Word: regions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were not already involved as we are today in Viet Nam, I would know of no reason why we should wish to. Viet Nam is not a region of major military-industrial importance. It is difficult to believe that any decisive developments of the world situation would be determined by what happens in that territory. Even a situation in which South Viet Nam was controlled exclusively by the Viet Cong, while regrettable and no doubt morally unwarranted, would not present dangers great enough to justify our direct military intervention. There is every likelihood that a Communist regime in South Viet...
...Directory. Part of the balance is in the makeup of the ten generals themselves. The Directory is divided between Catholics and Buddhists, Northerners and Southerners, staff officers like Ky and commanders of Viet Nam's four embattled corps areas and the capital military region...
William Friday, 45, North Carolina. An efficient organizer, he has been president of the South's best university for ten years, has pipelines to resources of all of the region's leading schools. He heads an advisory committee on relations between AID and universities, and chairs the President's commission on White House Fellows. A lawyer, he has spent most of his career at Chapel Hill...
...week's operation in Binh Dinh and Quang Nai provinces, as well as previous operations such as that in the Delta's "Iron Triangle" which was a Communist stronghold since 1950. The editorial stated that "All of our successful operations have been confined to the central plains area, a region settled largely by Catholic refugees from the North and hardly a Viet Cong stronghold." But the area is settled mostly by Montagard tribesmen, not "Catholic refugees" and is Precisely where the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese massed their largest forces...
...destroy tactics can defeat the Viet Cong in any significant way. Secretary McNamara has said confidently that "we are no longer losing the war." But neither are we winning. All of our successful operations have been confined to the central plains area, 300 miles northeast of Saigon, a region settled largely by Catholic refugees from the North and hardly a Viet Cong stronghold; or in areas like Chu Lai where American seapower provides tactical support unavailable inland. Even where we have "destroyed" the enemy, guerillas have repeatedly re-infiltrated after the completion of operations. Pacification of conquered territory will require...