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cr “ae Ph: COUNTEROR J. cION WEEK ba As they see it, the war has gone through three different periods. The first period of the war which started, actually started picking up in around 1960 up until 1965, is the period what they call special war. This is where the U. S. followed pretty much the strategy of using Green Beret kind of advisors and tried to rely upon the puppet army in Saigon as the mrin force ef fighting against the Vietnamese. In 1965 the Vietnamese said they had defeated this strategy and if you remember at that time what had happened, JOHNSON hid ordered the massive escalation of American presen:e in Vietnam, and had started the bombing of Nerth Viet ‘am. The Vietnamese saw the fact the U. S. had to do this as A sign of victory on their part because that it meant that all the U. S. theories of counterinsurgency (phonetic) and special warfare had come to naught, that they were net able to organize a sufficient hase for the Saigon machine, that they had not been able to win the tcinds and hearts of the people to fight, to fight fcr the U. S., and @5 a result nad to rely uptn the massive escalation, sending one- half million U. S. troops. The second period of the war that begai at that time is what they call, well they divide it intc two parts. In South Vietnam they call it the strategy, the U. S. was following the strategy of limited war. And in the North they called the war destruction, destruction against North Vietnam, mainly an air war. With the stopping of the bombing and with the beginning of the tetoffensive (phonetic), the Vietnamese felt that both of these strategies of the U. S. had been defeated. But the U. S., around the time WESTMORELAND was kicked out of Vietnam, kicked upstairs, that the U. S. in the first period and that limited war, followed the strategy of search and destroy missions. Anda later period in limited war that they had followed a strategy that they called clear and hold. The U. &. is no longer able to carry out search and destroy and clear and hold Operations. And they saw that as defeat of limited war. 112 ar a se ana Shen ner oe UTOCAT : pe ener 4 NA gma a ee S aeeaenass ee ae deny RO ae Gian rete Oe