Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Just in Time. One of the few concrete decisions leaked from the conference was a hardly surprising agreement to intensify anti-guerrilla operations in South Viet Nam's rice bowl, a wedge-shaped section of the Mekong Delta from Saigon south, where one-third of the population is concentrated and the Viet Cong is strongest. Another decision: to revise the government's strategichamlet program. All too often in the past, reluctant peasants were herded into bleak "fortified" villages that were in fact insufficiently protected because they were too hastily built. Meanwhile the Red guerrillas, who were supposed...
...shoots faster and is less likely to jam than the U.S. Army's standard rifle, the M-14. Though its firing range is not as great, it is smaller and lighter (6.4 Ibs. v. 8.7 Ibs.) than the M-14, a fact that makes it ideal for guerrilla-type fighting and more practicable for the U.S.'s small-statured Asian allies, who find standard U.S. rifles too big to handle. Most of the 104,000 M-16s that Colt will make under the new contract will be shipped to U.S. airborne divisions and Special Forces. If the rifle...
...Guerrilla fighting is something that Founder Samuel Colt probably would have appreciated. Fascinated by gunpowder, he literally blew up his boarding school as a youth and was packed off to sea by his father. Watching the spinning spokes of the helmsman's wheel, he got the idea for the first revolver, financed production of prototypes by touring the West and selling doses of laughing gas to entertainment-starved settlers. The Mexican War made him big, and he expanded by selling to all comers, including Southern secessionists right up until the shooting at Fort Sumter. After his death...
...with independence only two years away, Minh transferred to the newly formed Vietnamese army with the grade of major. After a stint of advanced study at Paris' general staff school, he returned and, following Diem's installation in 1955, launched his guerrilla-style campaign against the Binh Xuyen bandits. He also helped Diem in his campaign to subdue two fanatic, rebellious religious sects, the Hoa Hao and Cao Dai. After a second training tour abroad-this one at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, where he picked up serviceable English-Minh...
...Guerrilla warfare may make free elections impossible of course, but if it does not, the elections should be held, even in the unlikely event that the factions favored by the U.S. do not seem assured of victory. If the candidates advocating a determined campaign against the Vietcong cannot win a free election, then they almost certainly cannot win a war which depends as much at this one does upon the support of the populace. To win a military victory would require, in effect, that America wage war on South Vietnam and whoever might come to her assistance. If this...