Word: reacts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Airmobile Division will have little armor and therefore not much staying power in battle. But it should make up for that with its mobility and fast striking force. It will, said McNamara, be "capable of conducting operations in all types of terrain. It can react quickly and maneuver rapidly over large areas. It can reconnoiter, screen wide fronts, delay hostile forces, and conduct raids behind enemy lines. The division is particularly effective in locating and maintaining contact with the enemy." In other words, it seemed tailor-made for Viet...
...Saigon arsenal: imagination. Guessing that the Viet Cong had already overrun the protected jungle clearings where relief helicopters could be expected to land, Vien sent 40 choppers loaded with troops swooping suddenly onto a soccer field adjacent to the defenders' compound. Before the Viet Cong could react, the bulk of the 52nd Ranger Battalion was on the ground and fighting. By the following morning, the Communist attackers had had enough. They faded like smoke into the jungle, leaving behind 700 dead. The defenders' toll was terrible too: at least 108 dead (including 18 Americans), 46 wounded, 126 missing...
...have to fire people to make point, the rules permit it," . But he added that he felt a word the wise should be sufficient. "We think that the community will react sensibly that we've made our feelings heard," said...
...Paper Tiger. "The Cuban missile crisis," writes Brzezinski, "offered a basic lesson in international politics. The U.S. assured the Soviets that it will react if pushed too hard-that there is legitimate merit in maintaining international stability." When the U.S. hesitated to act in Viet Nam, the Soviets forgot the lesson and thought the Chinese correct in labeling the U.S. a paper tiger. "It was in this context that the Soviet leadership began to show renewed interest in North Viet...
Courses in the history of religion and the Bible, however, are inappropriate in the public schools, Ulich said. High school students, "to whom nothing is as attractive as negative rationality," would react skeptically to such courses and "be likely to interpret religion merely as human invention...