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Dyson to AUSA: Sequestration may reduce Army budget by $6 billion
AUSA Staff
A senior Army finance officer provided a glimpse into the service's fiscal year 2016 budget request of $126.5 billion and what could happen should sequestration kick in, reducing that amount by about $6 billion.Lt. Gen. Karen E. Dyson, military deputy to the assistant secretary of the Army, financial management and comptroller, spoke to members of the Association of the U.S. Army at its Institution of Land Warfare breakfast meeting held in early February.She said that for soldiers to be equipped and prepared to move out on "very unusual missions," as well as "full-spectrum, decisive-action missions, the Army needs to have predictability and continuity in funding to build readiness."The FY16 budget was supposed to correspond with the downsizing of the force that was supposed to correspond with less demand for Army forces, Dyson said.Instead "three big things" came up, which were totally unplanned a year ago – the aggression in Ukraine, response to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, and the Ebola crisis in Africa, she said.Dyson said the concern leadership has, as the Army looks to the future, is uncertain funding levels will impact the Army's ability to be able to meet full-spectrum readiness, which is needed across the force to provide for unplanned missions."Now as I look at FY16, some of the things that are happening across our Title 10 responsibilities are that our Army is continuing to shrink," she said.Adding, "We'll be at 490,000 soldiers in the active force; 335,000 in the National Guard and 202,000 in the Army Reserve at the end of this year and we'll continue to shrink in FY16 by another 15,000 from the active component, 8,000 from the National Guard and another 4,000 from the Army Reserve."Dyson said the Army was continuously reorganizing its brigade combat teams as well as shrinking the number, and that modernization strategy is one that's incremental and builds on the equipment the Army already has, "because we just can't afford to do it right now."Equipment sustainment continues to be reliant on both "base" funding and Overseas Contingency Operations, or OCO, funds, she said, but OCO dollars have been steadily declining over the last four years, shrinking to about 60 percent."The industrial base that performs a lot of sustainment activities – the depots, arsenals and ammunition plants – are very important to how we sustain capability," she said.Adding, "The real challenge we have there is the workload is declining because as our Army gets smaller, the workload to those activities gets smaller.""Training is where we are really focusing today and in FY16," Dyson said.She noted, "What we are doing in our training is that we are leveraging the ideas that are coming out of the Army's operating concept that really suggest that our future is very uncertain and very unknown."She said the way the Army was going after that problem was by looking at how it can build leaders who can look at these complexities in the future and can be prepared to meet those unknown demands.Dyson said the Army has increased funding for military and civilian educational opportunities."And, we are standing firm on our commitment to combat training center exercises because we firmly believe this is the way you build depth of leadership experience," Dyson said.Adding, "You get the captains, majors and the lieutenant colonels who go through these rotations time and again, and they build that kind of experience they haven't been able to build because of the focus on the counter-insurgency missions."Dyson said the overall modernization strategy was focused on the soldier – what the soldier wears, the weight a soldier carries, what the soldier shoots and the communications technology for the soldier.She said the network continues to be a huge priority, as does cyber-threat defeat."In procurement, we're focusing on our aviation platforms, those aircraft that fit inside the Aviation Restructuring Initiative and then on our ground vehicle strategy," she said.She added, "Again, we're just incrementally improving what we already have by working on change proposals that will increase protection and provide the abilities to increase network capabilities, but still on the platforms that we already have."We have not lost sight of a future infantry fighting vehicle which we're investing science and technology funding into refining the concepts we need," she said."And, we've just awarded the contract for the armored multipurpose vehicle to begin building the prototypes as a replacement for the armored personnel carrier."She also said, "We learned some lessons from FY13," Dyson said. "One of the lessons we learned is that we have to protect our training, planning and our continuum of training that builds readiness, but this risk of sequestration coming at us, sort of year by year, is very interruptive to the continuum of planning that it takes to build readiness."The nation depends on the Army to be ready when it's called upon for unusual missions that we cannot predict on a day-to-day basis as we've seen happen in Europe, in Africa and in Iraq."
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Irish parliament report urges UK to adopt Good Friday Agreement into law
An Irish parliament report into the UK's withdrawal from the European Union has urged Westminster to transpose the Good Friday Agreement (GFA) into law.
A report from the Seanad (Ireland's lower house) select committee into Brexit was published on Tuesday and details testimony from Les Allamby, the chief commissioner of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission (NIHRC).
Mr Allamby recommended to the committee that UK domestic legislation by amended to transfer the Good Friday Agreement into law.
The law change would remedy what is seen as "unequal citizenship" due to a lack of clarification on retained EU legal rights, which may only apply to those who identify as Irish in Northern Ireland, leaving out anyone who identifies as British, which would be contrary to the GFA, under its equality framework.
The NIHRC said such a move would go towards guaranteeing equality of citizenship in Northern Ireland and protect border communities, which stand to be hardest hit economically during Brexit due to the disruption to cross-border trade.
Although the committee concedes it cannot force the UK's hand, it hopes Irish premier Leo Varadkar and the EU Commission could take the proposal to Boris Johnson's Government.
"We had a number of conversations with solicitors and academics on how this could be achieved, and what the UK does in internal matters is something we have no control over but we can encourage and absolutely engage," committee chairman Senator Neale Richmond said.
"We'd be very encouraged if the British administration would go down that path, but we're quite content that the Irish government has implemented what they need to implement."
The report will now be handed off to Mr Varadkar and Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney, as well as EU Commissioner Michel Barnier.
The report also urged the EU to show patience and flexibility with the UK in the next phase of the Brexit process.
The Taioseach meeting with Prime Minister Boris Johnson earlier this year (Office of Leo Varadkar/PA)
The select committee expects negotiations on a future EU-UK relationship to be "long and complicated", despite the ambitious timetable of the British Government to conclude talks in 10 months.
The committee also welcomes the Revised Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland in the Withdrawal Agreement agreed between the UK and EU in October 2019 and the joint commitment by the EU and UK to avoid a hard border.
The revised protocol, which replaced the 'Irish backstop' plan with a new dual-tariff scheme has also been welcomed, along with a selection of EU trading rules applying to the island of Ireland.
The committee said this will ensure there are no border checks and no tariffs on goods traded between Ireland and Northern Ireland.
The committee issued its first report with 99 recommendations in July 2017.
The work of the committee has been extended six times in response to the extension of the Brexit process beyond March 29, 2019.

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est une plage musicale sortie en 2013 par le duo écossais de musique électronique Boards of Canada. Il s'agit de la deuxième piste et du premier simple de l'album Tomorrow's Harvest.

Promotion
Reach for the Dead est diffusé pour la première fois le  dans l'émission de Zane Lowe sur BBC Radio 1. À la suite de cette diffusion, la piste est accessible sur le SoundCloud officiel du label Warp Records, ainsi que sur les sites de plusieurs magasins de disques numériques.

Clip
Le clip de Reach for the Dead est réalisé par Neil Krug, un photographe et réalisateur de Los Angeles qui avait déjà créé une vidéo non officielle pour la chanson de Boards of Canada In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country. Le clip met en scène des images floues d'un désert et une ville fantôme sans nom.

Le clip est diffusé pour la première fois à Tokyo au Japon à minuit le . La vidéo y est projetée sur l'écran géant apposé sur un immeuble de Shibuya. Elle est ensuite diffusée sur YouTube et Vimeo. Le jour suivant, Warp Records publie un message sur Twitter annonçant l'édition d'une version inversée de cette vidéo.

Pistes

Annexes

Liens internes
 Boards of Canada

Références

Album de Boards of Canada
Album publié par Warp Records
Single musical sorti en 2013

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Get set for yet another exciting weekend in Bedford, as Pocket Explorers comes to The Pavilion to host an Autumn Family Fun Day. Pocket Explorers is an app designed to encourage children to take part in activities outdoors, learn about nature and enjoy being outside. This is all stuff that we're passionate about too - so we're delighted to host the event. Please come along and get involved. (It's not every day that you can give zorbing a go at Bedford Park.) We can promise excellent post-zorbing tea, coffee and cake.
The team from Pocket Explorers say: "the app is full of activities and trails to get children closer to nature and heighten their sense of adventure. From making a den to bug hunting and trail mapping, each activity completed will reward them with points. Points equal badges!
To launch our app we are having an Autumn Family Fun Day at the Bedford Pavilion on Saturday 4th October 2014 10am-5pm.
The day is going to be lots of fun and full of activities that children (and parents) can get involved in, including Go Karts, Facepainting, Assault Course, Zorbing, Ferrets, Treasure Trails and an exciting Raffle.
You can download the Pocket Explorers app from the App Store today, ready and waiting for you to unlock hidden activities and missions.
So go out and get exploring with Pocket Explorers - we'll see you all on Saturday 4th October!"


