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...TIME tenants near by wondered what mysterious strangers were doing there when everyone else on the floor was on the way home for the evening. For Mike Demarest, it was the third Man of the Year project in a row, since he handled the stories on General William Westmoreland (Jan. 7, 1966) and the Twenty-five and Under generation (Jan. 6, 1967). Writer Kriss had a special qualification for his assignment: he wrote the Man of the Year cover story that appeared Jan. 1, 1965, when the subject was also President Lyndon Baines Johnson...
Though critics claim that U.S. forces are being lured to the frontiers and thus give an undue advantage to the Communists, who enjoy the sanctuary of national borders, Westmoreland is convinced that it is a worthwhile handicap. When the enemy forces do succeed in entering South Viet Nam, he points out, they disrupt the local population, strengthen guerrilla activities, and become harder than ever to root out. It is far better, in his view, to fight the main-force units in the comparative emptiness of the frontier areas, where civilians are not endangered and the full might of U.S. firepower...
Vietnamese units remain in the country, stretched from the outskirts of Hue and Danang in the north, southward to Quang Ngai, Binh Dinh and Phu Yen provinces, and northwest of Saigon in Hau Nghia and Tay Ninh provinces. To ferret them out, says Westmoreland, will take twice the time and twice the cost in casualties it would have taken to stop them at the frontier...
Tweet, Tweet. Unless the Communists sharply intensify the war, the U.S. strategy in coming months will be to press the fight at the borders and to find and destroy the main-force units inland. The tough First Air Cavalry and the 101st Division will become Westmoreland's mobile reserves, ready to meet major Communist moves anywhere in the country. The optimistic hope is that as inland areas become cleared and the remaining main-force units are pushed to the frontiers, the South Vietnamese will be capable of taking over and holding the territory against local guerrillas. Next year they...
Eventually, the Vietnamese forces are scheduled to guard their own frontiers and U.S. troops should be able to withdraw gradually. Westmoreland has set 1969 for the start of a phaseout...