Time and Limited Success as Enemies of the Vietcong

Abstract

A commonly held view about the war in Vietnam is that the longer the conflict continues without major progress for the US-GVN forces, the more hopeless the situation will become for the cumbersome military machinery of the foreign protectors. Under some circumstances this might conceivably be the effect; but it is worth speculating a bit on the way time itself might work to seriously undermine the essential political nexus of the Vietcong movement. Our interest then is not with the impact of military pressures on the military components of the Vietcong, but rather with the possible effects that several political-psychological trends may have on the morale and competence of the total organization.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1967
Accession Number
AD0660099

Entities

People

  • Constantine Menges
  • Victoria Pohle

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Communism
  • Communists
  • Corporations
  • Doctrine
  • Education
  • Governments
  • Insurgency
  • Living Standards
  • Materials
  • Rural Areas
  • Security
  • Standards
  • Threats

Readers

  • Library and Information Science/ Studies, Southeast Asia Studies, Bibliography of Vietnam and Lao Studies.
  • Political Violence and Terrorism Studies.
  • Systems Analysis and Design