Word: cong
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Both Hanoi and Washington may be at least partially paralyzed by that view. In a captured Communist directive released last month by the U.S., the Viet Cong command told its men that "only when, we have successfully accomplished the general offensive and general uprising will the negotiations demonstrate their significance, which consists of creating conditions for the enemy to accept final defeat and withdraw in an 'honorable' manner." In the U.S., government policy planners have done hardly any staff work on the actual nuts-and-bolts details of a settlement cease-fire arrangements, means of inspection for troop...
...North Vietnamese policy are likely to survive a genuine settlement. Furthermore, the nature of the U.S. commitment in Southeast Asia has undergone considerable change, as French Political Scientist Raymond Aron has astutely pointed out. Initially, the issue in Viet Nam was blunt, says Aron: "Either the Viet Cong will rule in Saigon tomorrow or they won't." But, he adds, "Fortunately, diplomacy can, under certain circumstances, outwit logic." As the war has progressed, the struggle has created a fresh issue partly superseding the old one. The primary issue in Paris today is not who will eventually rule in South...
What the U.S. seeks to demonstrate in Viet Nam is that armed aggression cannot be permitted to succeed, and it is still possible to imagine a settlement that accomplishes at least that much. The Viet Cong might lay down their arms, for example, compete with ballots rather than bullets, and eventually take over South Viet Nam by democratic means. The U.S. would not like that, but it could live with it because it would not represent a defeat for the U.S. stand against armed aggression or a victory for the Maoist doctrine of wars of liberation...
...like the oft-violated Jet truces, it would provide no assurance against local violence or massive Communist resupply and buildup in contested areas. Some allied military men nonetheless favor the idea, arguing that it would provide an ideal opportunity for the forces freed from combat to root out Viet Cong political agents in rural areas. The Viet Cong, of course, might see exactly the same opportunity to clean out government representatives...
...Brookings Institution. His scheme calls for a cease-fire only after thorough negotiations have settled all the ground rules of deescalation. The sequence would then be a ceasefire, the withdrawal of all external forces, both allied and North Vietnamese, and the substantial demobilization of Viet Cong and South Vietnamese army forces. The process, he believes, would require at least two years. Overseeing it would be an international peace-keeping force of at least 30,000 men, including Communist elements from Eastern Europe, headed by a commander in chief acceptable to both the U.S. and Russia...