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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Commanders in the field have other complaints. They say that the U.S. should have moved much sooner to strengthen the South Vietnamese forces, which are now belatedly expected to take over the fighting. Field officers would have liked greater freedom to clean the Viet Cong out of populated villages without...
An even more basic argument against any stab-in-the-back theory is that the military only belatedly made the case for an all-out effort. Especially in the conflict's early years, the professionals of war were thinking in the old way of victory on the battlefield, and...
Fortunately, American officers do not have a tradition of taking their grievances to the political barricades. Yet the belief that the U.S. military was betrayed or let down by civilian leaders, in or out of Government, is comparable to the idea, on the other side, that the U.S. was led...
With variations, the drama was played in college dormitories and homes throughout the U.S. last week as, one by one, members of the Selective Service System's Youth Advisory Committee walked to the giant fishbowl and drew out small plastic capsules containing 366 dates. That drawing was followed by...
Who's Left. At some schools, students whose birth dates fell in the last third to be drawn thought about dropping out of school. "One reason I'm at Stanford is to keep out of the draft," said Thulin. "Now I can take some time off and not...