Word: tactics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have welcomed extremist groups to your coalition, some of whom espouse violence as a tactic. Will there be any violence in tomorrow's demonstration...
...that the President feels that protests like Saturday's foreshadow the rise of a strong anti-Johnson political force. To distort the movement's character is no way of dealing with it. Instead, this tactic only serves to spotlight more garishly than ever the intellectual and diplomatic bankruptcy of America's present policy in Vietnam...
Possible & Potent. Typical of the results of the new tactic was an earlier Junction City battle in Tay Ninh. A U.S. deep patrol of platoon size flushed out what appeared to be two enemy companies on a heavily jungled hillside. Within two minutes of the first exchange of shots, more than 30 U.S. artillery pieces, all moved up the previous day to cover the patrol, were pounding the enemy. But the two Viet Cong companies proved to be two battalions instead, and the U.S. platoon was hard pressed when, 15 minutes after the artillery opened up, the first fighter-bombers...
Deep patrolling is, of course, a dangerous tactic, and its application has accounted for a good part of the surge in Allied as well as Viet Cong casualties. Some squads have been wiped out on deep patrol and some platoons so badly mauled that they could no longer operate as units. The Viet Cong and North Vietnamese have themselves countered with fresh tactics, including deep patrols of their own. But the enemy's main thrust has been at forward U.S. artillery batteries that make American deep patrols both possible and potent. In recent weeks the Communists have launched frantic...
...Confrontation politics" is the essence of the new student movement--confrontation with the power structure on main street, or the campus, in Washington. This is the particular form that political action has taken. Civil Rights tactics are the great source of inspiration. The tactic is to pick an issue and confront the power structure with it as dramatically as possible. There are a series of acts and events, with a certain style to them and moving in the same general direction...