Word: commandingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...results were both encouraging and dismaying. The U.S. command's assessment that 18 of the 22 ARVN battalions "fought well" is slightly suspect, if only because a great many of the 22,000 troops were employed in occupying static positions and counting enemy bodies after U.S. air strikes. But in general, discipline was high, and there was reason to believe that the South Vietnamese were at last beginning to solve their chronic leadership problems on the squad, platoon and company level. "They had to have damn good small-unit leadership," an Army general argues, "or they wouldn...
...reason why the operation stalled was that it took six days for General Hoang Xuan Lam, the ARVN commander, to get around to establishing a forward command post inside Laos, where the troops, the B-52s and the other elements could be coordinated. What is more, Lam's staff was riven by jealousies. Major General Le Nguyen Khang, who bosses South Viet Nam's elite Marines and holds a slight seniority edge over Lam, was so miffed when Lam was named to run the Laos operation that he retired to Saigon and turned his responsibilities over...
...make the order stick, military units around the country rallied to Lanusse's side. Levingston resigned and Argentina returned to direct military rule, under a junta comprised of Lanusse, Navy Admiral Pedro Gnavi and Air Force Brigadier General Carlos Rey. Lanusse took over the presidency while retaining command of the army, a precaution against future coups. But he and his colleagues also said that they favored a "speedy" return to an elected government, suggesting that it would be earlier than the date four or five years off that Levingston favored...
Meanwhile, the U.S. Command in Saigon reported 56 American combat deaths last week, the highest in a month, and 542 Americans wounded, the highest in six months...
...SANH, South Vietnam-Vietnamese soldiers who marched confidently and enthusiastically into Laos three long weeks ago are returning to this forward command post near Khe Sanh visibly shaken and openly questioning the operation still continuing there...