Word: viets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Americans printed up 50,000 pictures of the eyes and had them pinned to people's doors as a warning against aiding the Viet Cong...
...submarines, and the Soviets for bomb-carrying dogs to attack tanks. In the 1940s, Behaviorist B.F. Skinner proposed installing a trained pigeon in front of a screen in the nose of a missile to guide it to a target. The U.S. Army trained dogs for jungle patrol duty in Viet Nam. The dogs would lie down when they met a wounded man, stand still if they saw anyone moving, and sit when they detected a booby trap. Their body position would be sensed electronically and radioed to stations behind the lines...
...Viet Nam, the Army was ever eager for new ploys in psychological warfare. In a program called Operation Black Eye, South Vietnamese assassination teams infiltrated enemy villages, killed Viet Cong leaders quietly in their beds, and left on each body "a piece of paper printed with a grotesque human...
Apparently the most popular psy-war technique in Viet Nam was the most traditional-leafleting. General William Westmoreland was said to be so enthusiastic about the printed propaganda that he wrote some of the pieces himself, and in one typical month in 1969, the U.S. dropped 713 million leaflets over Viet Nam. At least a few pilots developed their own distribution system, dropping leaflets in tied bales to get the chore done quickly. Sometimes the system worked. One harried Viet Cong defector told Americans that his will to resist was broken one day by an astonishing incident: an enormous bundle...
...early ones serve as painless reminders of the way we were before women's lib, the sexual revolution, Viet Nam and Watergate. But Kerr's later work is disquieting because it goes on as if none of these things had happened. A little malice, at least, now seems to be the order...