Word: guerilla
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...Vietnam, the U.S. must pursue a clear-and-hold policy economically. Taking tiny areas of land, it should institute land reform and education programs. This will not win a war quickly but over a decade Southeast Asia could be made invulnerable to guerilla war. Even if the policy does not win in Vietnam, it will have served a purpose rewarding from a humane point of view and necessary from a military point of view. The U.S. should protect the government from coups and seal the border by air attacks far from the China border and away from civilians; it must...
...article on Vietnam by Walter L. Coleman and L. Michael Robinson documented the dismal story of American involvement in South Vietnam. A careful reading of the New York Times establishes the indigenous character of the Viet Cong guerilla movement; it also establishes the repressive and reactionary character of the South Vietnamese regimes that we have supported over the past ten years...
...Chinese strategy of extending communism by force relies on the belief that a guerilla movement can win the sympathy of the majority of the people in a country. Our government has been trying very hard to prove this strategy correct in South Vietnam. If we wish to disprove this strategy, we should stop supporting regimes which, by their repressive character, ensure victory for guerilla movements...
...guerilla war cannot be won without a popular base. The repressive governments of the French and the Japanese had created the conditions for revolt. The people who led the revolution were Vietnamese; the people who constituted the base of the movement were the Vietnamese peasantry...
...peasantry, they could only have found local support among the disinherited landlords and the remnants of the pre-war colonial administration. Attempts to re-establish the landlords failed, however, and the French were forced to fight a long and increasingly hopeless war against the Viet Minh, the peasant guerilla forces...