Word: haiphong
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...seems very reasonable to conclude that if we had entered the Viet "Jam war to win [Sept. 8], bombing Haiphong, the dams, bridges, plants and power houses right at the start, instead of waiting till they had assembled the most powerful combination of antiaircraft weapons yet seen, our losses of men and material would have been reduced and the war shortened. A war asininely fought is half lost. Our substitute for a quick victory has pleased no one except the Viet Cong...
...pullout. He is also reluctant to risk any major intensification of the war, not only because it would entail vast additional expenditures and mobilization of the reserves, but because it might bring in Peking or Moscow. The President observed last week that he has not permitted bombing of Haiphong Harbor because when he thinks of the Soviet ships backed up there, he thinks of the S.S. Lusitania and the U.S.S. Maine...
...attacks in the North could not significantly reduce U.S. casualties in South Viet Nam. McNamara also strongly implied that nearly all of 51 targets recommended by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, but so far not approved by the President, were barely worth attacking, including the major port of Haiphong...
What about interdicting Russian and Chinese supplies to Hanoi by closing North Viet Nam's ports, notably Haiphong? That, too, argued McNamara, would not work. North Viet Nam imports some 5,800 tons a day, some 4,700 tons of it through Haiphong's port. Military equipment makes up only 550 tons daily in imports, and "little if any" of it comes in by sea. Haiphong is a "convenience rather than a necessity" for imports, and even if all 400 miles of North Vietnamese coast could be interdicted, "North Viet Nam would still be able to import over...
...General U Thant, who in effect demanded that the U.S. get out of Viet Nam. Quakers happily reported that they have funneled $25,000 to Canadians who deliver medical supplies to North Viet Nam. One group was hoping to sponsor another sally of the Quaker-owned ketch Phoenix into Haiphong harbor with medicines...