Word: guerrilla
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With heavy reinforcements from North Viet Nam, the Communist Viet Cong has doubled its strength (to some 20,000) and effectiveness over the past six months, is switching its strategy from isolated guerrilla raids to full-scale warfare aimed at "liberating" the country, region by region. A major disadvantage faced by Diem's 160,000-man army is that Viet Cong rebels, who mostly come from South Viet Nam and speak the local dialect, have won widespread support among the villagers...
...recalled from retirement General James A. Van Fleet, 69, hero of the free world's 1948-50 victory over Communism in Greece and commander of the United Nations Korean forces from 1951 to 1953. Van Fleet's new assignment: to help the U.S. Army train for anti-guerrilla warfare...
Sharpened Knives. Around the world, other Army units are on the picket line. G.I.s muffled in cold-weather gear patrol the white wastes of the Arctic. In the jungles of South Viet Nam, guerrilla-fighting experts of the Army's newly formed Special Forces teach villagers how to fire the Mi, then lead them on forays against the Communist raiders that are filtering across the border in increasing numbers. In Hawaii, the 25th Infantry Division is trained in the stealthy art of jungle warfare. During maneuvers, men of the 25th drill on techniques of getting along with native tribes...
...Limburger cheese, kept a contraband radio in a hollowed-out corner of his mattress, and plinked away at the hindquarters of upperclassmen with an air rifle. Recalls Abrams: "The only thing in which I was outstanding was discipline. I was at the bottom of the class." What with his guerrilla warfare against the Point, Abrams stood a mediocre 185th in his class of 276 upon graduation in 1936. That year Abrams married an athletic, auburn-haired Vassar graduate named Julia Harvey, who regularly drove him to distraction by trouncing him in tennis, and began his Army career on horseback...
...Life. Hughes wants the U.S. unilaterally to renounce the use of atomic weapons, but says he is not simply for surrender, nor is he a pacifist. He thinks the enemy "should be met with real force," but only "force on a human scale." By this he means conventional weapons, guerrilla warfare, militia organizations, underground activity. When it is pointed out to him that about 40 million people were killed "conventionally" in World War II, Hughes points to this fact: the casualties in World War II occurred "over a six-year period in a very widely extended territory, most of them...