Word: interdict
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Administration has been stepping up its military pressure on the North since February, when Ho Chi Minh rejected all peace proposals in starkly uncompromising terms. The U.S. sowed mines in the mouths of North Viet Nam's rivers, lobbed shells across the DMZ, ordered Navy vessels to interdict coastal targets and local shipping in Operation Sea Dragon. Two weeks ago, President Johnson gave Navy jets the "go" signal to attack power plants within the city of Haiphong, previously a proscribed area. Last week, from attack carriers in the Gulf of Tonkin and from bases in Thailand and South Viet...
...result was not only the war's bloodiest battle and a stunning defeat for the Communists, who suffered 2,000 dead, but the beginning of a new phase in the war. Since then, despite heavy bombing of the North and a steady buildup of U.S. troops to interdict the southward flow of troops, infiltration has continued unabated, providing the chief source of new Communist manpower to keep the war going...
...Interdict & Inhibit. Rusk went on to say, "Were the insurgency in South Viet Nam truly indigenous and self-sustained, international law would not be involved. But the fact is that it receives vital external support-in organization and direction, in training, in men, in weapons and other supplies...
...assistance has been increased because the aggression from the north has been augmented. Our assistance now encompasses the bombing of North Viet Nam. The bombing is designed to interdict, as far as possible, and to inhibit, as far as necessary, continued aggression against the Republic of Viet Nam. When that aggression ceases, collective measures in defense against it will cease...
...even more burning issue between the Joint Chiefs and the Administration is over extending the war in Viet Nam. The Chiefs are unanimous in their opinion that the U.S. and its Vietnamese allies should 1) try to interdict Viet Cong supply lines in North Viet Nam and 2) "punish" the North Vietnamese by air attacks on military and industrial installations so as to let them know, in Wheeler's words, that "they have to pay a price for their activities." The Joint Chiefs realize that such action might bring the Communist Chinese into even more active participation...