Word: guerrilla
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chop. Laos lies, by historical accident, in the shape of a lean lamb chop among six quarreling neighbors. To the Communist countries beyond the mists and granite-blue mountains to the north, Laos in anarchy provides the vital corridor through which to fuel an incessant guerrilla warfare against South Viet...
...Guerrilla fighters at the key European operations center at Bad Tölz, Germany, sport a variety of languages ranging from Russian through most of the tongues and dialects of the satellite countries. During the training course, the officers and enlisted men parachute into simulated target countries. If, for example, the country is Hungary, they must know how to find a street in Budapest, be able to talk knowingly about the principal Hungarian poets, and know the proper words for romance. The Pacific center at Okinawa consists of a core of 350 men, well versed in jungle warfare, who operate...
...Anti-Guerrillas. Once dropped behind enemy lines, the task forces seek out partisan leaders and willing followers and set up clandestine schools. The guerrillas can remove an appendix, fire a foreign-made or obsolete gun, blow up a bridge, handle a bow and arrow, sweet-talk some bread out of a native in his own language, fashion explosives out of chemical fertilizer, cut an enemy's throat (Peking radio calls the operators "Killer Commandos"), live off the land. The all-important aim is to elicit support from the local people by promises, threats, bribes, or by any other means...
Tactically, the Kennedy-ordered buildup of guerrilla training will add a new arm to the U.S.'s limited-war capability, and potential strength to small nations threatened with Communist infiltration. The project opens up the hazard that enthusiastic anti-Communist guerrillas may take off on a limited war of their own without an American by-your-leave. But this hazard is small compared with the value of training Communist-threatened allies in countering the Communists' favorite infiltration tactic. One new project in the works with an eye cocked toward Castro's Cuba: a branch school for counterguerrilla...
...have men and weapons now-we are strong," bragged the Red prince, who has fought a guerrilla war for the past six years. "This is what I have come to see," replied Souvanna. At night they dined under a bower of silk parachutes, along with Captain Kong Le, the moody leftist who set off the civil war last August by mutinying with his battalion of paratroopers. Souvanna hailed the "fusion" of Kong Le's soldiers and the Pathet Lao. But in private, the Communists admitted that they were as puzzled as has been many a Western diplomat by Souvanna...