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Clad in combat fatigues, with a dagger and a revolver buckled to his waist, Major General Olinto M. Barsanti marched up to General William C. Westmoreland at Bien Hoa airbase northeast of Saigon and declared: "The 101st Airborne Division is present for combat in Viet Nam." Arrival of the fresh troops last week marked a new and potentially crucial phase in the war. Westmoreland believes that allied troops have succeeded during 21 years of fighting in pushing the main body of Communist regulars to South Viet Nam's frontiers. Now, in response to the enemy's delaying action...
...addition of 7,000 Screaming Eagle paratroopers was accomplished during a month-long secret airlift, largest of its kind during any war, and boosted U.S. strength to 477,200-topping the peak American force of 472,800 in Korea. More G.I.s are on the way, as Westmoreland presses to achieve a total force of 525,000 promised by President Johnson for next June, several months ahead of schedule in order to press his new offensive...
...motives, modus operandi, or misinformation, the U.S. high command believes it has the winning combination for the main-force, frontier type of war. It has only been in the past year and a half that U.S. forces have been able to put sustained pressure on the Communists, Westmoreland points out. Previously, the massive logistic base to supply the troops had to be established in a primitive country. Yet in that time, Westmoreland asserts that many of the enemy units have been pushed back to the frontiers, or prevented from crossing them. Large Communist forces are now in three...
...also moved many units already stationed in the city to barracks outside of Saigon; Westmoreland even ordered the transfer of MACV headquarters to Tan Son Nhut Airbase, three miles from the city. The Army also began a campaign to persuade G.I.s to save up to buy a new car when they got back home rather than spend their money at $1.35 a cup on "Saigon tea," which they must buy to sit with bar girls. As unlikely as it may seem, even that campaign has had some success. The result of it all has been a reduction by half...
...recent visit to the U.S., General William Westmoreland expressed concern and anger at this enemy build-up just beyond the reach of his troops. There has even been some talk among the military of a Cuba-type "quarantine" of Sihanoukville. But the idea hardly pleases U.S. diplomats. However annoying they find Sihanouk's warm embrace of Hanoi's cause, they recognize that he is engaged in a delicate balancing act to keep his country out of the Communist grip. Even if he fully appreciated the magnitude of the infiltration-as he does not seem to-and were determined...