Word: guerrilla
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...principal enemy still rests on the ability to hit back massively. Rather, it acknowledged that the missile standoff makes it less and less realistic to threaten "massive retaliation at places of our choosing" in response to lesser Communist attacks that could be better met by conventional forces or even guerrilla warfare (see box). The U.S.'s ability to wage all-out nuclear war and yet do little against border incursions has come to hamper the diplomat as well as the general. Last week Secretary of State Dean Rusk was revealed as the author of a memo to Defense Secretary...
...stealthy marauders are part of a select band of 1,800 specialists who make up the U.S. Army's Special Forces, a growing nucleus in U.S. military operations. Their job is to drop far behind enemy lines to rally partisan bands and teach them the prickly science of guerrilla warfare. Though the group was organized in 1952, its training and operations (two overseas units: one in Okinawa, one in West Germany) have been largely soft-pedaled. They blossomed from the shadows last week after President Kennedy-who has been reading books on guerrilla warfare by Mao and Castro...
Exploiting the Advantage. After World War II the U.S. began to realize that it had been left far behind in the art of guerrilla warfare, and that its then emerging cold war antagonists, Communist Russia and China, were experts. The Army set up the U.S. Army Special Warfare Center in a collection of old buildings at Fort Bragg, N.C. Its first weapons were volumes on guerrilla tactics by such unsurpassed veterans as Red China's Mao Tse-tung and T. E. Lawrence (of Arabia), who used guerrilla warfare against the Turks in World War I. Chief lesson: a band...
...midst of all this, the President of the U.S. added a little grace note of his own to the continuing blare of the cold war. He ordered a step-up in the U.S.'s potential for fighting guerrilla wars...
...Castro himself once did, the Escambray rebels generally rely on standard guerrilla tactics: present no solid front, hit where unexpected, and vanish. In response, Castro has resorted to tactics very like those Batista used against him. Castro gradually pulled his regular troops out of the Escambray because they can't be relied on to fight old comrades-in-arms. In place of the regulars, Castro sent in militiamen, who cautiously refrained from going into the brush, and at night retired from the hills for safety...