从这一期开始,本刊增設《美国記者笔下的南越战場》专栏。随着侵越战爭从不断失敗走向彻底失敗,作为美国統治集团喉舌的美国报章杂志,充滿着绝望的呻吟、无穷的叹息,活活地勾画出美国紙老虎的原形。其中不乏值得一讀的材料,我們将适当轉載,以饗讀者。下面摘录刊登的两篇文章,系选自馬耳可姆·布朗所著《战爭新面貌》一书的第二章和第三章。本书的另外一些章节,我們将陆續选登。这两篇文章无可奈何地供认、拥有最現代化武器的美帝国主义者,打不嬴只有弓弩、尖桩、大刀、手榴弹的南越人民武装。它以无数事实从反面证明了这样一条光輝的真理:历來都是人民的原始武器战胜反革命的先进武器。打仗,武器也要,人也要。但是武器总是要靠人去制造的、要靠人去使用的。人不勇敢以至毫无斗志,武器就不能充分发揮作用,所以战爭的胜利还是要靠人。人的觉悟、勇敢和牺牲精神,是决定性的因素,是战爭胜利的关鍵。美国精心設計的M-113装甲車陷在南越的稻田里无所作为,成为累贅的废物;南越人民土制的武器却能致敌于死命,发揮无穷无尽的威力,奥秘就在于此。作者感叹美国在南越打的是一場“新型的战爭”,这場战爭具有新的面貌,美国“显然可能輸掉这場战爭”。对所謂“新型战爭”或战爭的新面貌,作者用了許多笔墨也說不清楚,对付的办法多方探索也寻找不出。其实,“新型战争”者,人民战爭也。美帝国主义定将埋葬在南越人民战爭的海洋里,根据布朗所提供的材料,人們自然会得出这样的结論。编者 Starting from this period, the magazine has added a column entitled “South Vietnam Battlefield by US Journalists.” As the war of aggression turned from failure to failure, the U.S. newspaper and magazines, the mouthpiece of the ruling circles of the United States, filled with a moan of despair and endless sighs, vividly delineating the prototype of the American paper tiger. Many of them are worth reading the material, we will properly reproduced in order to readers. The two excerpts from the following excerpts from chapters two and three of the book New Faces of War by Mark McCullough. In other chapters of this book, we will select one after another. These two articles have no alternative but to confess that the United States imperialists who possess the most modern weapons are not armed only by the people of South Vietnam with only crossbow, picket, sword and grenade. On the contrary, it proves, with innumerable facts, such a brilliant truth that it has always been the people’s original weapon that beats the counter-revolutionary advanced weapon. War, weapons, but also people. However, weapons are always manufactured by people and depend on people for their use. People are not brave and even without fighting spirit, weapons can not fully play their role, so the victory of the war or rely on people. Human consciousness, courage and sacrifice are the decisive factors and the key to victory in the war. The well-designed M-113 armored car in the United States, trapped in the rice fields of South Vietnam, has become nothing but a cumbersome waste. The mystery lies in the endless power of the indigenous weapons of South Vietnam, which are capable of causing enemies to die in the enemy’s will. The author laments that the United States was playing “a new type of war” in South Vietnam and this war has a new appearance. The United States “apparently may lose this war.” To the new appearance of the so-called “new war” or war, the author also uses lots of ink and ink to make it unclear and can not find ways to deal with it in various ways. In fact, “new war” people’s war also. US imperialism is bound to be buried in the sea of ​​the South Vietnam People’s War. Based on the materials provided by Brown, it will naturally come to such conclusion. editor