Word: guerrilla
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like the Real Thing. The maneuvers seemed almost as confusing as actual combat. At one point, the observing party headed by Air Force Chief of Staff Curtis LeMay had trouble even finding the fighting. A convoy of 59 trucks got lost on the Carolina roads. Guerrilla operations were carried out with startling realism. Several weeks ago, the guerrillas infiltrated the Carolina countryside, secured hideouts, persuaded civilians to act as sympathizers who would provide food, medical aid and other services. When the maneuvers began, more guerrillas parachuted into their areas, were greeted by civilian doctors that had been "won over...
Adams, who seemed to be everywhere on the battlefield, made a point of eating supper one night in the field with a bearded guerrilla unit wearing tattered civilian clothes. The menu: catfish stew and fried water moccasin. "You keeping clean?" Adams asked one guerrilla. "Yes, sir," was the reply. "We wash our socks and underclothes every day. It doesn't get them clean, but it keeps the smell out." "That's important," said the general with approval. "Always keep the clothes next to your body clean. When you're moving fast, that's what slows...
...murdered; since the rebellion began, some 1,300 whites and 13,000 blacks have died violently. Portugal poured troops into the colony until it had quintupled its garrisons (to 40,000). Slowly they restored a semblance of order; now the war has settled into a sporadic series of guerrilla ambushes and sniping skirmishes...
Free of ingrained military prejudices-as well as lacking in military experience-the Whiz Kids delight in finding new and often totally unexpected solutions even to conventional military problems. While working on guerrilla warfare, one of them remembered reading books by British-born Author John Masters, whose The Road Past Mandalay described his World War II experiences with Orde Wingate's Chindits behind the Japanese lines in Burma, got Masters to write several valuable reports on guerrilla warfare. Enthoven calculated that one Chinook helicopter could do the job-at less expense in men and money-now performed...
...defense programs, originated major elements in the "no-city" strategy outlined by McNamara in Ann Arbor. Mich., last month; under it. U.S. retaliation to surprise attack would concentrate on Soviet military objectives and avoid destruction of cities. Articulate and wide-ranging in his interests-which may be NATO or guerrilla warfare-he worked at Rand on a broad study of overseas bases that turned into a full-dress comparative review of U.S. v. Soviet strategic airpower. "As soon as he touches a sensitive nerve,'' says an Air Force planner, "the military begin to yell. But he always knows...