A Look at the VC Cadres: Dinhtuong Province, 1965-1966
Abstract
Developments in South Vietnam's Dinh Tuong Province in 1965, according to the authors' analysis of interviews with personnel formerly in the VC or under its control, reveal important vulnerabilities in the structure and functioning of the VC cadre system. The VC movement has raised its demands on the population for manpower and economic resources; the GVN has maintained military pressure on its opponent and has held control of the centers of population. It has deprived the VC of important manpower and economic resources through its programs for refugees and defectors. At the same time, the village VC cadre finds himself confronted with (1) a conflict of loyalty to the VC with loyalty to his fellow villagers; (2) increased isolation from the villagers, who in many places throughout the province are withholding cooperation and in some instances manifesting overt hostility toward the VC cadres as representatives of a system that makes increased demands of them while postponing the promised time of victory; and (3) instances of favoritism, factionalism, and occasionally corruption among the cadres themselves.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 01, 1967
- Accession Number
- ADA032419
Entities
People
- C. A. H. Thomson
- D. W. Elliott
Organizations
- RAND Corporation