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...proved to be neither short nor surgical. The federal army all too often advances only on roads, and by day, and sometimes takes its afternoons off from fighting. When the federal troops attack, their strategy is to saturate Biafran positions with wanton bursts of 76- and 90-mm. artillery fire, move forward quickly, then dig in and wait for the artillery to catch up. Such tactics, or at least the attitude behind them, are not confined to Nigeria's federal troops; they are commonplace with most African armies. Moreover, federal commanders have built up an army to match the scale...
...might not be readily committed. There is considerable incentive for "Mike force" troopers. A private gets more monthly pay than a regular Vietnamese master sergeant ($58 v. $48). There is also the promise of booty money for captured Communist weapons: an AK-47 assault rifle brings $25, a 120-mm. mortar $200, a tank...
...Marines stayed, holed up in flimsy bunkers that could not withstand a direct artillery hit, encircled by North Vietnamese who held most of the high ground, continuously dazed by rocket and 130-and 152-mm. artillery barrages that dumped up to 1,500 rounds a day into the base. North Vietnamese trenches fingered up to the camp's defensive wire. Rats infested the bunkers. Supply planes had to feel their way through rain and clouds and all-too-accurate antiaircraft fire; the hulks of downed aircraft lined the runwav...
...Irbid. In any case, the Israelis bombarded the city itself, which has a population of 100,000 people. They killed or wounded over 100 Jordanian civilians. You might be interested to know that most of the damage to the city was a result of the Israelis using Russian 130-mm. guns, which were brought up to the occupied Golan Heights especially for bombarding the city...
Early one morning last week, as the capital was stirring to life, Communist gunners cut loose a savage rocket barrage aimed at the heart of the capital. Firing from positions six miles east of downtown Saigon, they launched 26 Soviet-made 122-mm. missiles, whose only warning is a high-pitched whistle. Two missiles smashed into two houses in Gia Long Street and killed eight civilians. Another landed within 200 ft. of the Rex, originally an apartment building and now a U.S. billet. American officers there abandoned their breakfast and threw themselves under tables while Vietnamese waitresses screamed in terror...