leader a set-up? Has he been an instrument of Soviet perfidy...