Word: trooped
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Died. Field Marshal Viscount Slim, 79, leader of the "forgotten army" that liberated Burma from the Japanese in World War II; of a stroke; in London. Low on the priority list for supplies and troop replacements, Slim's 800,000-man force often went to battle as lightly armed as guerrillas. The struggle went on for more than three years until May 1945, when the polyglot army of Indians, Nepalese, Africans and Britons captured the port of Rangoon, virtually ending the Burma campaign...
...directives, he ruled that unnecessary troop formations are detrimental to morale, and ''except for special occasions," troops need not assemble for reveille. To make sure that not many such occasions would be found, he ordered that any base commander who calls for such a formation must show...
Laird also stated that the United States is currently slightly ahead of its troop withdrawal schedule. Moreover, he predicted that by January 5, "we will be below...
...Innocents is another such war-glory story. Charles Flood spent a year in Vietnam, flying around with American Army units and doing some occasional fighting, and now tells his story. But Flood's year in Vietnam was in 1967, when American troop levels were still increasing, which suggests how outdated this book is; and although the names in the book do coincide with Vietnamese geography, the war is barely recognizable in the story, which suggests how near-sighted Flood...
...Innocents might have been harmless, though inane, war-time storytelling, except that Flood cannot resist editorializing. This is 1967, remember, and Flood's prescription for ending the war is to increase troop levels to two million American soldiers in Vietnam and thereby "pacify" the countryside. The only officer Flood meets who advocates American withdrawal is a Harvard graduate, as is Flood, so Flood takes a fraternal interest in showing the officer the flaws in his argument. Flood gets along better, however, with yet another Harvard officer, who explains that "the survival of our civilization is ultimately a function...