On the way back to San Francisco from Auckland, New Zealand I did not get to fly in Polaris Business Class. However, I did get the opportunity to check out the Emperor Lounge in the international terminal of Auckland Airport. It's to the right when you get through security, at the bottom of some escalators.
Walking in I was greeted pleasantly at the front desk by the hostess. She took my Priority Pass card and pointed me around the lounge. I walked around a bit and then settled in with a sparkling water and a charging port while I waited to board my flight. There's a flight monitor screen in the room I was in, making it easy to keep an eye on when you need to head to your gate.
The plugs were standard New Zealand and there were about one for every chair along the wall.
I observed two open bars, with liquor and mixers available. In the fridge were Heinekens, Steinlager Pures, and a few other beers as well. Wine, sodas, sparking water, still water, and some juices were also available, all complimentary.
I arrived around lunch time. A buffet was set with a nice chicken orzo salad, rice and curry, and several other options. There was also an assorted cheese plate which was tasty. Tables and chairs were available to dine at. Couches and stuff chairs in three distinct areas provides plenty of space to relax and unwind a bit.
There were about 6 large unisex bathrooms, two of which had showers and baby changing stations.
When I checked into the Emperor Lounge in Auckland Airport, I used what I thought was my Chase Sapphire Preferred Priority Pass card. The CSP comes with free lounge access. However, I accidentally used the American Express Hilton HHonors Surpass Priority Pass card, which charges $27 every time you use a Priority Pass lounge!
The two Priority Pass cards look identical except for the account numbers and expiration date. Grant at the Travel With Grant blog had a similar issue. I just used the one with the later expiration date, thinking it was replacing the other card. Not true, apparently. I called Priority Pass to see if they could move the charge from the AMEX to the CSP. No luck.
Oh well, I will eat the $27 and learn my lesson. I chopped up and threw away the AMEX Priority Pass card and I will keep my CSP PP Card so I get free lounge access in the future. Don't make the same mistake I did if you want to save $27!
All in all, it was a great lounge experience. Probably not worth $27 since I only had a water and charged my phone, but it was very nice to get away from the maddening crowds for a bit. Also, if you help yourself to the food and beverages it can be well worth the price of admission. Next time I'll use my CSP Priority Pass and enjoy the Emperor Lounge Auckland Airport for free.


She is on my wish list too! Another idea SW would be to just do a map with the type of events you would most likely go to yourself. Only 3 women were advertised by name or picture and 10 women were there, partying with 45 men. And maybe get laid for free?
I guess they still try to do it, because it had worked with Maja and Larissa so well. For the other ones, you can still check the older maps.
Hi, I was wondering if any of you guys would be willing to take me under their wing and show me the ropes I would love to go to a lot of these events but I don't know German and I don't know where to start. And after I finished she immediately ran into the bathroom to clean herself Schlammschieben was announced and after she came back, ordered me to wash too. I am surely not at Villa Frivol in Wallenhorst todays evening.
Die will ich auf so ner Party auch mal durchbumsen! Aber bitte ohne Kondom! Ich will Lenas Gebahrmutter spuren!


Training can often be a tricky thing to measure. Just because it's difficult, doesn't mean we shouldn't try. After all, when the people who make budget decisions decide to ask what the value of your training program is, you'll need a good answer.
With today's blog, I'm going to try something a little different. I'd like to get your thoughts, dear reader, on the following question. Share your thoughts in the comment section. I'll come back on Thursday summarizing all the thoughts that are contributed here and add my own thoughts as well.
The question: Which of the following is the BEST metric to measure a training program?
97% of staff have completed the 75-minute mandatory Unconscious Bias training session since its roll-out six weeks ago.
Average participant feedback scores for this training component were 4.8 out of a possible 5.
The eLearning module cost us $18,900 to produce. Employees who completed it have seen re-work errors drop by 24%, saving an average of 2.25 hours of re-work per employee per day. This equates to an average daily boost in productivity of $540, or $2,700 per week.
Participant post-test scores rose by an average of 17% compared to their pre-test scores.
Following the roll-out of the new customer service training, customer wait times have been reduced by an average of 2 minutes per call.
The Net Promoter Score (NPS) on our 1-day New Employee Orientation program is 54.
Locations that have completed this 2-day training program have realized a 13% increase in revenue compared to those who have not yet completed this training program.
After 3 months, 78% of learners who responded to the survey said they were still applying the new technique.
88% of participants responded that they are either extremely likely or likely to apply these skills in their work.
After 90 days 62% of managers reported that employees are applying new skills after the training.
Give me some thoughts about which of these is the most powerful metric (and why) in the Comment section, and I'll compile what's written and add my own thoughts this Thursday.
I say #3 because it shows numbers that demonstrate how training supports the bottom line.
#3 because numbers talk! Everyone, from the new hire to the CEO, can understand the value training related to this statement.
#6 is very important because customer service = bottom line = EVERYTHING!
#12 of course because that is what we want to see.
#3 is the most powerful, in my opinion. It gives measurable results that equate to the value of the training. We can easily see that at the rate of improvement from those who have taken the training the course pays for it's self in seven weeks. And, there is an assumption that not all staff have taken the course so that number may go down. Money talks.
3 and 8 are tied to business goals and will resonate with everyone from management to marketing. There are some other decent ones in there, and of course you included some that are as familiar as they are meaningless. Well done!
I actually think most of those points are valuable indicators of traction of the training, apart from those couple that were a simple statistic, 97% completed, whilst at a compliance level that may be needed, seeing increases in positive work actions and reductions on negative ones are pleasing if attributable to the training in part/all, also seeing attitudes to training change- "that module was the most engaging in 10 years" etc.
Hi Brian. To me, it's number 10. I believe having longevity in your training will have the most impact long-term and give the company sustainability and greater productivity.
Your question is about the "value of the training program". There are different kinds of values, as your list suggests. There are also different goals. So I'd want to know what the desired outcomes of the training were, and then develop a post-training survey that sought to pull out data on that metric. Specificity to the goal is key.
# 3 to the stakeholders who are involved in signing of the budget.
# 2, 4, 5, 12 to the training team ( people creating the content and facilitator) They need immediate gratification for their work.
I like the quotes, especially #4 that stated it was, "… the best training in 10 years." The quote is easy to remember and shows how the training resonated with the audience. The numbers, or data as listed in # 3 with the cost savings, is powerful too and this is an important thing to include with the testimonials as it takes any testimonial to a new level.
I will sit on the fence and say that 'It depends on the goal of the training' and 'What is it you are measuring'.
Ultimately I believe, that in context they are all important measures as they measure the training experience (#2 & #4), learning (#5), behaviour change ( #10 & #12), and impact on the business (#3 & #8).
They are all valuable metrics that can be used at various times to measure engagement, impact and effectiveness, and a well designed training programme should combine a variety of these metrics.
I believe that # 3 would show justification or results for dollars of input. The initial cost should always be considered when you look at outcome.


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Q: Unit testing with Flavor keeps failing and show 'The events were not received' I set,
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And I am using Java Home for Gradle JDK.
The error is here:
Execution failed for task ':app:testDevDebugUnitTest'.

org.gradle.api.tasks.TaskExecutionException: Execution failed for task ':app:testDevDebugUnitTest'.
    at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.ExecuteActionsTaskExecuter.lambda$executeIfValid$1(ExecuteActionsTaskExecuter.java:145)
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The difference was just using Flavor.
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My guess is adding flavor changes the path that needs while testing and this happened. So, I've changed path and also changed testImplementation to testDevImplementation but didn't work.
I added dev flavor this happened.. What have I been missing?

A: This is because JUnit4 is used with JUnit5. In this case, JUnit4 is not approachable. To be able to use JUnit4(backward compatibility), You need to use junit vintage like this:
dependencies {
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}

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This is the last installment in this "Room by Room" breakdown series, of my Holiday Decor. I just have a few photos to share with you today. I'm starting with the Wreath on my front door, since that's the first thing that you see when you enter the Foyer. I had it made at a local historical society in a town not too far from where we live. I thought they did a beautiful job on it, and the money went towards their fund for a new roof, so it went to a good cause!
This year I dressed my staircase in this Golden Leaf Garland that I got at Michael's. I cleared them out, and I would have liked to have gotten a few more sections for the other side of the railing. Hopefully they will carry it again next year.
Here's a close up of it. It sort of looks like Bay Leaves although it's faux.
If you were to look up you would see the amazing Antique French Chandelier that I purchased from my dear friend Ted, who passed away last year. Ted gave me an incredible deal on it, and I think of him every time I see it.
Here are a few odds and ends that I put on the server that sits in my foyer. I pulled together some Gold Clocks that had been in another room and added this wreath, that has a gold pot. You don't always have to use items that are meant for the Holidays in your decor, you can save money by pulling together items that fit your color scheme, from all over the house.
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You have a truly beautiful home Karen, you can tell your heart and soul went into it. Your front door make-over is gorgeous and just in time for the Holidays to greet your guests! Thank you so much for sharing your home and creativity.
Thank you so much Pendra!! Holiday Hugs to you too!!
Love the way you used the gold garland. I have the same one – bought it at Michael's about 4 years ago and usually have it laid out on the dining room table. Merry Christmas.
Thanks Heather! I guess we think alike, because I bought the silver one and laid it on my dining room table! Haha. I'm glad to know that they carry this each year, since I'm hoping to get more of it next year!
You have a lovely home, Karen! Your garland is so pretty and festive! If your transferware dish goes missing- I don't have it! It's all so pretty! Merry Christmas!
Thanks Betsy!! I'm glad you liked the dish .. I think! haha! Merry Christmas to you too!


