Word: terrains
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...until last November, though, did anyone offer reasonable answers. Then Consulting Geologist David Evans suggested that the quakes under the suddenly shaky Colorado terrain could be traced to a deep well at the nearby Rocky Mountain Arsenal. Military and civilian experts scoffed, but Evans backed up his theory with impressive evidence...
Afghanistan today is known mainly for its hounds, carpets and pistachio nuts. Its rugged, ruin-strewn terrain is still strategically important, the geopolitical crossroads between China, Russia, India and Iran. But centuries ago it was a well-traveled highway. Remarked Hsüan-tsang, a 7th century Chinese Bud dhist pilgrim, of this 800-mile bridge between the East and West: "Here are found objects of merchandise from all parts...
...once, even used to pursue the same demoiselles as his former comrade-in-arms Marshal Henri Pétain. Well, a friend asked the general in later years if the story was true. "Ah, oui," De Gaulle answered. "Pétain and I were sometimes on the same terrain. But not on the same night...
Though Air Force and Navy planes pound the enemy daily, and the 40,000-man Marine Corps contingent has fought with distinction, the war in South Viet Nam is fundamentally a battle for terrain, a foot-slogging soldier's war. To replace and augment the men in combat, the draft call-mostly for the Army-has reached 40,200 a month,* twelve times the level of August 1964. To train the ever-swelling flood of recruits, the Army is expanding half a dozen U.S. bases. To supply its fighting men, the Pentagon has stepped up its shopping for almost...
Ranger cadets will study preventative measures for ambush, defensive tactics for units under ambush, and operations in difficult terrain. They will deal essentially with the "leadership and tactics of small patrol units within larger combat battalions," Shean explained. The platoon will learn techniques of first aid, communications, water survival, land navigation, and demolitions, he said...