Word: pentagon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...regroup, as they have done so often in the past? Many in the Johnson Administration seemed willing to interpret the lull as a deliberate signal from Hanoi that the North Vietnamese wanted to move on to a new phase in the Paris peace negotiations. A minority, centered in the Pentagon but also including Rostow and Rusk, held out in the absence of firm and far-reaching North Vietnamese concessions. Said one U.S. diplomat: "I have always thought that one of our biggest problems would be to get our own military to admit the fact of a fadeaway...
...They have lost more than 100,000 men killed this year," said a Pentagon expert. "Do you realize that is two field armies? They send those boys down south and they never come back. And they're doing no better in the war." One U.S. observer insisted that Hanoi can rely on only six of every ten men sent south to fight; the rest defect, including an even larger number of North Vietnamese civilian administrators, or melt into the jungle. The growing rate of defections, moreover, leads to better allied intelligence-a major factor in recent months in blunting...
...women. Monsoon rains and flooding made rice so scarce that prices soared to as much as ten times the official rate. At the same time that the North's military capability has skidded into a downward curve, the South's is on the upswing. According to a Pentagon study conducted by Assistant Secretary of Defense Dr. Alain Enthoven, South Viet Nam's armed forces along with its Regional and Popular Forces have improved enough in the past two years to equal the introduction of 190,000 more U.S. fighting...
Readiness. Meanwhile, political and military developments in Europe have given the colonels considerable leverage over the U.S. The growing Soviet naval presence in the Mediterranean convinced Pentagon planners of the need for a strengthening of NATO's eastward flank. Even more important, the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia and the continuing threat to Yugoslavia were a clear indication that Greece's armed forces should be brought up to a high state of readiness. Consequently, the U.S. State Department wrestled down its objection to the junta and agreed to renewed shipments of heavy arms. The first consignment will consist...
...MOST OF the press the trauma of self-discovery that I felt at the Pentagon happened last summer in Chicago. Journalists got angry when they saw the cops beating kids (and beating other journalists). Some of them were moved to action, but nearly all must have felt the same uselessness at their inaction I did in Washington...