Word: north
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reliance on technology, is badly suited to guerrilla warfare, as in Viet Nam. It cannot be used to keep balky allies in line, as Russia did in Hungary and Czechoslovakia, because American values and politics would not permit it. It is unsuitable for ready use against mischiefmakers, whether in North Korea or Peru, because heavy ripostes to such irritations usually entail intolerable military or political risks...
...officers saw the Viet Nam war as a chance to field-test new weapons and season a generation of career soldiers, the experience seems more an example of military?and political?misjudgment than of calculated aggressiveness. The military, which oversold Lyndon Johnson on the efficiency of air power against North Viet Nam, can be faulted; so can the State Department, which insisted that Ho Chi Minh, despite his Soviet training and his country's history of resistance to Chinese influence, was little more than Peking's puppet. But the final decisions lay with the Chief Executive. When it came...
...during World War II, and rose to captain. But with his sketchy education, further promotion was impossible. He reverted to noncom, now holds the rank of sergeant-major. Still hard and trim at 48, Kelley is in charge of re-enlistments for the Second Division Headquarters, about 20 miles north of Seoul, Korea...
Canadians and Americans have traditionally taken each other for granted. If frictions have developed, they have rarely seemed significant. In no area has North American unity seemed more certain than in matters concerning mutual security. Thus last week, on the eve of NATO's 20th anniversary, it came as a shock to most Americans when Canada's Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau announced that Ottawa will "take early steps to bring about a planned and. phased reduction" of the number of Canadian troops on duty in Europe. Though Trudeau did not say so, the new policy contemplates...
...gold, blue and white markings rather than the simple blue and white of the U.S. Air Force. The planes are those of the Viet Nam Air Force, and the results are usually similar whichever service answers the alarm. The Viet Nam air force, as well as the MIG-equipped North Vietnamese air arm, grew out of a nine-pilot unit that the French organized in 1951. After the 1954 Geneva agreements split the country, some of the pilots joined the South and the V.N.A.F. was established...