In the beginning stages of aviation, the Department of the Army activated an organization, the 11th Air Assault (AA) Division (Div.) test these new concepts and ideas for combat operations. ... In the early stages of aviation, helicopters operated to carry troops over difficult terrain to the enemy's rear areas, that is, land for deplaning. ... Helicopters from the activated units transported over 1,000 South Vietnamese paratroopers for an offensive assault on a National Liberation Front (NLF) base. ... The front spanned more than 124 miles. ...

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Taylor divided his analysis of the circumstances into three sections: Strategy: "The communist strategy as defined by North Vietnam and the puppet National Liberation Front is to seek a political settlement favorable to the communists. This political objective is to be achieved by stages, passing first through 'neutralism' using the National Liberation Front machinery and then the technique of coalition government." ...

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The music festivals of the 1960's "embodied the idea of a rock & roll community," and "were meant to fix some problems of the Sixties rock shows".6 The music festival that set the stage for all the others was the Monterey Pop Festival which took place in June of 1967. ...

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Two kinds of War Powers Legislation awaited final action in the Senate and the House in 1973. One would establish strict limits on the President's power to take the country into war without specific authorization by Congress, in pursuance of the power to declare war given to the Congress by the Constitution. The other, more importantly, allowed Congress to use Congressional power to prevent the Executive from taking us into a third Indo-Chinese war. Presidential war-making powers did not become a substantial threat to the Congressional power to declare war until the 21st century with...

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In 1950, the war moved from the passive to the active stage. ... This forced the Viet Minh to revert to a passive stage of revolutionary warfare and gave the French a false sense of security that the Viet Minh could never match them in a "set-piece" battle. ... Moreover, the myriad sectarian interests present in the South, the Catholic areas and the domains of the Cao Dai, Hoa Hao and the Binh Xuyen, were satisfied to negotiate with the French for regional autonomy and prevented the formation of a broadly based popular front. ...

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