Created by the French designers Henri de Sant Julien and Jacques Denain, the Tungstene deck was initially created for the artists' private use. However, Dan & Dave put on sale a limited amount of decks.
The one-way back design of the cards displays the Earth bursting with ideas. Each card features a quick response code which will reveal a text in French. The deck is fully custom. The court cards and Jokers are based on real people. For example, the Jack of Spades is a tribute to Dominique Duvivier, a French magician. The deck comes with two extra cards, one of them featuring a small labyrinth that reminds us how difficult getting a good idea can be.
Ideal for cardistry, this deck handles remarkably well and offers a unique design.


ANGALORE, India, July 13 -- The backlash against the outsourcing of software and back-office services to India appears to have died down, executives here said Tuesday as a bellwether company posted better-than-expected earnings, mostly on improved business from the United States.
The company, India's second largest for software and services outsourcing, Infosys Technologies, said on Tuesday that its quarterly profit had increased 39.2 percent, helped by the economic recovery in United States, its prime market. Net profit rose to 3.88 billion rupees ($84.3 million) in the April to June period, its first fiscal quarter, while revenue was 15.2 billion rupees ($33.04 million), a rise of almost 39 percent.
The results at Infosys, the first of a series of Indian outsourcing companies to post earnings, underscored that pressure against Indian software and back-office companies was easing, though the emotional protests against it in the United States and Europe never seemed to actually cut into business.
"The backlash against outsourcing has abated, customer spending is on the rise and we have redesigned ourselves internally to take advantage of the vast opportunities," said Nandan M. Nilekani, chief executive of Infosys.
Nearly two-thirds of Infosys's earnings come from customers in the United States. The outsourcing company hired 2,305 employees in the quarter, bringing its work force to nearly 28,000, and added 29 clients, taking that total to more than 400. That roster includes Reebok, Amazon, Cisco, Apple and Boeing.
Infosys shares closed almost 2 percent higher on the Mumbai stock exchange.
India's outsourcing sector has boomed as global companies have shifted work offshore to take advantage of the country's skilled, cheap, English-speaking labor force. The loss of jobs to India from the United States and Europe became a political cause, however, which sent ripples of anxiety through the industry.
India's $15 billion software and back-office services sector has grown at around 30 percent in the last few years, with the industry looking for $50 billion in business by 2008. Most of the business, about $12.5 billion, is with companies outside India, and more than two-thirds of that from the United States. The industry employs just short of a million people in India.
Some executives said the Infosys results could be the turning point for the industry's preoccupation with the backlash issue.
"The debate about outsourcing appears to have moved from an emotional, anecdotal, job-losses plane to a more sober, balanced one about the advantages of globalization of services," said Sunil Mehta, vice president of Nasscom, India's leading software industry trade body.
Infosys, known for its conservative earnings outlook, especially during the backlash period, said it expected sales to rise nearly 40 percent in the current year. "Infosys continues to benefit from the positive demand environment for offshore services," said S. D. Shibulal, head of worldwide customer delivery.
Though the furor in the United States has died down some, the National Foundation for American Policy, a research group, says more than 100 bills are pending in 38 states to curb the use of offshore contractors by state and local governments, and legislation has been passed in 5 states and vetoed in 2.
Earlier this year, Congress enacted an amendment to the federal omnibus appropriations act, sponsored by Senators Craig Thomas of Wyoming and George V. Voinovich of Ohio, both Republicans, that prohibits the use of offshore workers on some government jobs. And Senator John Kerry, the Democratic candidate for president, earlier this year referred to the outsourcers as "Benedict Arnold companies and C.E.O.'s," but lately has been relatively quiet on the issue.
Earlier this year, executives from American companies that outsourced to India came on clandestine visits, rarely spoke about what deals were being negotiated and forbade Indian companies from publicizing the contracts.
As Indian outsourcing companies grew fearful that negative publicity would harm business, Nasscom tried to protect themselves by campaigning for outsourcing with lawmakers, government officials and industry lobbies in the United States and Europe.
But in the last two months, analysts say the backlash issue seems to be fading in importance to the American public and to United States businesses.
"No longer are customers prefacing outsourcing questions with what they should do to deflect the backlash issue," said Partha Iyengar, research director for Gartner in Mumbai. Gartner nonetheless still recommends that its United States clients continue with employee-impact assessments and community audits before embarking on outsourcing.
Some experts said they expected the concerns to be replaced by more pressing matters, like the shortage of skilled labor.
"Most companies are expanding so rapidly," Mr. Mehta of Nasscom said, "that we fear the new threat for outsourcing is not the backlash but the imbalance in supply of skilled professionals."
The hostility against outsourcing may have inadvertently helped the industry, some experts suggested.
"The backlash proved a gold mine of free publicity for Indian outsourcing companies," Mr. Iyengar of Gartner said. "For many U.S. companies, the backlash made offshoring a compelling proposition."
Even smaller outsourcing companies, like iGate Global Solutions, based in Bangalore, reached some deals after the controversy. The company, with $125 million in annual revenues and 4,000 employees, has customers like General Electric, GreenPoint Financial and Kraft Foods.
"The backlash issue made outsourcing so mainstream that even my barber was speaking knowledgeably about outsourcing," said iGate's chief executive, Phaneesh Murthy, who is based in Fremont, Calif.


