Word: vietcong
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...confident McGeorge Bundy, special assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, yesterday confronted some of his faculty and student critics. He told an overflow audience in Lowell Lecture Hall that the number of American troops in South Vietnam may be increased by 50 per cent to meet a Vietcong offensive in a critical period of combat during the months ahead...
...Defense Department claims that since 1960 the Vietcong has captured 39,000 weapons from the South Vietnamese forces. During the same period, the Vietcong has lost 25,000 weapons to the government army. This leaves them with a net of 14,000 weapons. The Vietcong has 38-46,000 regulars and approximately 100,000 irregular troops. These men would need 145,000 weapons. Then where did they get the rest of their arms...
...true that most of the Vietcong weapons are of American, French, and Japanese manufacture. However, the French were allowed to evacuate their equipment under the terms of the Geneva agreement and it is unlikely that they left many behind. The largest source of American weapons would be the Democratic Republic of North Vietnam, which received substantial amounts of weapons captured by the Chinese Communist Army in Korea...
...Stone, in his "Reply to the White Paper," tends to dismiss the discovery of a ship running arms on February 16, 1955 as being insignificant. This one ship had enough arms aboard her to re-equip approximately 15 per cent of the hard-core Vietcong force and enough ammunition for 20 full scale battalion actions lasting 24 hours each. One hesitates to think about the effect just ten such shiploads would have on the course of the Vietnam...
While Hoffmann agreed that the consequences in Vietnam might be disastrous, he asked Ellsberg to "produce some evidence that the present policy offers a chance of preventing a Vietcong victory." Although Ellsberg never answered the challenge directly, he did say that U.S. action offered a "chance of improving the prospects for negotiation...