Word: soldierly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this can be done only by infantry troops with riflles going out and winning an area and then controlling it and keeping it. And he said that the enormous gains of the firepower were lost in this kind of combat. He pointed out that the rifle of the N.L.F. soldier was just as effective as the rifle of the American. Even more, he pointed out that the N.L.F. soldier generally knew the terrain he was fighting in; it was friendly to him, whereas it was foreign to the American soldier...
...question is even more relevant now, since more than 5,500 suspected Communists were captured during the Tet offensive. In previous modern wars, the rare soldier caught out of uniform could expect to be shot as a spy; the Geneva Convention of 1949 in effect denies prisoner-of-war status to spies. It allows soldiers captured out of uniform to qualify for P.W. privileges if they 1) carried arms "openly" or 2) fought "in accordance with the laws and customs of war." But in Viet Nam, what is a uniform? The Viet Cong dress in the black pajamas...
...general, Negroes viewed the war as simply an extension of domestic racial prejudice to an international level. Each time these Negro students heard reports of large numbers of Viet Cong killed, they identified not with the American soldier but with the "enemy...
Gradually, the battling turned the once beautiful city into a nightmare. Hué's streets were littered with dead. A black-shirted Communist soldier sprawled dead in the middle of a road, still holding a hand grenade. A woman knelt in death by a wall in the corner of her garden. A child lay on the stairs, crushed by a fallen roof. Many of the bodies had turned black and begun to decompose, and rats gnawed at the exposed flesh...
...fact that letters have their own personalities. As David Kahn writes: "To the casual observer, they may look as alike as troops lined up for inspection, but just as the sergeant knows his men as 'the gold-brick,' 'the kid,' 'the reliable soldier,' so the cryptanalyst knows the letters of the alphabet...