Word: toan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...early last week there were at least 130,000 Communist troops surrounding Saigon, squared off against just 60,000 ARVN troops. And while South Vietnamese forces were steadily depleted through desertions and encounters with the enemy, the North Vietnamese forces kept growing. General Nguyen Van Toan, commander of the military region around the capital, privately conceded that the battle had been lost; so did most of ARVN's top leadership. "Their morale and their leadership are just flowing away," said a senior military observer who only a week ago was still hopeful that Saigon could yet pull off "a small...
...strange sort of camaraderie prevails at Ta Lung. "In the mornings," says Colonel Toan, "the enemy likes to taunt us. 'Time to get up!' the Communist political officer shouts...
Colonel Vo Toan, the district commander, described what he calls the "spider-web" tactics employed at Ta Lung: "We make sure the enemy doesn't venture too far. He is the butterfly and we are the spider. If he enters our web, we close in behind...