Reports from Vietnam in recent weeks indicate that a qualitatively new phase in the guerilla struggle is being reached. Harassing tactics are giving way to full scale pitched battles involving troops on both sides of battalion strength or more. Last week alone two major engagements occurred in the critical Mekong Delta area south of Saigon. The National Liberation Front forces overran a Government battalion headquarters and occupied six villages inflicting casualties which now run at arate three or four times as high as in the comparable period last year. Commando raids have also taken place against the comp°unds of U.S. military personnel.
The WeekThe Week Vol. 1, No. 8, 19 February 1964
New Phase in Vietnam War
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