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IV Corps (South Vietnam)
IV Corps
ARVN
Garrison/HQ
Motto(s)
Tự Thắng - Tự Cường (Self Winning - Self Reinforcing)
Nguyễn Vĩnh Nghi
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The IV Corps (Vietnamese: Quân đoàn IV) was a corps of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN), the army of the nation state of South Vietnam that existed from 1955 to 1975. It was one of four corps in the ARVN, and it oversaw the Mekong Delta region of the country.
The Mekong Delta was the heartland of agricultural South Vietnam, it encompassed the fertile alluvial plains formed by the Mekong River and its main tributary, the Bassac River. With its sixteen provinces, the Delta contained about two-thirds of the nation's population and yielded the same proportion in rice production;[1]:137 the terrain of IV Corps differed radically from other regions. Flat and mostly uncovered, it consisted of mangrove swamps and ricefields crisscrossed by an interlocking system of canals, natural and artificial. Except for some isolated mountains to the west near the Cambodian border, few areas in the Delta had an elevation of more than 10 feet (3.0 m) above sea level. During the monsoon season, most of the swampy land north of Route QL-4, generally called the Plain of Reeds, was inundated, especially when alluvial waters raised the level of the Mekong River from July to October. Other undeveloped swampy areas along the coast had turned into havens that sheltered Viet Cong (VC) main force units just as the scattered bases inland offered good refuge for local guerrillas.[1]:137-9
The 7th Division based in Mỹ Tho was a part of the IV Corps, and due to the division's close proximity to the capital Saigon was a key factor in the success or failure of the various coup attempts in the nation's history. In the coup attempt of 1960, the loyalist Colonel Huỳnh Văn Cao used the Seventh Division to storm into Saigon to save President Ngô Đình Diệm.
In 1962, Diem decided to split the command of the area in the south around Saigon into two, the former III Corps area being reduced in size to cover the area northeast of Saigon, and the newly created IV Corps taking over the west and southwest.[2]:80 Cao was promoted to general and assumed command of the new IV Corps Tactical Zone, which included the area of operations of his 7th Infantry Division.
ARVN forces under the control of IV Corps consisted of three infantry divisions, two mobile and six border ranger groups. In addition, the territorial forces of MR-4 totaled about 200,000, by far the most numerous among the four military regions; the 7th Division was headquartered at Đồng Tâm Base Camp in Dinh Tuong Province; the 9th Division was located in Sa Đéc and the 21st Division usually operated in the Cà Mau Peninsula from its headquarters at Bạc Lieu. Despite the substantial combat support and significant advisory effort, both military and civilian, provided by the United States, primary responsibility for the combat effort in IV Corps had always been Vietnamese, even during the period when U.S. units operated in the Mekong Delta.[1]:139
Central Office for South Vietnam's Resolution No. 9 disseminated in 1969, emphasized the strategic importance of the Mekong Delta and conceived it as the principal battlefield where the outcome of the war in South Vietnam would be decided, the PAVN/VC infiltrated the 1st Division Headquarters and its three regiments, the 88th, 101D and 95A into IV Corps. This effort succeeded despite heavy losses. IV Corps forces were thrown off-balance and the pacification effort declined as a result of extensive PAVN/VC attacks and shellings. Not until after the PAVN/VC's sanctuaries beyond the border had been destroyed during the Cambodian Campaign and their capability to resupply from the sea eliminated were these 1st Division forces compelled to break down into small elements and withdraw. Part of these elements fell back into bases within IV Corps; others retreated toward Cambodia.[1]:139
IV Corps was therefore able to regain the initiative during 1971, its efforts during the year consisted of continuing operations on Cambodian soil to assist the weaker Khmer National Armed Forces and interdicting PAVN/VC supply routes into the Mekong Delta. Concurrently, it also emphasized the elimination of PAVN/VC's bases in the Delta. In addition, they also established a new system of outposts to maintain government control over what had been the PAVN/VC's long-established base areas; the most significant achievements during this period were the neutralization of the extremely heavy enemy fortifications of Base Area 400 in the That Son (Seven Mountains) area by the 9th Division, the continued destruction of Base Area 483 in the U Minh Forest by the 21st Division, the coordinated activities of the 7th Division and territorial forces in Base Area 470 on the boundary of Dinh Tuong and Kien Phong Provinces, and finally, the successful pacification campaign in Kien Hoa Province, the cradle of VC insurgency. As a result of these achievements, the situation in IV Corps was particularly bright by early 1972. About 95% of the Delta population lived in secure villages and hamlets. Rice production had increased substantially and education was available to every child of school age. Prospects for the Delta's future looked promising as key government programs such as Land-to-the-Tiller and Hamlet Self-Development were gaining momentum; the four-year Community Defense and Local Development Plan that the government had initiated in March 1972 presaged an even brighter future for the farmers of the Mekong Delta.[1]:141
On 3 May 1972 Corps' commander Lieutenant General Ngô Quang Trưởng, was appointed commander of I Corps and Major General Nguyễn Vĩnh Nghi assumed command of the Corps.[1]:50:146
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Cambodian Campaign
The Cambodian Campaign was a series of military operations conducted in eastern Cambodia during 1970 by the United States and the Republic of Vietnam as an extension of the Vietnam War and the Cambodian Civil War. The invasions were a policy of President Richard Nixon; the objective of the campaign was the defeat of the 40,000 troops of the People's Army of Vietnam and the Viet Cong in the eastern border regions of Cambodia. Cambodian neutrality and military weakness made its territory a safe zone where Vietnamese communist forces could establish bases for operations over the border. With the US shifting toward a policy of Vietnamization and withdrawal, it sought to shore up the South Vietnamese government by eliminating the cross-border threat. A change in the Cambodian government allowed an opportunity to destroy the bases in 1970, when Prince Norodom Sihanouk was deposed and replaced by pro-US General Lon Nol. A series of South Vietnamese-Lon Nol operations had captured a few towns, but the Viet Cong military and political leadership had narrowly escaped the cordon.
The operation was a response to a North Vietnamese offensive on 29 March against the Cambodian Army that captured large parts of eastern Cambodia in the wake of these operations. Allied military operations failed to eliminate many communist troops or to capture their elusive headquarters, known as the Central Office for South Vietnam as they had left a month prior, but the haul of captured material in Cambodia prompted claims of success; the PAVN had been utilizing large sections of unpopulated eastern Cambodia as sanctuaries into which they could withdraw from the struggle in South Vietnam to rest and reorganize without being attacked. These base areas were utilized by the PAVN and VC to store weapons and other material, transported on a large scale into the region on the Sihanouk Trail. PAVN forces had begun moving through Cambodian territory as early as 1963. Cambodian neutrality had been violated by South Vietnamese forces in pursuit of political-military factions opposed to the regime of Ngô Đình Diệm in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
In 1966, Prince Norodom Sihanouk, ruler of Cambodia, convinced of eventual communist victory in Southeast Asia and fearful for the future of his rule, had concluded an agreement with the People's Republic of China which allowed the establishment of permanent communist bases on Cambodian soil and the use of the Cambodian port of Sihanoukville for resupply. During 1968, Cambodia's indigenous communist movement, labeled Khmer Rouge by Sihanouk, began an insurgency to overthrow the government. While they received limited material help from the North Vietnamese at the time, they were able to shelter their forces in areas controlled by PAVN/VC troops; the US government was aware of these activities in Cambodia, but refrained from taking overt military action within Cambodia in hopes of convincing the mercurial Sihanouk to alter his position. To accomplish this, President Lyndon B. Johnson authorized covert cross-border reconnaissance operations conducted by the secret Studies and Observations Group in order to gather intelligence on PAVN/VC activities in the border regions.
This intelligence data would be presented to the prince in an effort to change his mind. The new commander of the US Military Assistance Command, General Creighton W. Abrams, recommended to President Richard M. Nixon shortly after his inauguration that the Cambodian Base Areas be attacked by aerial bombardment utilizing B-52 Stratofortress bombers; the president refused, but the breaking point came with the launching of PAVN's Tet 1969 Offensive within South Vietnam. Nixon, angered at what he perceived as a violation of the "agreement" with Hanoi after the cessation of the bombing of North Vietnam, authorized the covert air campaign; the first mission of Operation Menu was dispatched on 18 March and by the time it was completed 14 months more than 3,000 sorties had been flown and 108,000 tons of ordnance had been dropped on eastern Cambodia. While Sihanouk was abroad in France for a rest cure in January 1970, government-sponsored anti-Vietnamese demonstrations were held throughout Cambodia.
Continued unrest spurred Prime Minister/Defense Minister Lon Nol to close the port of Sihanoukville to communist supplies and to issue an ultimatum on 12 March to the North Vietnamese to withdraw their forces from Cambodia within 72 hours. The prince, outraged that his "modus vivendi" with the communists had been disturbed arranged for a trip to Moscow and Beijing in an attempt to gain their agreement to apply pressure on Hanoi to restrain its forces in Cambodia. On 18 March, the Cambodian National Assembly deposed Sihanouk and named Lon Nol as provisional head of state; this led Sihanouk to establish a government-in-exile in Beijing and to ally himself with North Vietnam, the Khmer Rouge, the VC, the Laotian Pathet Lao. In doing so, Sihanouk lent his name and popularity in the rural areas of Cambodia to a movement over which he had little control; the North Vietnamese response to the coup was swift. PAVN began directly supplying large amounts of weapons and advisors to the Khmer Rouge, Cambodia plunged into civil war.
Lon Nol saw Cambodia's population of 400,000 ethnic Vietnamese as possible hostages to prevent PAVN attacks and ordered their roundup and internment. Cambodian soldiers and civilians unleas
Khmer National Armed Forces
The Khmer National Armed Forces abbreviated to FANK, were the official armed defense forces of the Khmer Republic, a short-lived state that existed from 1970 to 1975, known today as Cambodia. The FANK was the successor of the Royal Khmer Armed Forces, responsible for the defense of the previous Kingdom of Cambodia since its independence in 1954 from France. Being a continuation of the old Royal armed forces under a new name, the FANK played a more partisan role in the Cambodian Civil War that escalated following the deposition as Head of State of Prince Norodom Sihanouk by a coup d'état in March 1970 orchestrated by his own Prime-Minister General Lon Nol. Although the armed forces of the Kingdom had been involved since April 1967 in the suppression of the Communist Party of Kampuchea's rebellion led by Saloth Sar, up until Sihanouk's overthrow it was considered to have the consensual backing of the Cambodian society, as the Prince was considered the symbol of the people. On November 20, 1953, the French protectorate of Cambodia was granted full independence by France, allowing the young King Norodom Sihanouk to lead the government of the first post-colonial state in French-ruled Indochina.
Under the terms of the Geneva Accords signed the following year which ended the Indochina War, French Army and Vietnamese Vietminh guerrilla units still operating in Cambodia were obliged to withdraw from its territory and that a new defense force was to be raised. Trained by the French and equipped by the United States since September 1950, the armed forces of the new Kingdom of Cambodia were formed by Khmer regular soldiers transferred from French colonial units, though ex-Vietminh and former Khmer Issarak guerrillas of Khmer origin were allowed to join. Most of the senior members of the Officer corps had been officials in the colonial regime. Lon Nol, for example, served as Commander of the Cambodian Police under the French protectorate. In 1955 Gen. Lon was promoted to Chief-of-Staff of the FARK, in 1960 was appointed Minister of Defense. Meanwhile, Cambodia was admitted as a protocol state member of the US-sponsored SEATO alliance and under his command the FARK became a bastion of American influence on the Sihanouk regime because US military aid constituted 30% of the armed forces' budget until August 1964, when it was renounced by the Cambodian government.
Following his faction's seizure of a large number of seats of the ruling Sangkum party's representation at the National Assembly in the 1966 general elections, Gen. Lon was elected Prime-Minister, thereby locking the state institutions under the firm grip of the military, just as Sihanouk had feared. However, he resigned from the post in 1967 after a car accident, only to return two years when the monarch mounted a renewed purge against leftist dissidents; as a representative of the conservative Khmer who had supported the French rule, Lon Nol never accepted Sihanouk's neutralist policy of non-alignment. Though the Prince's sporadic purges of leftist movements would quench Lon's wrath at the growing communist insurgency, what worried him was Sihanouk's covert deals with North Vietnam and the Viet Cong, which allowed them to establish base-camps on the Cambodian side of the border with South Vietnam and built a massive supply infrastructure. Lon knew that Sihanouk's balancing appeasement of the US from 1968 onwards by allowing B-52 aerial bombings and 'hot pursuit' cross-border raids against NVA/VC base areas within Cambodia would be ineffective in stopping the wider, home-grown insurgency.
One of the measures he was able to undertake was the build-up of a strong anti-communist faction within the FARK's officer corps that would back him should Sihanouk shift again towards the left. On March 17, 1970, while Sihanouk was absent from the country on a state visit to China and the USSR, Lon Nol – with the secret backing of the Central Intelligence Agency and the government of South Vietnam – assumed power when the National Assembly in Phnom Penh unanimously voted the Prince out of office. Lon Nol automatically succeeded the latter as Head of State on August 18, although he claimed that the move was constitutionally legal, it ran afoul of the conservative mentality of the Cambodians, many of whom believed that the Prince ruled through divine favour. To further aggrieve matters, Prince Sihanouk, who had sought refuge in China after being deposed, established a political base in Beijing and entered into an alliance with the Maoist-oriented Khmer Rouge leadership and other leftist opposition groups.
In April 1970 these disparate groups formed the FUNK, an umbrella organization dedicated to the armed overthrow of the pro-western Khmer Republic. Lon Nol had to deal with a number of dissident FARK senior officers whom, though sharing most of his views, felt that the overthrow of Sihanouk had been one step too far. Many of these royalist officers resigned in protest from the armed forces' structure when Gen. Lon proceeded to transform with American help the old FARK into the FANK to accommodate the character of the new Republican regime. By contrast, new recruits were available from the ranks of the far-right Khmer Serei, a US-backed anti-communist guerrilla group led by the hardline Nationalist Son Ngoc Thanh which had fought against Sihanouk's regime during the 1960s and who always viewed him as a communist crony; the measures implemented by Lon Nol's administration included the issue of ultimata demanding North Vietnamese Army and Vietcong units to vacate the bases they had established on Khmer soil, prevented arms shipments bound to the Vietcong from being unloaded at his sea port
Bassac River
The Bassac River is a distributary of the Tonlé Sap and Mekong River. The river starts in Phnom Penh and flows southerly, crossing the border into Vietnam near Châu Đốc. In Vietnam it is known as the Hậu River; the Bassac River is an important transportation corridor between Cambodia and Vietnam, with barges and other craft plying the waters. A city of the same name was once the west-bank capital of the Kingdom of Champasak. USS Satyr, a recommissioned repair ship built for the United States Navy during World War II, served on the Bassac River during the Second Indochina War. Three bridges span the Bassac: the Monivong and Takhmao bridges in Phnom Penh and the Cần Thơ Bridge in Cần Thơ in Vietnam. 8.5 kilometers to prey basak lies an old ancient temple ruins Prasat Prey Basak, destroyed during the Vietnam war due to heavy bombing from the United States military. Prasat Prey Basak Temple was built during the Funan empire during the 3rd centuries; the temple is dated between 1900-2000 years old. It is considered to be the oldest Prasat in Cambodia since it was dated back before Chenla during the Funan era
On November 11, 1960, a failed coup attempt against President Ngô Đình Diệm of South Vietnam was led by Lieutenant Colonel Vương Văn Đông and Colonel Nguyễn Chánh Thi of the Airborne Division of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam. The rebels launched the coup in response to Diệm's autocratic rule and the negative political influence of his brother Ngô Đình Nhu and his sister-in-law Madame Nhu, they bemoaned the politicisation of the military, whereby regime loyalists who were members of the Ngô family's covert Cần Lao Party were promoted ahead of more competent officers who were not insiders. Đông was supported in the conspiracy by his brother-in-law Lieutenant Colonel Nguyen Trieu Hong, whose uncle was a prominent official in a minor opposition party. The main link in the coup was Đông's commanding officer Thi; the coup caught the Ngô family off-guard, but was chaotically executed. The plotters neglected to seal the roads leading into the capital Saigon to seal off loyalist reinforcements, they hesitated after gaining the initiative.
After being trapped inside the Independence Palace, Diệm stalled the coup by holding negotiations and promising reforms, such as the inclusion of military officers in the administration. In the meantime, opposition politicians joined the fray. However, the president's real aim was to buy time for loyalist forces to enter the capital and relieve him; the coup failed when the 5th and 7th Divisions of the ARVN defeated the rebels. More than four hundred people—many of whom were civilian spectators—were killed in the ensuing battle; these included a group of anti-Diệm civilians who charged across the palace walls at Thi's urging and were cut down by loyalist gunfire. Đông and Thi fled to Cambodia, while Diệm berated the United States for a perceived lack of support during the crisis. Afterwards, Diệm ordered a crackdown, imprisoning numerous anti-government critics and former cabinet ministers; those that assisted Diệm were duly promoted. A trial for those implicated in the plot was held in 1963. Seven officers and two civilians were sentenced to death in absentia, while 14 officers and 34 civilians were jailed.
Diệm's regime accused the Americans of sending Central Intelligence Agency members to assist the failed plot. When Diệm was assassinated after a 1963 coup, those jailed after the 1960 revolt were released by the new military junta; the revolt was led by 28-year-old Lieutenant Colonel Vương Văn Đông, a northerner, who had fought with the French Union forces against the Viet Minh during the First Indochina War. Trained at Fort Leavenworth in the United States, Đông was regarded by American military advisers as a brilliant tactician and the brightest military prospect of his generation and he served in the Airborne Division. Back in Vietnam, Đông became discontented with Diệm's arbitrary rule and constant meddling in the internal affairs of the army. Diệm promoted officers on loyalty rather than skill, played senior officers against one another in order to weaken the military leadership and prevent them from challenging his rule. Years after the coup, Đông asserted that his sole objective was to force Diệm to improve the governance of the country.
Đông was clandestinely supported by his brother-in-law Lieutenant Colonel Nguyen Trieu Hong, the director of training at the Joint General Staff School, Hong's uncle Hoang Co Thuy. Thuy was a wealthy Saigon-based lawyer, had been a political activist since World War II, he was the secretary-general of a minority opposition party called the Movement of Struggle for Freedom, which had a small presence in the rubber-stamp National Assembly. Many Army of the Republic of Vietnam officers were members of other anti-communist nationalist groups that were opposed to Diệm, such as the Đại Việt Quốc dân đảng and the Việt Nam Quốc Dân Đảng, which were both established before World War II; the VNQDĐ had run a military academy in Yunnan near the Chinese border with the assistance of their nationalist Chinese counterparts, the Kuomintang. Diệm and his family had crushed all alternative anti-communist nationalists, his politicisation of the army had alienated the servicemen. Officers were promoted on the basis of political allegiance rather than competence, meaning that many VNQDĐ and Đại Việt trained officers were denied such promotions.
