Word: napalm
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...Kennedy authorized the use of U.S. helicopters in Vietnam, which began to use their superior mobility, devastating firepower and napalm to help the flagging ARVN. Enormous American armored personnel carriers called M-113s, impenetrable to Vietcong weapons and armed with terrifyingly powerful machine guns, began hauling ARVN troops around. There were no American ground troops, and Kennedy steadfastly refused to commit any, but Americans were piloting helicopters, fighter bombers and APCs, and serving in that most ambiguous of roles, as military advisors. Beyond hardware, the Kennedy Administration never came to grips with the true politics...
...failure. They lacked a joint command-and-communications system and were dependent largely on weapons and ammunition abandoned by Iraqi soldiers as they fled the allies. The holy sites of Karbala and Najaf, so meticulously avoided by coalition bombing raids, were reportedly ravaged. In some cases targeted with napalm and phosphorus, thousands of civilians streamed toward the southern sector of the country occupied by U.S. troops. Ordered not to intervene, American soldiers could offer little more than food, water and medical assistance...
...predicts a U.S. official, "it's going to get really ugly" for the Kurdish fighters who have taken much of northeastern Iraq. "Saddam's probably going to use helicopter gunships, fixed-wing bombers, chemical weapons, napalm -- the works." U.S. forces earlier had forbidden the Iraqi military to fly warplanes and had actually shot down two. Washington had further hinted that it might attack helicopters flying against the rebels and retaliate, presumably by bombing, if Saddam used chemical weapons or napalm against his own people. But by the end of last week those warnings were exposed as a bluff that...
...rebels by hanging them from utility poles and the gun barrels of tanks. Insurgents in the north claimed the army had taken 5,000 Kurdish women and children hostage and was threatening to kill them. Tehran maintained that 30 Iraqis who had fled to Iran were the victims of napalm attacks by Saddam's troops...
Much had been written about the inferno the Iraqis would create by filling trenches with burning oil. But in the Marines' sector, U.S. planes had burned off the oil prematurely by dropping napalm. The Saudis did encounter trenches filled with blazing petroleum and in some cases with water, but crossed them by the simple expedient of having bulldozers and tanks fitted with earth- , moving blades collapse dirt into the trenches until they were filled. It took only hours for the allied troops to burst through the supposedly impregnable Iraqi defenses and begin a war of maneuvers, sweeping right past some...