Word: guerrilla
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cong key Cabinet posts "would be likely to follow the East European pattern of the simple takeover." He predicted that even with the V.C.'s relatively small popular following?he placed it at 15% to 25%?such a takeover would be almost inevitable. In many rural areas, the guerrilla is treated with great deference?or fear?and many peasants refer to him respectfully as ong bac ("Mr. Uncle...
...troop strength is concerned, we had to use fire-brigade tactics until late 1966, when we were strong enough to begin to apply heavy pressure on the enemy. Our capability in this regard has improved ever since. With respect to the U.S. lack of experience in guerrilla warfare, I believe our military men have performed magnificently. They quickly learned the tactics and techniques of jungle and rice-paddy fighting, and stateside training was rapidly adapted to fit the situation. Today I consider our soldiers and Marines considerably more proficient in the type of combat that occurs in Viet Nam than...
Last October 21, the country's politically alienated youth moved from dissent to resistance. At Howard and Columbia Universities, the politically alienated students moved from resistance to insurgency. Academic guerrilla warfare was initiated by blacks at Howard, and copied successfully by blacks at Boston University and without the help of black students, whose presence in the first occupied building prevented it from being busted the first day, the Columbia demonstration would not have succeeded. But in spite of this, either because white power controls the media or just because it was the culmination of a long string of student rebellions...
...past few months, North Korea has speeded up the recruitment and training of its 1,200,000-man "People's Militia," massed most of its 340,000-man army in the southern part of the country, and organized a special 20,000-man commando force for sabotage and guerrilla warfare missions over the border. It has launched 321 raids in the past year, a 600% increase over the year before. One such mission was designed to assassinate Park, but it failed (TIME, Feb. 2); not long after, the U.S.S. Pueblo was hijacked. The South does not expect a full...
...guilt-ridden and impassioned that their feeling about the burning cities is 'Let them burn.' " Expression of anger is understandable, but the "prolonged assault" against the city of Washington could "no longer be explained as a catharsis but only as the beginnings of an adventurist effort at guerrilla...