Military strategy research notes

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Military strategy research notes
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Military Background
Dec. ‘67
Westmoreland 2-part series
US planned 10 VC [Viet Cong] bases 2 destroyed any of [shorthand] direct zones in ground troops so VC can't use their bases
Saigon- The Communist operation of military war is based on trigonometry and toy-sized shovels.
These shovels the Communists survived past 2 1/2 years of American [illegible] and [illegible] the initiative in [MF?]. Hence Westmoreland's urgent appeal [shorthand] US troops
The communists launched [illegible]
Abscess of fixation- look [v?] terrain [illegible] front and draw US troops out. These [shorthand] valuable troops. can't send static troops, but combat troops.
‘65-‘66 Fighting learning to survive
‘67 war of attrition
‘67-‘68 Coup. War of Annihilation, next stop if successful [shorthand] to general attack [shorthand] wide
All-front general attack Annihilation to eliminate enemy every fighting force as possible on economy-society-military
Elaborate trigonometry and toy-sized shovels
Saigon-
Scale of escalation in scale campaign of combined troops gla.[?] regular force and [illegible]
Phase 1- preparation of East [illegible] political struggle to lay down in front[?] 1957-1959
Phase 2- gla.[?] warfare- armed military struggle
Phase 3- point covert warfare in 1-2 phases
Military phases
1) gla.[?]
2) Mobile
3) positional warfare regiment in phase III in mid-‘64 [shorthand]
attrition
annihilate for 1 year
general attack all fronts general attack (uprisal in city Moscow or Shanghai types- Bud-type) [shorthand] attack. [shorthand] into cities
not posted in phase 2
opened battle fronts
Communists are [shorthand] toward the peak of phase 3- now at mid-phase 3- at peak in 1965- but pushed to low phase 3 not yet to peak
political-economic [illegible] at peak
Military is still battling, not ready to seize power
Won [shorthand] sideway ‘65-‘66 wear down US forces
3-dimensional war
One-day mobile warfare short [shorthand] age
Communists succeeded in escalating military war in South toward the decisive peak of their final phase 3
In view they demonstrated they won't the [illegible] in box and in fort. The tempo and moment of war
Communist operation on military war based on continuous escalation peak
"step by step"
parabola
While leading American officers say the Communists are heading to defeat [shorthand] eventually fade away.
Siting [sic. citing] statistical data of heavy communist losses for prior case.
The communists [shorthand] they are continuing to win the war and are gaining momentum
But to Communists war trigonometry to implement 3-dimensional war- and [shorthand] they are winning and are gaining momentum.
gla.[?] 2 strategies strength wear down energy and destroy. Small energy units.
which positions are take defensive and offensive
"We can defeat a million Americans"
‘66-‘67 both sides committed officers
Camera will angle and [illegible]
Until spring and season offensive out to April 7 months
‘65-‘66 US president encloses and supporting VN [Vietnam] regiments
1967 US now carry the brunt of war- political detriment
VC- now clone battlefield deviation of battle and the intensity-can sustain longer operations.
politically- US [shorthand] interfere into VN political fabric VN [shorthand] paralyzed.
Date
1967
Subject
Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Strategy; Research
Location
Saigon, South Vietnam
Coordinates
10.8231; 106.6297
Size
21 x 27 cm
Container
B45, F1
Format
research notes
Collection Number
MS 363
Collection Title
Beverly Deepe Keever, Journalism Papers
Creator
Keever, Beverly Deepe
Collector
Keever, Beverly Deepe
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Language
English