Word: interdicting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Moving about many areas of the countryside with relative freedom, the guerrillas interdict roads and harass army supply and communications links. Bands of insurgents occupy villages and occasionally even a sizable town for a few days at a time. When superior government forces arrive, the guerrillas fade away. When the army units move on, the guerrillas are apt to return shortly thereafter. In Chalatenango department, such hit-and-run tactics have forced army troops to stay close to their barracks. In Morazan department, the insurgents control most of the countryside. Last week TIME Correspondent James Willwerth traveled to Morazan...
...other side's favor in land forces. But we must have clear superiority in naval forces. By definition, we would lose a standoff with the Soviet navy." The mission of the U.S. Navy is to keep sea lanes open, while that of the Soviet navy might be to interdict those lanes in a conflict. The American mission is more difficult and requires more force...
...evidence that the guerrillas were obtaining large quantities of sophisticated weapons from a number of sources, including Middle Eastern and East European countries as well as nearby Cuba and Nicaragua. Nicaragua appeared to be serving as the transit point for these arms. In order to "help El Salvador interdict the supply of military equipment coming in from the outside," as U.S. Ambassador Robert White put it, Washington resumed the modest $5 million military aid program that had been suspended since the murders of three American nuns and a lay worker by right-wing death squads a month...