Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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The time is ripe for another escalation of the war, not only because the American people have shown they will stand for it, but also because the military is becoming increasingly hard-pressed to draw its ten-year armed extravaganza to a successful conclusion. The U. S. has gained the...
This time, however, the American escalation will be one of technology, not one of men. During the last several years, the U. S. military has reversed its policy of massive ground war and has instead employed a sophisticated range of machinery to enforce America's will in Southeast Asia. Veterans...
To a significant extent, the mechanization theory of counter-insurgency warfare has reversed the tide in Southeast Asia and enabled the United States to progress toward its ultimate goal of ruling the area. Realizing that there was no other way to defeat a liberation movement which commanded a majority following...
BUT America's immense technological complex in Indochina-sophisticated and deadly as it is-has moved only haltingly to provide complete military victory. Daily pounding of the Ho Chi Minh trail by America's entire Southeast Asian B-52 fleet has failed to stop the flow of supplies from the...
High government officials now realize that U. S. involvement in Vietnam has failed to yield any simple strategy that might cope with insurgent movements elsewhere in the Third World. That is perhaps more significant than the failure to produce victory; for, above all else. Vietnam evolved as an "experiment," a...