Word: minh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With Care. Minh claims that the idea behind all the pre-invasion publicity was "to keep the enemy guessing and on the defensive." Only cynics, of course, would suggest that it might also have been designed to give the enemy plenty of time to get away in case he wanted to avoid anything so unseemly as a battle...
Actually, as the new dry season begins, both sides have reason to handle themselves with care. Last summer Minh's troops took a mauling at the hands of the North Vietnamese at Snuol: they left behind ten tanks, 50 trucks and 14 armored personnel carriers. But the Communists have even more reason to be battle shy. In September and October, Minh's troops in Tay Ninh badly battered units of the 5th North Vietnamese Division, which had slipped across the border from Cambodia to try to disrupt the South Vietnamese presidential election...
...massive ARVN move into Cambodia was doubtless prompted by a sudden increase in the flow of enemy supplies down the Ho Chi Minh Trail, where the seasonal surge in Communist truck traffic has come much earlier than usual. By hitting the Communist staging areas in Cambodia in the coming weeks. ARVN forces hope to spoil enemy plans to regroup and resupply for an offensive in South Viet Nam early next year...
Hoarding Food. Another objective of Minh's noisy operation is to counter a Communist campaign against Cambodia's capital. For a month, enemy rockets have repeatedly slammed into Phnom-Penh and nearby Pochentong airport. One theory is that the Communists are trying to force the Cambodians to pull back for the defense of the capital the troops that are harassing them in northern and eastern Cambodia. Phnom-Penh's residents are so worried that a Communist invasion is imminent that they have begun to hoard food. Obviously, Minh is not the only one who knows...
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