Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first has to do with the mentality of a military establishment. It is a truism that soldiers exist to fight--and win--wars. Major "conventional" conflicts are unlikely, if only because they would quickly become nuclear once any party thought it was losing, the U.S. is inept at combating guerrilla units, and major nuclear was is, at the moment, strategically unacceptable. There just don't seem to be any kinds of wars the U.S. can win anymore. The obvious question becomes: What do we need soldiers for? or, at least, what do we need so many soldiers and weapons...
...Christian Democrats, who have ruled West Germany either alone or in coalition since its founding in 1949, still bitterly oppose recognition of East Germany. "The Free Democrats," charged C.D.U. Deputy Ernest Miiller-Hermann, "are a band of guerrilla fighters who do the bidding of the other side behind the backs of the government." Warning against a sellout to the Communists, Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger derisively tagged the Free Democrats as the "Anerkennungspartei"-party of recognition. The Christian Democrats argue that recognition would imperil the security of isolated West Berlin by undermining the allied guarantees for the city, legalize the Communist hold...
...phenomenon. More than 6,700,000 students attend the nation's 2,500 colleges and universities. Fewer than 2% of those millions are destructive radicals, and only a handful of campuses have erupted so far. Still, that 2% amounts to perhaps 100,000 activists, quite enough for a sizable guerrilla war. Over the past year, in fact, disorders have leaped like firebrands from campus to campus?Berkeley, Brandeis, Chicago, Columbia and Howard, to name a few. At Duke and Wisconsin, the turmoil required the National Guard. Black militants and striking teachers closed San Francisco State College for five months...
...Guerrilla Theatre of SDS (written up in yesterday's paper) puts together a long-rehearsed show for a low intensity medium. And now the Strike Artists' Co-operative has prepared a photo exhibit of last week's more visual events. As of this writing, it was not yet finished. But what I saw made up a much more complete representation of what happened than your average campus revolt usually gets historywise. A good show...
Nonetheless, it is becoming increasingly clear that U.S. power has distinct limits, which must be better recognized than in the past. That power, often with absurd reliance on technology, is badly suited to guerrilla warfare, as in Viet Nam. It cannot be used to keep balky allies in line, as Russia did in Hungary and Czechoslovakia, because American values and politics would not permit it. It is unsuitable for ready use against mischiefmakers, whether in North Korea or Peru, because heavy ripostes to such irritations usually entail intolerable military or political risks...