Word: strengthing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is no indication, however, that Westmoreland's reports to the White House have been less exuberant than his public pronouncements. Presumably, he was misled by his intelligence unit. Nearly all military experts agree Westmoreland has underestimated Communist strength-or overestimated the effectiveness of Viet Nam's regular army and paramilitary units. His own command admits the strength of the enemy Tet offensive came as a shock...
...falling into a trap set by North Viet Nam Defense Minister Vo Nguyen Giap, hero of Dienbienphu and strategist of the current offensive. Indeed, there are some chilling parallels between Giap's winter-spring offensive in 1954 and the current Red strategy. While the Communists built up their strength at Dienbienphu to 40,000 men-the estimated force now around Khe Sanh-they simultaneously launched assaults against the French throughout Indo-China. The Tet offensive was a similar widespread assault by the Communists which may have been aimed, at least in part, at pinning down U.S. troops in cities...
Westmoreland and the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who unanimously approved his strategy, are counting on U.S. airpower, firepower and troop strength to make the difference. Unlike the French, who had few warplanes and were able to mount only 10,400 air missions to Dienbienphu in five months, the U.S. could equal that number in a few days with the 5,900 planes and helicopters it has in Viet...
...very core of Galbraith's plan?would not embolden and stiffen them rather than give them greater reason to come to the conference table. Secure in the countryside and immune from interdiction by air, they could husband their forces and then assault the allied-held cities with far greater strength than they showed in the past two weeks. Nor is it true that the Viet Cong alone guard the grail of Vietnamese nationalism. They are simply better organized than the hopelessly fragmented moderates, who also qualify as genuine nationalists; and the V.C. are far more adept...
There is much strength in the arguments of Richard Gill against the resolution adopted by the Student-Faculty Advisory Council last Tuesday, which recommends the postponement of Dow Chemical's imminent visit. However, the Council had a definite, simple and limited objective: to avoid a new confrontation not only between the students and the company but also between the students and the University, so as to give to the Council's members a chance to work dispassionately toward the adoption of a common policy on recruiting (a subject on which there are at present very strongly opposed views, based...