They felt that politically minded officers, who joined Diệm's secret Catholic-dominated Cần Lao Party, used to control South Vietnamese society, were rewarded with promotion rather than those most capable. Planning for the coup had gone on with Đông recruiting disgruntled officers; this included Colonel Nguyễn Chánh Thi. In 1955, Thi had fought for Diệm against the Bình Xuyên organised crime syndicate in the Battle for Saigon; this performance so impressed Diệm—a lifelong bachelor—that he thereafter referred to Thi as "my son". However, the Americans who worked with Thi were less impressed; the CIA described Thi as "an opportunist and a man lacking strong convictions". An American military advisor described Thi as "tough and fearless, but dumb". There is some dispute as to. According to some sources, Thi was still an admirer of Diệm and was forced at gunpoint by Đông and his supporters to join the coup at the last minute, having been kept unaware of the plotting. According to this story, Thi's airborne units were moved into position for the coup without his knowledge.
Many months before the coup, Đông had met Diệm's brother and adviser Ngô Đình Nhu regarded as the brains of the regi
U Minh Thượng National Park
U Minh Thượng National Park or National Park of Upper U Minh is a national park in the province of Kiên Giang, Vietnam. It was established according to decision number 11/2002/QĐ-TTg, dated 14 January 2002, signed by Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyễn Tấn Dũng; this decision turned the U Minh Thuong Nature Reserve into U Minh Thuong National Park. The park covers 80.53 km2 with the nearest city being Rạch Giá U Minh Thuong National Park is considered the richest region of the Mekong delta in terms of plant and animal biodiversity. It boasts of over 243 plant species; the park has a rich and varied mammalian population, totaling an impressive 32 species, including hairy-nosed otters and fishing cats. U Minh Thuong National Park is a haven for rare and endangered birds. A total of 187 species of birds has been recorded here, including the oriental darter, spot-billed pelican, black-headed ibis, glossy ibis, greater spotted eagle and Asian golden weaver. There are a total of 39 amphibian species and 34 species of fish in the park.
During the First Indochina War the U Minh Forest was a Viet Minh stronghold. In 1952, 500 French paratroopers dropped into the U Ming forest to attack Viet Minh and were never heard from again. During the Vietnam War it was a Vietcong base area. Officers Humbert Roque Versace and James N. Rowe of the United States Army were captured by the Vietcong during a battle in the U Minh Forest in October 1963. Versace was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor by American Military and Rowe escaped five years later. American politician John Kerry commanded a Swift boat in the area during the Vietnam War, known as the American War in Vietnam. Factsheet on U Minh Thuong National Park YouTube: Footage ARVN Rangers of the South Vietnamese Army patrolling in the U Minh Forest
Army of the Republic of Vietnam
The Army of the Republic of Vietnam known as the South Vietnamese army, were the ground forces of the South Vietnamese military from its inception in 1955 until the Fall of Saigon in 1975. It is estimated to have suffered 1,394,000 casualties during the Vietnam War; the ARVN began as a post-colonial army trained and affiliated with the United States and had engaged in conflict since its inception. Several dramatic changes occurred throughout its lifetime from a'blocking-force' to a more modern conventional force using helicopter deployment in combat. During the U. S. intervention, the role of the ARVN was marginalised to a defensive role with an incomplete modernisation, transformed again most notably following Vietnamization as it was up-geared and reconstructed to fulfil the role of the departing U. S. forces. By 1974, it had become much more effective with foremost counterinsurgency expert and Nixon adviser Robert Thompson noting that Regular Forces were well-trained and second only to U. S. and IDF forces in the free world and with General Creighton Abrams remarking that 70% of units were on par with the U.
S. Army. However, the withdrawal of American forces through Vietnamization meant the armed forces could not fulfil all the aims of the program and had become dependent on U. S. equipment, given it was meant to fulfill the departing role of the United States. At its peak, an estimated 1 in 9 citizens of South Vietnam were enlisted and it had become the fourth-largest army in the world composed of Regular Forces and more voluntary Regional Militias and Village-level militias. Unique in serving a dual military-civilian administrative purpose in direct competition with the Viet Cong political and armed wing, the PLAF; the ARVN had in addition became a component of political power and notably suffered from continual issues of political loyalty appointments, corruption in leadership, factional in-fighting and occasional open conflict between itself. After the fall of Saigon to the North Vietnamese army, the ARVN was dissolved. While some high-ranking officers had fled the country to the United States or elsewhere, thousands of former ARVN officers were sent to reeducation camps by the communist government of the new, unified Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
Five ARVN generals commit suicide on Black April to avoid captured by PAVN/VC. On March 8, 1949, after the Élysée Accords the State of Vietnam was recognized by France as an independent country ruled by the Vietnamese Emperor Bảo Đại, the Vietnamese National Army was soon created; the VNA fought in joint operations with the French Union's French Far East Expeditionary Corps against the Viet Minh forces led by Ho Chi Minh. The VNA fought in a wide range of campaigns including but not limited to the Battle of Nà Sản, Operation Atlas and the Battle of Dien Bien Phu. Benefiting from French assistance, the VNA became a modern army modelled after the Expeditionary Corps, it included infantry, signals, armored cavalry, airforce, navy and a national military academy. By 1953 troopers as well as officers were all Vietnamese, the latter having been trained in Ecoles des Cadres such as Da Lat, including Chief of Staff General Nguyễn Văn Hinh, a French Union airforce veteran. After the 1954 Geneva agreements, French Indochina ceased to exist and by 1956 all French Union troops had withdrawn from Vietnam and Cambodia.
In 1955, by the order of Prime Minister Diệm, the VNA crushed the armed forces of the Bình Xuyên. On October 26, 1955, the military was reorganized by the administration of President Ngô Đình Diệm who formally established the Army of the Republic of Vietnam on December 30, 1955; the air force was known as the Vietnamese Air Force. Early on, the focus of the army was the guerrilla fighters of the Vietnam National Liberation Front, formed to oppose the Diệm administration; the United States, under President John F. Kennedy sent advisors and a great deal of financial support to aid the ARVN in combating the insurgents. A major campaign, developed by Ngô Đình Nhu and resurrected under another name was the "Strategic Hamlet Program", regarded as unsuccessful by Western media because it was "inhumane" to move villagers from the countryside to fortified villages. ARVN leaders and President Diệm were criticized by the foreign press when the troops were used to crush armed anti-government religious groups like the Cao Đài and Hòa Hảo as well as to raid Buddhist temples, which according to Diệm, were harboring NLF guerrillas.
The most notorious of these attacks occurred on the night of August 21, 1963, during the Xá Lợi Pagoda raids conducted by the Special Forces, which caused a death toll estimated to range into the hundreds. In 1963 Ngô Đình Diệm was killed in a coup d'état carried out by ARVN officers and encouraged by American officials such as Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. In the confusion that followed, General Dương Văn Minh took control, but he was only the first in a succession of ARVN generals to assume the presidency of South Vietnam. During these years, the United States began taking more control of the war against the NLF and the role of the ARVN became less and less significant, they were plagued by continuing problems of severe corruption amongst the officer corps. Although the US was critical of the ARVN, it continued to be US-armed and funded. Although the American news media has portrayed the Vietnam War as a American and North Vietnamese conflict, the ARVN carried the brunt of the fight before and after large-scale American involvement, participated in many major operations with American troops.
ARVN troops
I Corps (South Vietnam)
The I Corps Tactical Zone was a corps of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam, the army of the nation state of South Vietnam that existed from 1955 to 1975. It was one of four corps of the ARVN; this was the northernmost region of South Vietnam, bordering North Vietnam. These five provinces are Quảng Trị Province, Thừa Thiên-Huế Province, Quảng Nam Province, Quảng Tín Province, Quảng Ngãi Province; the region included the DMZ area where 3rd Marine Division intelligence estimated the combat strength of NVA and VC forces in January 1968 was 40,943 troops. Among its formations and units were the 1st Division; the I CTZ Military Region 1, was partnered with the U. S. III Marine Expeditionary Force and the XXIV Corps. General Hoàng Xuân Lãm was given responsibility for the I Corps Tactical Zone in 1967, he coordinated the South Vietnamese Operation Lam Sơn 719 offensive which aimed at striking the North Vietnamese logistical corridor known as the Ho Chi Minh trail in southeastern Laos during 1971. Due to his political connections with President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu, he was still serving as I Corps commander when the North Vietnamese launched the Nguyên Huế Offensive in 1972.
Lãm was recalled to Saigon on 2 May 1972 by Thiệu, who relieved him of his command, due to complaints regarding Lãm's fitness and competency as a general. He was succeeded as commander by Ngô Quang Trưởng. 20th Tank Regiment, the first tank regiment in the ARVN, was formed at Quảng Trị in 1971. It was equipped with the M48 Patton. I Corps disintegrated during the 1975 Spring Offensive; the situation for the South Vietnamese in the I Corps Tactical Zone had regained some stability after the defeat of a three-division PAVN push during late 1974. By early the following year, I Corps fielded three infantry divisions, the elite Airborne and Marine Divisions, four Ranger Groups and the 1st Armored Brigade; until mid-March, the North Vietnamese had limited their offensive operations to attempts to cut Highway 1, the main north/south line of communication, between Huế and Da Nang and between Da Nang and Chu Lai. To confront the South Vietnamese, PAVN Brigadier General Lê Trọng Tấn had amassed a force of the crack 2nd, 304th, 324B, 325C, 711th PAVN Divisions and nine independent infantry regiments, three sapper regiments, three armored regiments, twelve anti-aircraft and eight artillery regiments.
At a meeting in Saigon on 13 March President Thiệu was briefed on the military situation by Trưởng and another corps commander. Thiệu laid out his plan for national consolidation; as Trưởng understood it, he was free to redeploy his forces to hold the Da Nang area. Trưởng was shocked to discover, that the Airborne Division was to be removed to III Corps. General Trưởng was recalled to Saigon on 19 March to brief Thiệu on his withdrawal plan; the general had developed two contingency plans: The first was predicated on government control of Highway 1, which would be utilized for two simultaneous withdrawals from Huế and Chu Lai to Da Nang. This was to be only an interim measure, since the forces that withdrew to Huế and Chu Lai would be sea-lifted to Da Nang by the navy; the president stunned the general by announcing that he had misinterpreted his previous orders: The old imperial capital of Huế was not to be abandoned. Making matters worse, Trưởng discovered that his force was to be reduced by the removal of the Airborne Division.
Dougan, David Fulghum, et al. The Fall of the South. Boston: Boston Publishing Company, 1985. Tucker, Spencer C.. Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO. Pp. 526–533. ISBN 1-57607-040-9
Mekong [videos]
The Mekong is a trans-boundary river in Southeast Asia. It is the world's twelfth longest river and the seventh longest in Asia. Its estimated length is 4,350 km, and it drains an area of 795,000 km2, discharging 475 km3 of water annually. — From the Tibetan …
Mekong River, Luang Prabang, Laos
The Mekong from Phou si
The confluence of the Mekong and the Nam Ou Rivers, Laos
Fish Farming on Mekong branch, Song Tien, Đồng Tháp Province, Vietnam
U Minh Thượng National Park [videos]
U Minh Thượng National Park or National Park of Upper U Minh is a national park in the province of Kiên Giang, Vietnam. — Establishment — It was established according to decision number 11/2002/QĐ-TTg, dated 14 January 2002, signed by then …
Image: Otter from Cambodia
Image: Fishing Cat (Prionailurus viverrinus) 2
Image: Oriental Darter (Anhinga melanogaster) Flickr Lip Kee
Sa Đéc [videos]
Sa Đéc is a provincial city in Đồng Tháp Province in the Mekong Delta of southern Vietnam. It is a river port and agricultural and industrial trading center, — The Sa Dec economic zone consists of Chau Thanh, Lai Vung and Lap Vo districts. — As of January 2018, the city has a …
Sa Đéc Industrial zone
Sa Đéc market
Sa Đéc Flower Village
Cambodian Campaign [videos]
The Cambodian Campaign was a series of military operations conducted in eastern Cambodia during 1970 by the United States and the Republic of Vietnam as an extension of the Vietnam War and the Cambodian Civil War …
Meeting in Beijing: Mao Zedong (l), Prince Sihanouk (c), and Liu Shaoqi (r)
On 30 April 1970, President Nixon announced the attack into Cambodia. In a televised address to the nation, he justified it as a necessary response to North Vietnamese aggression
Cambodian civilians bag up captured North Vietnamese rice.
Bảy Núi [videos]
Bảy Núi, also known by the Sino-Vietnamese version Thất Sơn, is a range of small mountains located in the Tri Tôn and Tịnh Biên districts in Vietnam's An Giang Province, very close to the Cambodian border. — The 710-metre Thiên Cấm …
Núi Cấm
Image: Núi ở An Giang
Image: Đường lên núi Cấm
Đồng Tháp Mười [videos]
Đồng Tháp Mười is an inland wetland in Vietnam's Mekong Delta. Most of the wetlands are within Long An Province and Đồng Tháp Province. — Physical characteristics — Đồng Tháp Mười is a "back swamp" forming a large inundated depression of highly acidic soil …
Đồng Tháp Mười from above
Lotus in Đồng Tháp Mười
1960 South Vietnamese coup attempt [videos]
On November 11, 1960, a failed coup attempt against President Ngô Đình Diệm of South Vietnam was led by Lieutenant Colonel Vương Văn Đông and Colonel Nguyễn Chánh Thi of the Airborne Division of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam. — The rebels launched the coup in response to Diệm's …
The rebels demanded the removal of First Lady Madame Nhu (pictured left, with Lyndon Johnson).
President Ngô Đình Diệm of South Vietnam
Đồng Tâm Base Camp [videos]
Đồng Tâm Base Camp is a former U.S. Army and Navy and Army of the Republic of Vietnam base west of Mỹ Tho in the Mekong Delta, southern Vietnam. — History — 1966–72 — Đồng Tâm Base Camp was established on the banks of the Mekong 7 km west of Mỹ …
USS Hickman County (LST-825) at the ramp at Dong Tam, South Vietnam, circa 1969
Image: Dong Tam Base Camp, circa 1969
Cà Mau Peninsula [videos]
Cà Mau Peninsula makes up the southern tip of Vietnam. It is in Cà Mau Province, and lies between the Gulf of Thailand to the west and the South China Sea to the east. — Cà Mau is a triangular stretch of land, with a maximum length of 130 miles and average height of seven …
Fishing nets rigged in the waterways of the Cà Mau Peninsula
Cà Mau Province
Central Office for South Vietnam [videos]
Central Office for South Vietnam, officially known as the Central Executive Committee of the People's Revolutionary Party from 1962 until its dissolution in 1976, was the American term for the North Vietnamese political and …
Nguyễn Chí Thanh, the leading strategist and military commander of the Viet Cong. He would die of a heart-attack in 1967 while reporting on the war situation to Hanoi.
Organisation chart of the Viet Cong, created from US Department of Engineers records.
Khmer National Armed Forces [videos]
The Khmer National Armed Forces, often abbreviated to FANK, were the official armed defense forces of the Khmer Republic, a short-lived state that existed from 1970 to 1975, known today as Cambodia. The FANK was the successor of the Royal Khmer Armed …
General Lon Nol, President of the Khmer Republic.
Brigadier General Thach Reng
Corps [videos]
Corps is a term used for several different kinds of organisation. — Within military terminology a corps may be: — an operational formation, sometimes known as a field corps, which consists of two or more divisions, such as the Corps d'armée …
The XVIII Airborne Corps command group returns home from Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2009
Ngô Quang Trưởng [videos]
Ngô Quang Trưởng was an officer in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam. Trưởng gained his commission in the Vietnamese National Army in 1954 and moved up the ranks over the next decade, mostly in the Airborne Brigade. In 1966, Trưởng commanded a division …
Image: Ngo Quang Truong ARHQ
Bassac River [videos]
The Bassac River is a distributary of the Tonlé Sap and Mekong River. The river starts in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, and flows southerly, crossing the border into Vietnam near Châu Đốc. — In Vietnam it is known as the Hậu River. — The …
The wide Bassac River near Cần Thơ in the heart of the Mekong Delta
7th Division (South Vietnam) [videos]
The Seventh Division was part of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam, the army of the nation state of South Vietnam that existed from 1955 to 1975. It was part of the IV Corps, which oversaw the Mekong Delta region of the country. — History — The Seventh Division was based in Mỹ Tho, and …
Image: Flag of the South Vietnamese Army
Bạc Liêu (city) [videos]
Bạc Liêu is a provincial city and capital of the Bạc Liêu Province in the Mekong Delta region in southern Vietnam. It is a medium-sized town with a population of approximately 150,000. The old name of the city is Vĩnh Lợi. — History — The name Bạc Liêu is based …
Image: Bạc Liêu skyline
Bến Tre Province [videos]
Bến Tre is a province of Vietnam. It is one of the country's southern provinces, being situated in the Mekong Delta. — Administrative divisions — Bến Tre is subdivided into 9 district-level sub-divisions: — 8 districts: — 1 provincial city: — Bến Tre They are further subdivided into …
Bến Tre countryside around Cái Mon
Public domain [videos]
The public domain consists of all the creative works to which no exclusive intellectual property rights apply. Those rights may have expired, been forfeited, expressly waived, or may be inapplicable.The works of William Shakespeare and Beethoven, and most early silent films, are in the public …
Newton's own copy of his Principia, with hand-written corrections for the second edition
Republic of Vietnam Military Forces [videos]
The Republic of Vietnam Military Forces, were the official armed defense forces of South Vietnam, a state that existed from 1955 to 1975 in the southern half of what is now Vietnam. The RVNMF was responsible for the defense of South Vietnam …
Administrative divisions and military regions of South Vietnam in June 1967.
II Corps (South Vietnam) [videos]
The II Corps was a corps of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam, the army of the nation state of South Vietnam that existed from 1955 to 1975. It was one of four corps in the ARVN, and it oversaw the region of the central highlands region, north of the capital …
U.S. advisor (probably a MACV officer) confers with II Corps' 3rd Cav commander in front of an M113 APC.
Jamie Foxx [videos]
Eric Marlon Bishop, known professionally as Jamie Foxx, is an American actor, singer, songwriter, record producer, and comedian. For his portrayal of Ray Charles in the 2004 biographical film Ray, he won an Academy Award for Best Actor, BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a …
Foxx at the 2013 San Diego Comic-Con International promoting The Amazing Spider-Man 2
Foxx promoting Stealth in July 2005.
Foxx's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
Foxx in 2005
Cliffs of Moher [videos]
The Cliffs of Moher are sea cliffs located at the southwestern edge of the Burren region in County Clare, Ireland. They run for about 14 kilometres. At their southern end, they rise 120 metres above the Atlantic Ocean at Hag's Head, and, eight kilometres to …
Looking north towards O'Brien's Tower
A 19th-century Photochrom postcard of the cliffs, with Leacmayornagneeve rock in the foreground
Cliffs of Moher Cruise
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis [videos]
Jacqueline Lee Kennedy Onassis was an American socialite and First Lady of the United States during the presidency of John F. Kennedy from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963. — Bouvier was born in Southampton, New York, to Wall Street …
Six-year-old Bouvier in 1935
Senator John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy on their wedding day, September 12, 1953
Jacqueline Kennedy standing over her husband, John F. Kennedy, after his spinal surgery, December 1954
Jacqueline with her husband as he campaigns for the presidency in Appleton, Wisconsin, March 1960
Matterhorn [videos]
The Matterhorn is a mountain of the Alps, straddling the main watershed and border between Switzerland and Italy. It is a large, near-symmetrical pyramidal peak in the extended Monte Rosa area of the …
View on the south and east faces and the area of the Theodul Pass between Italy (left) and Switzerland (right)
Matterhorn Panorama from Gornergrat
Banner cloud formation on the Matterhorn
View from the summit towards Monte Rosa with the valleys of Mattertal (left) and Valtournenche (right)
Royal Academy of Arts [videos]
The Royal Academy of Arts is an art institution based in Burlington House on Piccadilly in London. It has a unique position as an independent, privately funded institution led by eminent artists and architects. Its purpose is to promote the creation, enjoyment and appreciation of the visual …
A 19th century illustration of the Royal Academy
Satirical drawing of Sir William Chambers, one of the founders, trying to slay the 8-headed hydra of the Incorporated Society of Artists
Study for Henry Singleton's painting The Royal Academicians assembled in their council chamber to adjudge the Medals to the successful students in Painting, Sculpture, Architecture and Drawing, which hangs in the Royal Academy. Ca. 1793.
An early RA Summer Exhibition at the Academy's original home in Somerset House
As (Roman coin) [videos]
The as, occasionally assarius was a bronze, and later copper, coin used during the Roman Republic and Roman Empire. — Republican era coinage — The Romans replaced the usage of Greek coins, first by bronze ingots, then by …
An etching of a Roman Republican as
Nero as
Circa 240–225 BC. Æ Aes grave As


