Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brief address recently to a group of fellow students at the Army's Command and General Staff College, I proposed the establishment of a national guerrilla force under U.S. Army auspices. I thought that I had come up with something original. It is most gratifying to learn that our citizenry still has the foresight to see a grim possibility and then to do something about...
...Army has had few tougher combat generals than James Alward Van Fleet, 69, who won three Distinguished Service Crosses, three Silver Stars and three Bronze Stars during a distinguished career that included leading an Army corps in Europe, defeating Communist guerrillas in Greece, and commanding the Eighth Army in Korea. But solid as was Van Fleet's reputation for bravery, it was occasionally matched by his reputation for shooting from the lip. Last week, on the eve of his recall by the Kennedy Administration as an Army consultant on guerrilla warfare, Van Fleet arose before a gathering of conservation...
...what steps the U.S. should take to shore up President Diem's government. Kennedy still opposes sending U.S. combat troops, but may agree to the dispatch of 1) U.S. Army engineers to repair the flood damage, 2) logistics experts to improve the inefficient supply system, 3) more anti-guerrilla trainers, and 4) helicopters to give government troops greater mobility in the nightmare terrain...
...Twentieth Century (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). First of two programs on guerrilla warfare, as taught by the U.S. Army at Fort Bragg, N.C., and on Okinawa...
...Administration-whether or not the U.S. should send in troops-but he plans to take it up in his final report. As of now, the Administration is opposed to sending G.I.s to fight in the Vietnamese jungle (as is the Vietnamese government), nor does the U.S. have enough trained guerrilla fighters to do the job. In any case, reported Taylor, South Viet Nam needs six months of hard work just to straighten out the country before the U.S. should even seriously consider the question of sending in its own troops in force...