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...strikes appear much less unreasonable and dangerous than is implied by Secretary McNamara's "explanation;" they seem, in fact, nearly inconsequential. The United States cannot end the South's civil war by bombing North Viet Nam. It is academic to argue, as the Administration repeatedly has, that Ho Chi Minh "started" the rebellion. The rebellion now exists, and it will not disappear, even if North Viet Nam is methodically bombed into military impotence. And, though air strikes may win the Saigon government several days of peace, they can never win the regime political stability...
Vietnamese army (Viet Minh). U.S. officials reason that the pool of 90,000 South Vietnamese who went north after Viet Nam's 1954 partitioning has run dry, hence Northerners are being thrown into the fight by the Reds. But the blatant sending in of Northerners also means that Hanoi, which has tried to pretend that it was not really directing the war in the South, is, in the grim words of one U.S. official, "ready to take off the eighth veil...
They usually move in groups of 30 to 40. Led by guides from one jungle "station" to the next, the North Vietnamese start their six-month trek down the Ho Chi Minh Trail, a labyrinthine maze of many paths, which U.S. advisers prefer to call "a line of drift...
Before long, "suppressive fire" became something else. Not waiting to be shot at, U.S. jets began blasting Red targets-mainly along Route 7, the principal convoy link from Communist North Viet Nam to the Pathet Lao, and along the Ho Chi Minh trail, over which North Viet Nam feeds men and material into South Viet Nam (see map). Though aided by Laotian-flown propeller-driven T-28s, bases in South Viet Nam and elsewhere supplied U.S.-manned F-105 Thunderchiefs-one of the hottest, meanest items in the U.S. Air Force inventory, capable of lifting twenty-six 565-lb. bombs...
...objective of the strike near Ban Ban was confined solely to Laos. The bridge over the Nam Mat was instrumental in maintaining the flow of Red supplies to the Pathet Lao-the stretch of Route 7 that was hit is too distant to form part of the Ho Chi Minh trail to the south. But the demonstration of U.S. power would undoubtedly have its positive psychological effect in South Viet Nam, where there is concern that the U.S. might pull...