Actually this is mainly photos of the Massey Visiting Artist apartment where I am working during the day, for the curious. (I am always super-nosey about where people work and what residencies are like, so I'm sharing this stuff for those that share my curiousity…) I really enjoyed Sarah Laing's comics about her residency in 2010. I think perhaps something common to residencies, is that they are cold. The apartment is FREEZING. Thank goodness for tea – the instant hand-warmer.
Here is the view from the living room – I can see the steeple of All Saint's Church from the sofa where I sit to work.
And out of the bathroom window I can see the steeple again, reflected in a big blue skyscraper.
Teacups on the kitchen shelf…I wonder which visiting artist contributed these? Johanna Aitchison? Vivienne Plumb? Jennifer Compton?
Here is the coffee table I am using as a desk….
Here's what I got out from the Massey Library this week. So many yummy books!
Here is where I sit to read and write….usually covered in blankets because of the cold.
Wonderfully retro dressing table in the bedroom I'm not using.
Finally, me. Still slightly in shock (and extremely grateful) that I get to come here every day and write for three whole months! Lucky, lucky life.
I am so excited to think of you in this space, reading, reclining, writing, sipping. And I know you will make the very most of the opportunity. And I look forward to seeing the results, because they will be spectacular. Baby. Spectacular.
Slightly off topic – your hair is looking WONDERFUL. Makes me want to cut mine shorter.. hmm..
Fabulous! I love the stack of yummy library books.
My residency was also very cold (an unlined basement studio) and then during the summer, it was ridiculously hot. Small price to pay for the luxury of being paid to do whatever you want. Have fun!


