Word: guerrilla
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...guerrilla war, but sufficient for them to take the initiative. Once that happens, said a U.S. official, "we can begin pacification and the tide will begin to turn...
...Sanctuary. The troops under William Westmoreland did more. "If the other guy can live and fight under those conditions," said the general, "so can we." In the baking heat and moldering humidity of the Asian mainland, the Americans applied their own revised version of the guerrilla-warfare manual that Communists from Havana to Hanoi had long regarded as holy writ. With stupendous firepower and mobility undreamed of even a decade ago, U.S. strike forces swooped into guerrilla redoubts long considered impenetrable. Like clouds of giant dragonflies, helicopters hauled riflemen and heavy artillery from base to battlefield in minutes, giving them...
...nomination for TIME'S Man of the Year is the Vietnamese guerrilla, who for 25 years has fought, always against great odds, for the right to govern himself...
...announced that Thailand's two Communist organizations-the Patriotic Front and the Thai Independence Movement-had merged under the leadership of the Patriotic Front. Both outfits together number no more than 1,000 members, but it is from just such hardened cadres that full-scale Viet Cong-style guerrilla armies develop...
...raiders smashed a police checkpoint, killing three police. The enemy has good reason to try to cripple the cops. For the Vietnamese in the white uniforms do not handle only the usual policeman's lot of random robbery and mayhem. More and more, they are meeting the guerrillas face to face. "What is the guerrilla if not a criminal?" demands the canh sat commander, Colonel Pham Van Lieu. "He commits all the possible crimes-murder and rape, grand larceny and petty theft, extortion and blackmail...