The bad practices include an excessive reliance on search-and-destroy missions, the employment of punitive and repressive measures, and an insensitivity to civilian casualties.

那些烂措施包括过度依赖搜索-摧毁式的任务、实行报复性行动、对当地伤亡人员的漠不关心。

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While on a search-and-destroy patrol, near the village Di an, we were ambushed on a jungle trail by a small band of Vietcong guerillas.

结果，我们在迪安村附近进行扫荡性巡逻时，在一条丛林小路上被一支越共游击小分队伏击。

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In the wake of a surprise attack by Filipino revolutionaries on American troops in the town of Balangiga, which had killed forty-eight of seventy-four members of an American Army company, Waller and his forces were deployed on a search-and-destroy mission across the island.

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