Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Guardsmen, of course, were not wholly to blame. Most are young, inexperienced "weekend warriors," incapable of handling what some officials are now calling "urban guerrilla warfare." Riot-control training barely exists; even military policemen in the Guard receive only one day of it. In New Jersey, where the Guardsmen's rough behavior brought a barrage of protests from Negroes, National Guard Major General James F. Cantwell conceded that the time had come for special training. "It is apparent," he wrote in a letter to the Secretary of the Army, "that there is a need for an immediate re-examination...
...submit to laborious immigration and secret-police screenings by Mexican authorities. Some, like Carmichael, flew to Prague or Moscow and then to Havana. Others worked their way to the Yucatan, and were whisked by special undercover "fishing fleets" across the 125-mile Yucatan Channel to Cuba. A Venezuelan guerrilla leader named Amerigo Martin even went so far as to travel to Colombia and sign aboard a boat bound for Spain, where he evidently planned to fly to Eastern Europe and then to Cuba; en route, however, his boat docked in Venezuela, and police-tipped off-picked him up along with...
...divisions, with their tempting opportunities for warlord graft and corruption, and create more flexible units that would specialize in pacification efforts, counterguerrilla action, and search-and-destroy missions. With U.S. help, General Vien has launched several new training programs designed to help soldiers learn everything from setting guerrilla-style ambushes to assisting villagers in building pigpens...
...black flags flapped from every lamppost, and gigantic portraits of Fidel Castro, Guerrilla Expert Che Guevara and "Carlos" Marx glowered from windows and walls of office buildings. Banners were strung here and there with the slogan: IF YOU WANT TO BE A REVOLUTIONARY, START A REVOLUTION. One of the proudest achievements of Castro's revolution-Havana's Coppelia Tee Cream Parlor-was dishing out more flavors (54), as it likes to boast, than even Howard Johnson does. In the crowded dining rooms of Havana's five "luxury" hotels, three waiters orbited eagerly around each table, smiling broadly...
...invoke Kennedy's hypothetical actions is a questionable tactic; there is also much evidence that, however reluctantly, he would have been forced by events into much the same decisions as Johnson. As to whether guerrilla war is "fundamentally" a political or military problem, the only answer is that it is both. The U.S. has never done so well on the political side as, ideally, it should have. But Hilsman seems to overestimate just how much could have been accomplished in the circumstances by political means alone, against a determined opponent who from the start used both military and political...