Word: troops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...based ICBMs, more than 300 nuclear-armed Po'aris missiles borne by submarines, more than 900 long-range SAC bombers. In the past four years, he said, ready-to-fire nuclear strategic power has tripled. Special Forces to fight "the undeclared, twilight wars of today" have expanded eightfold, troop airlift capacity has doubled...
Tchepone has long been a Communist troop-staging center, and every year about this time-the advent of the dry season-Red forces concentrate there. In Washington last week a high U.S. official refused to call the buildup "dramatic." But there seem to be more troops involved this time than before, and other American officials see it as a possible hedge against U.S. escalation of the war in Viet Nam. Should escalation come and Hanoi move openly into the war, the Communist forces at Tchepone could link up with 5,000 neighboring Viet Cong in a drive to seize South...
...claimed that only one invader was unaccounted for. The main reason for the Indonesians' lack of success has been Britain's firm determination-continued by the Labor government-to honor her treaty obligations for the defense of Malaysia. In the past six months Britain has doubled her troop strength in Malaysia, to some 20,000, and British tommies are doing most of the actual fighting in the bitter little...
...devastating battles of attrition launched at Verdun and the Marne. Vignettes at the Czarist court are fascinating, and one oddly heartwarming sequence (marred by a fake shot of a meter clocking up a fare) shows the famed 600 vintage Paris taxis rattling off to the front as troop transports...
Subsequent events were almost a ritual. There was the usual nighttime powwow by the angered officers. Before dawn the next day, Sunday-it seems to be always on Sunday-there were ominous troop movements in Saigon. Reportedly the operation was directed by Brigadier General Nguyen Chanh Thi, the mustached, intense commander of the I Corps in the northern region, and Air Vice Marshal Nguyen Cao Ky, who affects harlequin glasses and a pearl-handled revolver. Squads of police sped through Saigon's darkened streets, arresting seven council members and a dozen-odd politicians and student leaders...