Re: Iraqi Village Disappears....Where did the People Go?
The problem was, in Vietnam, that the Diem and Thieu administrations used terror to get the people to cooperate. As did the United States. After all, we dropped more bombs than were dropped in prior history on South Vietnam, the place we were supposed to be defending; we destroyed villages in order to "save" them. Not a great strategy for winning hearts and minds.
Jeffrey Race's book War Comes to Long An goes a long way toward explaining why the Communists won in Vietnam. It wasn't because of terror. At least not theirs.
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