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Evanovich Teams With Cannell to Pen Adventure Series
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November 9 – November 16, 2006 Edition
Evanovich Teams
With Cannell to Pen
NEW YORK, NY/11/8/06—Bestselling authors Janet Evanovich and Stephen J. Cannell have teamed up to write a new adventure series of novels set in Orange County. Warner Books will publish the series, releasing the first title, No Chance, in fall 2007. The story follows former Special Forces operative Benjamin Cannon. Warner's paperbacks editor-in-chief Beth De Guzman will edit the series.
Evanovich, famous for her Stephanie Plum series, has written more than 15 novels, most of which have landed on the New York Times Bestseller list. She has also written 12 romance novels under the name Steffie Hall, and has co-authored six other books with Charlotte Hughes.
Stephen J. Cannell is the bestselling author of eleven novels, including the critically acclaimed Shane Scully series, which includes Cold Hit, Vertical Coffin, Hollywood Tough, The Viking Funeral, The Tin Collectors and the newest installment, WHITE SISTER, available in bookstores and online NOW. In addition, Cannell is the author of Runaway Heart, The Devil's Workshop, Riding the Snake, King Con, Final Victim, and The Plan. A feature film of King Con is currently in development. The motion picture rights to Riding the Snake have been optioned, as well as the rights to his unpublished manuscript, Love At First Sight.
An Emmy award-winning writer/producer and Chairman of Cannell Studios, Cannell overcame severe dyslexia to become one of television's most prolific writers. In a highly successful career that spans three decades, he has created or co-created more than 40 shows, of which he has scripted more than 450 episodes and produced or executive produced more than 1,500 episodes. His hits include The Rockford Files, Greatest American Hero, The A-Team, Hunter, Riptide, Hardcastle & McCormick, 21 Jump Street, Wiseguy, The Commish, Profit, and the hit syndicated shows, Renegade and Silk Stalkings.
Robert Gottlieb of Trident Media represented the two authors as the agent for the new series.
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Second Ave is an Adult fiction novel set during a decade in the surly 1970s in a grunty little neighbourhood in Auckland.
Dad reckons he's living in paradise cause he's moved the family to Second Ave where the Tip Top Bread Factory and the Kiwi Bacon are on his doorstep and the TAB is a heart- beat away.
10 year-old Ella is stuck playing second 'mama' to her siblings and heaven is anywhere beyond her letterbox.
This is her story and her prayer to God to cut the cord that binds her to all creatures great and small at Second Ave.
Second Ave is a childhood memoir that focuses on my sister Ella growing up fast in the 1970s and coming to terms with the transient nature of transitioning from child to teen-ager. It's about the experiences of second-generation Pacific Island sisters being raised by Samoan migrants in the land of Milk and Honey.
The exegesis will look at the journey of the sisters in negotiating the sacred space of relationships and explore the complexities of these connections through a unique cultural prism.


