Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Speaking so softly that a technician had to turn up the volume on his microphone, the general began with a precise, lucid defense of U.S. purposes and policies. The objective, he said, is not "the occupation of all South Viet Nam or the hunting down of the last armed guerrilla" but rather the nation's independence and freedom from attack. An ancillary aim is to discourage future Communist attempts to swallow "weak nations which are vulnerable targets for subversive aggression-to use the proper term for the 'war of liberation.' " The importance of the conflict...
...pointed out, these conditions have been reversed, and the prospects are uniformly unfavorable for China. "We are," he said, "a far better, greater military power. We have been preparing for this kind of guerrilla-war challenge ever since 1961. We have a vast stock pile of nuclear weapons, the ultimate deterrent of any great expansion." In similar vein, when Fulbright expressed apprehension that "the Chinese may feel very nervous about a war," Taylor retorted: "They should. If they ever got in a war with us, it would be disastrous for them...
Allenby, in the opinion of many military experts, was the first commander of the 20th century to meet and solve the problems of combined operations on a large scale. Infantry, cavalry, artillery, armor, sea power, air power, guerrilla forces, intelligence units, political possibilities-all the main instruments of modern war were available to other regional commanders of World War I, but Allenby alone, according to the author, had the administrative imagination to employ them in symphony. To orchestrate his strategy, he assembled a staff of geniuses-men like T. E. Lawrence, Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen, Lieut. Colonel Archibald Wavell. Allenby offered...
...could be depended upon to bring to Indian problems his own mixture of sympathy and irony. Kennedy was delighted by Galbraith's wit, effrontery and unabashed pursuit of the unconventional wisdom, and they were now exceptionally good friends. Nor did the President appear to mind Ken's guerrilla warfare against the ikons and taboos of the Department of State. From time to time, the President took pleasure in announcing that Galbraith was the best ambassador...
...TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). An inquiry into "How to Fight a Guerrilla War," based on the British experiences in Malaya between 1948 and 1960. Hopeful comparisons are drawn with Viet...