Word: tactically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...near China, Johnson was more meticulous than ever. He did not want the planes to come in on their bombing runs headed toward Chinese territory. So close were the targets that in a matter of seconds the supersonic jets could have crossed into China. The President finally accepted the tactic of having the planes come in parallel to the border-but only after he was convinced that they would thereby run the least risk from antiaircraft fire. The main concern, however, was with the broader implications. "A bomb near the Chinese border," says the President, "had better have civil authority...
Much of the news was bad: U.S. mobility and firepower did indeed pose difficult problems. But la Drang also demonstrated that Communist soldiers would stand and fight against the Americans; Hanoi had had considerable fears that they might not. Eventually, the jungle colloquium worked out an important new tactic: the use of bunkers manned by a small force to screen main-force units and inflict casualties on U.S. infantrymen while the main-force fighters escaped. The Communists have been using that tactic with considerable success ever since. Last month, for example, a company of the U.S. 173rd Airborne ran into...
Everyone will make his calculation differently--will see different costs and benefits--but it is essential that the effort be made before the riots become a commonplace practice. To my mind, it is clear that riots are a defeatist tactic because they will inevitably be squashed. It would be better to recognize at this early stage that the Negro can not win a military victory in the United States than to discover this reality years from now after much senseless bloodshed...
...invoke Kennedy's hypothetical actions is a questionable tactic; there is also much evidence that, however reluctantly, he would have been forced by events into much the same decisions as Johnson. As to whether guerrilla war is "fundamentally" a political or military problem, the only answer is that it is both. The U.S. has never done so well on the political side as, ideally, it should have. But Hilsman seems to overestimate just how much could have been accomplished in the circumstances by political means alone, against a determined opponent who from the start used both military and political...
...turned abruptly to the conservative camp; and until 1961 when Leonard Nadasdy won on a "no facitionalism" ticket, White's conservative candidates swept into the YR national chairmanship just as easily as had his earlier liberal candidates. "The Syndicate has never had a political philosophy," says Groshen. "Its tactic is to embrace the popular philosophy of the moment. The conservative Young Republicans chose to ignore this truism; he saw something that seemed headed in the same direction he was traveling; that was all that was important...