Word: troops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Drang last November. In that fight, he held together a single infantry battalion surrounded by three battalions of North Vietnamese regulars. This time he was the aggressor, leading the largest allied force of the war: five infantry battalions, four artillery battalions, plus a team of combat engineers and a troop of aerial reconnaissance men, all riding the helicopters of the most mobile force warfare has ever known...
...danger of his life. At the beginning of 1965, when the U.S. had only 23,300 men in Viet Nam, less than 1% were draftees; today, draftees make up 20% of the nearly 200,000 men in Viet Nam, and the proportion is likely to go higher with rising troop commitments. The new inductee thus has a better than one-in-five chance of reaching the battlefield...
...draft certainly has enough inequities for everyone, but it is about the best method available for filling the nation's present manpower needs, which include troop commitments around the world as well as in Viet Nam. The only reasonable alternative is universal military service, which might take practically every youth for about a year and use him for various military and nonmilitary tasks, including learning skills, serving in the Peace Corps or joining work camps. The trouble with U.M.T. is that it would be far too expensive and inefficient, would produce more young men (about...
...perhaps his greatest contribution, McNamara skillfully implemented the Kennedy Administration's goal of balancing the ability to mete out massive (nuclear) retaliation with the troop strength, versatility and mobility needed to fight limited actions. Five years ago, the U.S. could have blown up much of the world, but it could not have put a relatively small ground force into Southeast Asia without undermining its strength elsewhere. Today the U.S. is able to honor its worldwide commit ments while fighting in South Viet Nam. For some of the very reasons that he is under attack in Congress, McNamara has been...
...love with a beautiful young woman who may or may not be a ghost. A few pages later she turns into the goddess Diana, and with her crescent bow and shining arrow slaughters a satyr who comes galloping along. All at once, the young man is captured by a troop of German soldiers and forced to witness the brutalization of some partisans they have captured. A little later, just as he is about to make love to the gorgeous ghost, he is seized by a powerful Negro who sometimes wears the mask of Anubis, the dog-faced divinity of ancient...