Word: vietnamize
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...network called the Disaster Monitoring Constellation. Its job includes keeping an orbiting eye on Nigeria's vanishing forest resources and often vandalized oil pipelines. It also watches for impending disasters such as fires and floods and shares the information with a consortium that includes Algeria, China, Thailand, Turkey, Vietnam and Britain...
USAGE The phrase typically describes clusters in wealthy U.S. areas, not a ravaged Iraqi city. Baghdad's model is based on a system implemented during Vietnam. Those "hamlets" failed, but a similar tactic worked for France, which fought insurgents in Algiers...
When David Halberstam and I teamed up in 1963 to cover the Vietnam War--he for the New York Times and I for United Press International--we were too young to have reputations that might help protect us if our work was challenged. The Saigon regime was weak and corrupt, its troops would not fight, and the American advisers we followed into combat confirmed that we were losing the war. Yet we found ourselves under assault from the commanding general and the ambassador, men who insisted that the U.S. and its Saigon ally were winning. They said we were spreading...
...NEIL SHEEHAN, PULITZER PRIZEWINNING AUTHOR OF A BRIGHT SHINING LIE, WHICH DETAILS AMERICA'S FAILURES IN VIETNAM...
...whose first book “An Indian in Cowboy Country: Stories from an Immigrant’s Life” was published last year, said he was part of an immigrant wave which first arrived in the U.S. to fill jobs vacated by Americans then fighting in the Vietnam War. He spoke about the differences between the experiences of the first wave and that of the second generation. “Coming here to do a job and being accepted are two different things,” Anand said. “Our generation’s experience, your...