Bureaucracy Does Its Thing: Institutional Constraints on U.S.-GVN Performance in Vietnam

Abstract

The report is one of several studies on the organization and management of counterinsurgency responses in Southeast Asia funded by the Advanced Research Projects Agency in an effort to learn what practical lessons they can teach. Four major real-life-cases--Malaya, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam--have been analyzed. It was considered that such lessons would be of particular value to the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the military services, and other Defense Department agencies concerned with planning, service education and training, and military assistance and advice.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1972
Accession Number
AD0770405

Entities

People

  • R. W. Komer

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Business Administration
  • Combat Areas
  • Contingency Operations (Military)
  • Department Of State
  • Employment
  • Interagency Coordination
  • Management Personnel
  • Military History
  • Military Organizations
  • Military Science
  • National Politics
  • National Security
  • Organizational Structure
  • Personnel Management
  • Public Policy
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Library and Information Science/ Studies, Southeast Asia Studies, Bibliography of Vietnam and Lao Studies.
  • Military and Counterinsurgency Studies.