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Highly Mobile. Why the change of heart about Khe Sanh? The U.S. command in Saigon explained that the tactical situation in northernmost I Corps had been altered dramatically. Whereas the North Vietnamese had the equivalent of only six divisions below the Demilitarized Zone last January, they now had eight. To counter that increased threat, U.S. commanders reasoned, the 271,000 allied forces in the area would have to be highly mobile. A fixed and exposed base like Khe Sanh would no longer make sense. That argument was sensible enough, but it came a little late. Many critics felt from...
...become Army Chief of Staff, offered a characteristically optimistic assessment of the war during a visit to the L.B.J. Ranch. The enemy "seems to be approaching a point of desecration," he told the President, and his forces "are deteriorating in strength and quality." Though hard fighting looms in northernmost I Corps, the Central Highlands and around Saigon, added Westy, "time is on our side." That, clearly, is what Hanoi believes-about its side...
...comment was not entirely facetious. Hanoi doubled the rate of infiltration this year to at least 12,000 men a month, now has the equivalent of a dozen full divisions, or 80,000 men, in the South. If anything, fighting has intensified since talking began, particularly in northernmost I Corps. During the first week of the Paris negotiations, the U.S. suffered 549 battle deaths, the second highest toll...
...Billion Program. Beyond the bombing issue, Hanoi is expected to propose that the two northernmost provinces of South Viet Nam, which include the cities of Hué and Quang Tri, be turned into a buffer zone. That would be a tough proposal for the allies to accept, since it would effectively give Hanoi part of what it sought-and failed to get-in 1954: partition of the country near the 16th parallel instead of the 17th. The U.S. is likely to call for a return to the conditions set forth, and frequently violated, at Geneva in 1954, with emphasis...
...cities and attempted ground attacks in some cases, but their assault, far from being a second round on the scale of Tet, amounted to little more than coordinated harassment. Elsewhere, U.S. and South Vietnamese forces scored sizeable victories in heavy fighting around Saigon, in the Delta and, particularly, in northernmost I Corps, where the bloodiest battles of the week erupted...