Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Coming in Low. A truly versatile Jack-of-all-trades, McAllister until recently loaded his own smoke bombs (with which to mark guerrilla targets), owing to a shortage of hands at his base airport in Quinhon in Central Viet Nam. But it was in the cockpit of his light observation plane that he made himself a legend of skill and courage...
Clad in grey coveralls, with a .38 revolver on his hip and a knife strapped to his leg, McAllister was in the air so much of the time that he began counting "missions" by the day instead of by the flight. He was so expert at detecting guerrilla camouflage that he could spot a Viet Cong position within seconds. He flew in low-like a "goosed gnat," in the words of one of his colleagues-marked enemy positions with smoke bombs, called in hot fighter-bombers, and then got the hell out of the way. The whole business scared...
...nearby ally. But it was not that simple. Anev was actually captured in his native village near the Yugoslav border, in a region long noted for its opposition to foreign invaders-Russian or otherwise. There, 20 years ago, he and Todorov-Gorunya had led an anti-Nazi guerrilla group...
...where the settler regards the native as the "quintessence of evil" and the native wants "to sit at the settler's table, to sleep in the settler's bed, with his wife if possible." The native peoples must not only riot or strike but employ skilled guerrilla techniques. Fanon argues that hatred alone is not enough to sustain a war of liberation; only constant political work and propaganda can convince the peasant masses that freedom will be worth the ordeal; brutality must be used purposefully...
Speaking to an audience of 75 in the Kirkland House Junior common Room on "Guerrilla War and the Conspiratorial Theory of History". Tito's diarist explained that an ideology of change fostered among the intellectuals will not sustain a revolutionary movement without the backing of a mass movement. On the other hand, he said, a spontaneous uprising will not be successful without its goal founded in an ideology...