Word: troop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Referring to the 200,000-man troop build up in 1966, McNamara said the increase next year will be "nothing of that order...
...Lyndon Johnson, too, who was personally responsible for the most controversial item in the communique-Point 29-pledging an allied troop withdrawal six months after "the other side" withdrew its forces, infiltration was ended and the level of violence had subsided. The point was designed to allay fears in other capitals that the U.S. has no intention of pulling out of Southeast Asia. Even more, it was designed to answer those statesmen-most notably France's Charles de Gaulle and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko-who have urged the U.S. to offer a specific timetable for withdrawal...
...slightest hint of Allied troop withdrawals unhinges the West Germans, who do not share their Allies' conviction that the Soviets have grown less aggressive. But the Germans argue that they cannot finance heavy purchases of British and U.S. equipment. Unless they are willing to undergo some belt tightening to raise additional funds, they may be forced to acquiesce to a thinning out of Allied troops...
...reduce the 218,000-man Seventh Army by 25% unless the Germans come through with substantial purchases. If cuts must come, the Americans hope that they can make them without impairing the army's fighting efficiency; the first reductions would probably be made among supply and support troops. U.S. planners argue that cutbacks would not matter greatly, since by 1970, when the 700-troop-capacity C-5A jets come into service, the U.S. will be able to lift troops overnight from strategic reserves in the U.S. to prepared combat positions in West Germany...
...result of these contradictions has been the notorious "credibility gap." Yesterday's announcement from Manila that U.S. troops will not stay on indefinitely in South Vietnam cannot, by itself, be expected to close the gap. In fact, the declaration followed remarks by U.S. military spokesmen that the current troop build-up will continue unabated. And it means little to pledge withdrawal within six months of a unilateral decision that troops are no longer needed when the key point is uncertain: How far does the U.S. intend to press...