Word: moved
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...military power. Most top military officers refrain from public alibis, criticism and rebukes. But many privately agree with Westmoreland's complaint, and there are signs that a stab-in-the-back, or Versailles, complex is developing. Some officers contend that they were not permitted to move quickly, massively and without restrictions-either on bombing targets or in hitting enemy sanctuaries along Viet Nam's borders-once the decision was made in 1965 to commit U.S. combat troops. This complaint is aimed mainly at President Johnson and Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, who, some officers argue, wanted...
...history of the incredible tenacity, patience and xenophobic passion of Vietnamese nationalists. It also underrates their guerrilla fighting skills. A U.S. invasion of North Viet Nam to topple the Hanoi government must at times have had an obvious appeal to the military. But it is almost certain that this move would have provoked full-scale intervention by China, perhaps with Russian support. Such intervention might not have happened, many military men argue, if the U.S. had confined itself to a far more weighty air offensive. But no one could be sure of this, and the Administration at the time judged...
...shrouded in professional embarrassment." He claims that the Communist war effort in the South requires a volume of supplies so small compared with the North's capacity to deliver that it cannot be effectively shut off. Sealing off Haiphong, he also contends, would not have been a decisive move, since only a small portion of vital war supplies arrives through that port...
...land and canal access to West Berlin. He also urged the Soviets to prove that they genuinely want to ease tensions by agreeing to discuss NATO's year-old suggestion for mutual troop reductions in Europe (see chart). The Soviets, however, have shown no interest in such a move. The Red Army forces in Eastern Europe accomplish two major objectives of Soviet foreign policy: they provide perimeter defense of the motherland, and they help to keep the Warsaw Pact countries in line...
...move as a unified body." Lee said. "The group told me to cancel the meeting...