Isolate and Discuss the Rhetorical Devices That Appear in the Following

Isolate and discuss the rhetorical devices that appear in the following passage:
"Early in the third phase of the Vietnam War the U.S.command recognized that the term 'search and destroy' had unfortunately become associated with 'aimless searches in the jungle and the destruction of property.' In April 1968 General Westmoreland therefore directed that the use of the term be discontinued.Operations thereafter were defined and discussed in basic military terms which described the type of operation,for example,reconnaissance in force."
-Lieutenant General John H.Hay,Jr. ,Vietnam Studies