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U.S. advisors in Tay Ninh Province first broached the idea of defoliating the Boi Loi Woods in early October 1964, and a formal request from Vietnamese officials reached Saigon on December 3, 1964.

Operation Ranch Hand Buckingham, William A. 1982

Agent Orange was the code name of a herbicide developed for the military to prohibit enemy concealment in dense terrain by defoliating trees and shrubbery where the enemy could hide.

Agenge Orange Study R.A. West 2010

Over the years, he refined his ideas to include defoliating the forests of Vietnam and Laos with "low-yield atomic weapons."

The Nuclear Option Ken Kurson 2011

Supply warriors might have a better argument if the billions of dollars spent defoliating the Colombian jungle, chasing fast boats and shooting down airplanes for the past four decades had reduced drug use.

The War on Drugs Is Doomed Mary Anastasia O'Grady 2010

Supply warriors might have a better argument if the billions of dollars spent defoliating the Colombian jungle, chasing fast boats and shooting down airplanes for the past four decades had reduced drug use.

The War on Drugs Is Doomed Mary Anastasia O'Grady 2010

The Colorado potato beetle is a bane, and can quickly build in numbers to do real defoliating damage.

Groundwork: Spud time 2010

Supply warriors might have a better argument if the billions of dollars spent defoliating the Colombian jungle, chasing fast boats and shooting down airplanes for the past four decades had reduced drug use.

The War on Drugs Is Doomed Mary Anastasia O'Grady 2010

By being relentlessly reliant on a cold war black-ops kind of mentality when it comes to foreign affairs (deposing governments, installing kangaroo juntas, assassinating, defoliating, backstabbiating, etc.) and then adding a generous dollop of corporate missionary position myopia, you get a conveyor belt of cuddly little jihadists intent on making life for America as miserable as America made for them.

Steven Weber: 'Night, Court 2010

The direct effects of pollutants on trees are compounded by the effects of diseases and defoliating arthropods, and by interactions between all three.

Human impacts on the biodiversity of the Arctic 2009

The effects of global warming in the region include ablation of mountain glaciers, altitudinal advances in the treeline, increases in magnitude of defoliating insect outbreaks, and, possibly, a decline in the frequency and magnitude of small mammal population cycles (see Chapter 7).

Climate change and terrestrial wildlife management in the Fennoscandian North 2009