Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grandiose ideas about the capabilities of the corps. Says he: "We can't do six or seven or eight divisions' worth of fighting, but we sure as hell can do three divisions' worth." After a JCS discussion on the use of chemicals to defoliate guerrilla hiding spots, Shoup dismissed the whole thing with the comment: "I've been using defoliants at my farm in West Virginia for years, and they don't work worth a damn...
...were obeyed swiftly and efficiently. Boston-born, Harkins has a reputation for tact and diplomacy as well as drive and discipline, all of which he will need in the job ahead. The U.S. is committed to a three-stage "pacification" program in Viet Nam that calls for 1) anti-guerrilla training and military re-equipment of the Vietnamese army, 2) swift-moving offensive operations against the hard-to-find Viet Cong guerrillas, and 3) reconstruction of the nation's staggering peasant economy...
Cuba's old-line Reds have always held a patronizing view of Castro. When he first began his guerrilla fight, the Communists dismissed him as inconsequential; Rodríguez himself laughed off Castro as a "petty putschist." But when it seemed that Castro might win. Rodríguez was sent into the hills to join the rebels...
...York Times). The pictures were played for dramatic effect: a blast-off shot of Saturn, the U.S.'s largest rocket, soared majestically the length of the page; a glowering portrait of Brigadier General William B. Rosson, the U.S. Army's guerrilla warfare expert, was brutally cropped to eliminate part of the general's brow, all of his hair and his left ear. Even the paper on which the newcomer was printed seemed whiter by several degrees than ordinary oyster-grey newsprint-as indeed it was. Thus last week, after a five-month gestation, was born the National...
...given Diem $2 billion in economic and military aid. Since last fall, the buildup has included 56 large helicopters. The U.S. now has 3,600 men in South Viet Nam, piloting planes, tending war dogs used for combat patrols, training Diem's 170,000-man army in anti-guerrilla tactics. Ships of the U.S. Seventh Fleet patrol the South China Sea to prevent Red infiltration by junk and sampan. U.S. special forces are on the way to beef up Diem's military intelligence, communications and logistics...