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...COST IN MEN. By some time in 1972, while troop levels are still up around 35,000, U.S. casualties could dip to no more than five or six men a week, predicts one high-ranking State Department official. The South Vietnamese will by then be doing almost all of the ground fighting; the Americans will be limited to defense-the kind of routine local security provided by MPs at the gates and in the watchtowers...
...slightly increased withdrawal rates announced last week by the President are maintained, U.S. troop levels will be down to 50,000 by late summer of 1972 and just over 25,000 on Election Day. After that, what U.S. military planners have in mind, starting perhaps by mid-1973, is an "Ethiopian-type mission"* of somewhere between 3,000 and 6,000 men. That would be a return to the kind of presence that the U.S. had in South Viet Nam at the beginning of the 1960s with its Military Assistance Advisory Group. Before that level is reached, there could still...
...bomb had previously been used for blasting out heavy jungle growth and clearing landing spaces for helicopters. "We are not as interested in putting in helicopter pads as we are in knocking out troop concentration." a military source said about the latest use of the blockbusters...
...Saigon, the U.S. Command announced American troops in Indochina now number 296,500, equal to the troop level four-and-a-half years ago. The peak level was 513,000 troops in April 1969. The total is due to drop...
...military, there is no easy exit from either the specific problems created by My Lai or the broader debate over how the war in Indochina has been conducted. The Calley verdict could create serious practical problems of command discipline. Already at Khe Sanh, there is a defiant sign: "A" TROOP, 15T OF THE 15T CAV, SALUTES LT. WILLIAM CALLEY. Many of the enlisted infantrymen in Viet Nam agree. Says one, a member of Calley's old Americal Division: "The people back in the world don't understand this war. We were sent here to kill dinks. How can they convict...