Viet Cong Repression and its Implications for the Future

Abstract

In the conduct of their fundamental strategy of revolutionary warfare, the Vietnamese Communists employ many and diverse instruments, both political and military. Designed to be mutually supporting, these are each focused on but one end: the seizure of political power in the South. The present study deals with one of the major instruments of this strategy, the systematic use of a variety of measures collectively called 'repression,' by which the Communists seek to eliminate, neutralize, and 'reform' their known enemies in the Government of South Vietnam as well as others whom they suspect of being hostile or unsympathetic to their movement. One aim of this Report is to provide a comprehensive account of both the Communist practice of repression in the South and the doctrine supporting it, as they are revealed in the enemy's own documents. A second purpose is to examine some of the implications of these repressive activities and theories for the denouement of the Vietnamese war.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1970
Accession Number
AD0870240

Entities

People

  • Stephen T. Hosmer

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Administrative Personnel
  • Attrition
  • Employment
  • Ethnic Groups
  • Governments
  • Military Science
  • Minority Groups
  • National Governments
  • Organizational Structure
  • Personnel Management
  • Prisoners Of War
  • Psychological Warfare
  • Security Personnel
  • Societies
  • Surveillance
  • Terrorists
  • Urban Areas

Readers

  • East Asian Political and Security Studies within the Soviet Union
  • Military Science
  • Political Violence and Terrorism Studies.