Word: guerrilla
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Iraq may not have major-league baseball or daylight-saving time, but it has come to recognize an equally reliable sign of spring. Each year, as the snows melt in the lofty mountain passes along the border of northern Iraq, the sporadic, five-year-old guerrilla rebellion of Iraq's stubborn 1,500,000 Kurdish tribesmen flares up again-fueled by fresh weapons and ammunition lugged in by donkey caravan over the mountains from fellow Kurds in Iran...
...Secretary Robert McNamara points out: "The focus of the U.S. defense problem has shifted perceptibly toward the Far East." There, the U.S. not only has committed some 330,000 men in and around South Viet Nam, but also faces the threat of indefinite Red Chinese intransigence and of fresh guerrilla wars. While a few Americans, particularly on the left, are urging the U.S. to pull out of Viet Nam, others, including Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield and 15 of his colleagues, suggest that U.S. ground forces in Europe ought to be cut substantially...
...that has caused much of the trouble in the past decade. Nuclear weapons not only failed to deter mischief, but could not, in sanity, be used to quash it. Moved partly by Nikita Khrushchev's famous "wars of national liberation" speech, in which he indicated that Russia regarded guerrilla warfare as the Communist strategy of the future, the Kennedy Administration abandoned massive retaliation in favor of a strategy of flexible response. This concept dictated that the U.S. must possess the means to respond with appropriate degrees of force to any level of provocation. It remains the nation...
...among such persons as President Johnson, U.S. Senators, Premier of South Viet Nam, Viet Cong and Ho Chi Minh in realistic ratios; to be 90% certain of winning a battle, for example, the allies had to commit five times as many military points to offset the natural advantages of guerrilla troops...
...scratch out a subsistence living from the cracked earth, supplementing their diets of rice and rotten fish with such regional delicacies as eels, ant eggs, fried cicadas and fresh cucumbers served in a dark red insect sauce. Long a center of discontent, the northeast has lately erupted in infant guerrilla war, just as Peking Foreign Minister Chen Yi blatantly predicted last year...