Within minutes, we spotted the first "bug", peering out from an outcropping of coral, waving his long antennae at us.

BBC: Lobster diving in the Abacos

When I arrived not long ago, I encountered a figure in a rotund cartoon-dog suit, waving strenuously in the heat.

NEWYORKER: The God of Gamblers

These are some of the code-names from long ago of the defended hill outposts and paratroop drop-zones set in the waving elephant grass of the Indochinese highlands at Dien Bien Phu.

ECONOMIST: The war in Indochina