Word: fleetness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Landing, yes; invasion, no?although the confusion and panic engendered by the illusion of invasion was precisely the aim of the U.S. planners. In one of the most daring and meticulously rehearsed operations of the long war, a fleet of U.S. helicopters was skimming into North Viet Nam at treetop level, slipping through the narrow "windows" or gaps in Hanoi's radar system frantically preoccupied with the fighter-bombers high in the Vietnamese sky. Aboard the choppers were about 40 Green Beret and Ranger troops led by Army Colonel Arthur ("The Bull") Simons, 52, a near-legendary veteran of World...
Their target was a scant 20 nautical miles from the center of Hanoi: Son Tay, an American prisoner-of-war compound. As the tiny fleet scuttled into North Viet Nam, National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger followed its progress at the Pentagon. The radio monitors in Washington were only two minutes behind the actual events. When the choppers passed their first checkpoint, they were seven minutes ahead of schedule. Kissinger made a quiet joke to a high-ranking officer about the plan's being off. Just wait, Kissinger was told. By the time the squadron passed the last checkpoint...
...standard in the shipping business. Before buying or building a ship, Ludwig would arrange for a client to charter it for up to 20 years. He would then borrow the entire cost of the ship, and repay the loan, plus interest, out of the charter fees. The result: a fleet purchased with other people's money...
...Radio Hanoi charge followed an announcement in Saigon that the U. S. Seventh Fleet had sent a second carrier steaming into the Tonkin Gulf and had doubled its strike capability off the coast of North Vietnam...
Kremlin Scholar. Even as he moves to take some of the starch out of Navy life, Zumwalt has also taken charge of modernizing its forces to meet its traditional missions. He does not like the Administration's insistence that the fleet be cut by about 30% (from roughly 900 to 600 ships); but if it must be done, he wants to decide how to do it. A former director of the Pentagon's Naval Operations Systems Analysis Group, he was selected to argue with former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara's computer-conscious experts in their own language...