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In the summer of 2012, a food crisis struck West Africa in a region called the Sahel. Particularly hard-hit was Niger, a country already languishing near the bottom of the United Nations Human Development Index. If the international community did not intervene, the food crisis threatened to escalate into a famine. Salt + Light Television's Kris Dmytrenko travelled to Niger to learn about the crisis. Why was it happening? What were Nigeriens doing about it? And how was the world trying to help?
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Rosary - Glorious Mysteries
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If human beings are superior to other species – not better, but unique in our ability to care for Creation, what does it mean when we say that we are to respect Creation?
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Magento 2.3 introduces several major changes that may affect the correct functionality of already released external modules. The purpose of this document is to highlight the changes between Magento 2.2 and 2.3.
\Magento\Store\Api\StoreResolverInterface has been deprecated in favor of the \Magento\Store\Model\StoreManagerInterface.
When resolving for a store frontend, use \Magento\Store\Model\StoreManagerInterface::getStore.
The following example shows the diff in Magento\Catalog\Model\ResourceModel\Product\StatusBaseSelectProcessor class after replacing the deprecated method.
With the release of Magento 2.3 we are releasing a new version of Zend Framework 1.
Action: Affected modules and classes were removed.
Reason: They are no longer used in Magento or Marketplace extensions, are expensive and time-intensive to maintain, and can cause potential security risks if not maintained properly.
Verify whether the needed functionality exists natively in the Magento framework.
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Look for the needed functionality in existing Symfony components or Zend modules.
In place of the now removed Zend_Serializer module you can use Magento\Framework\Serialize\Serializer\Serialize, which facilitates backward-compatibility.
Affected modules: Search, CatalogSearch, AdvancedSearch, Elasticsearch.
Action: Affected components were updated to use single interface. The interface is \Magento\Framework\Search\EngineResolverInterface. Its implementation is \Magento\Search\Model\EngineResolver.
Reason: To resolve a search engine currently set in System Configuration.
The interface provides method getCurrentSearchEngine() that returns a string with the current search engine identifier.
The implementation introduces a fallback to a default search engine mysql if the current search engine (set in the System Configuration) doesn't exist.
Classes affected by this modification have backward incompatible changes in their constructor arguments.
The Banner module now uses a UI Component form and no longer uses the banner_edit_tab_properties_after_prepare_form event in Magento/Banner/Block/Adminhtml/Banner/Edit/Tab/Properties.php.
The Magento/Banner/Block/Adminhtml/Banner/Edit/Tab/Content.php class is no longer used. The adminhtml_banner_edit_tab_content_before_prepare_form that was used in this class is now used in the data provider for the banner form.
The Banner content type has been renamed to Dynamic Block.
The Banner Rotator widget has been renamed to Dynamic Blocks Rotator.