Complex sentence: Westmoreland planned to use the US 173rd Airborne Brigade to keep the Viet Cong off balance and to target their base areas, and consequently a search-and-destroy operation codenamed Operation Hump was planned.
Split into simpler sentences: Westmoreland planned to use the US 173rd Airborne Brigade to keep the Viet Cong off balance and to target their base areas. Consequently a search-and-destroy operation codenamed Operation Hump was planned.