Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WORLD historians may one day record that victory over Communism was won not by the conquest of space or the big bomb but by the rapid-fire rifle, armed helicopter, the knife and the strangling wire. The U.S.. at least, is betting so heavily on that possibility that guerrilla warfare training has become the nation's fastest-expanding field of military activity...
...That Twilight Zone. To this end, the U.S. is so stressing guerrilla training for itself and its Allies that a top Army general recently warned: "If you read everything on the subject and listen to some of our military, you might easily begin to think all our armed forces will soon be going around with knives in their teeth." Such is the pace of the effort that for once the reality has outraced the rhetoric. The services have not even agreed on what to call this kind of fighting. To the Army, it is "special warfare," and its guerrilla experts...
...Bombs and the other Guts and Glory. We started the project at 8 p.m., and by 11 we had cut out and pasted to the walls of our living room 147 panels. These ranged from a buxom nurse giving a G.I. a shot of penicillin to a Communist guerrilla with his intestines exposed by mortar fire. The next day I stomped flat eleven empty cans. We stuck mostly to Campbell soup cans, but threw in a sweet potato can and a cardboard chow mein container for originality. These I nailed to the walnut paneling above the fireplace. When my wife...
...central highlands of Viet Nam last week. On the ground, 10,000 South Vietnamese infantrymen and marines spread out over a vast, inhospitable sector south of Tamky where no government troops had set foot since 1938. In one of the biggest drives against the Communist Viet Cong since the guerrilla war broke out in 1959, South Viet Nam's government hoped to flush six Red battalions and a headquarters company from its longtime stronghold in the mountains. Main object of the month-long operation was to destroy Viet Cong food caches and cut the Reds' main supply line...
...still be there." The Coaching War. Strategically and politically, of course, the war for Viet Nam has little in common with the Battle of Guadalcanal. The U.S. is not running the war, but is trying to help a sensitive young nation to win for itself. It is a guerrilla war in which, as President Diem says, "psychological aspects" may prove more important than killing the enemy-even though, in the U.S. view, his regime has done far too little, too late, to win the support of the rural populace. After prolonged pressure, the government agreed only last week to assume...