Word: furnish
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...began plundering Asia as early as the 14th century. The second was the soldier-bureaucrat who went to war a generation ago to develop a "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere," stretching from Manchuria to Burma. His slogan was "Asia for the Asiatics," but his purpose was really to furnish Japan's factories not only with raw materials but also with vast markets for their goods. Today the Japanese have come closer to establishing an informal Co-Prosperity Sphere than ever before (see map, page 27). The difference is that the latter-day wako carries a soroban (abacus) instead...
...greater casualties. LOGISTICS will require another 30,000 Americans. Most will be involved in supplying the remaining U.S. military personnel. The others, mainly air-cargo units and experts in inventory systems and personnel management, will be needed to help the ARVN move supplies that the U.S. has promised to furnish the Saigon government. ADVISORY PERSONNEL, now numbering nearly 80,000, will be reduced by about half. Most of the cuts will be made at the lower command levels; instead of being assigned to every ARVN battalion, U.S. advisers will no longer operate below the regiment or brigade level. Wherever possible...
Strange Accent. Giap's biggest headache is manpower. The Communists have lost nearly 600,000 men since January 1961-comparable to a U.S. loss of more than 6,000,000 troops. Viet Cong units are so depleted that Giap must furnish at least 70% of the guerrillas despite his dwindling reservoir of manpower. Increasingly, both North Vietnamese and Viet Cong units are composed of teenagers. What is more, many of the Northerners are being sent to the southernmost Mekong Delta, a sector that is unfamiliar to them but is rapidly becoming one of the most crucial areas...