Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...UNDECLARED WAR (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).* A news special citing 79 instances of "overt hostilities"-meaning shots, soldiers and casualties-since World War II, with special emphasis on guerrilla skirmishes in Colombia, Guatemala and Peru, and the Panama Canal Zone riots...
...TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). The startling similarities and important differences between the war in Viet Nam and the successful twelve-year British campaign against Communist guerrillas in Malaya are reviewed in "How to Fight a Guerrilla War." Repeat...
...general with a problem, and that problem is the deployment of U.S. troops with all their mobile force and firepower in South Viet Nam. Scarcely a year ago, Giap, as he looked southward, could see victory in his grasp. Both Phase 1 (grassroots political organization) and Phase 2 (guerrilla warfare, terrorism, sabotage) in Mao's handbook of insurgency had long since been accomplished in South Viet Nam. Late in 1964, Giap apparently decided that the time had come for Phase 3-an escalation of the conflict into conventional war, attacking in large numbers for the kill. In preparation...
...times by helicopter, and 13,257 tons of supplies were airlifted to its men before the remnants of the Communist forces scuttled to safety in Cambodia. It was a stunning defeat for Giap's forces. Thanks to the helicopter, the U.S. had found a way to overpower the guerrilla fighter with his own methods: speed and surprise...
...Vietnam affects ROTC in other ways. For the first time, ROTC cadets are learning counter-insurgency, now a standard part of both the military and Marine curricula. In Mil. Sci. 2hf for instance, cadets take a unit on the basic tactics of guerrilla warfare. Their June final has included questions like, "You are an infantry captain directed to command a combat patrol consisting of three rifle squads and two mortars. Your mission is to attack and seize the hamlet in the following sketch. State your plans." The sketch which follows contains areas marked "jungle," and a body of water labelled...