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...book Vietnam: Between Two Truces, Jean Lacouture pointed out that in the mid-1950's after Hanoi had withdrawn its troops and had agreed to end the insurrection by the southern Vietminh, the regime of Ngo Dinh Diem took drastic measures...
...case. When the South Vietnamese have done well against main-force units, American air support has been crucial. When they have floundered, the problem has been that perennial ARVN soft spot, poor leadership. U.S. military men give high marks to a number of top officers, among them General Ngo Quang Truong, commander of IV Corps, and Major General Nguyen Vinh Nghi, whose 21st Division cleared the treacherous U Minh forest in the Mekong Delta in a tough but little-noted operation last year. Even so, most U.S. advisers below the rank of major speak of their Vietnamese counterparts with condescension...
...tanks, toward South Viet Nam's weak Military Region II (the Central Highlands), where the main Communist thrust is expected. Already, three North Vietnamese regiments are grouped in Binh Dinh province, which is rated as the least secure of the country's 44 provinces. There General Ngo Dzu, the area commander, expects the Communists to attempt "popular uprisings" in the style...
Chomsky joined Cynthia Frederick, of the Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars, and Ngo Vinh Long, graduate student in Far Eastern History and Languages in a panel discussion held at MIT last night on the subject "Which Way Viet...
Pretty intricate issues. Ulam ignores them. By studying "good intentions" in a vacuum, he misses the drift of American foreign policy. His "analysis" of Vietnam is typically shallow and absurd. Contradicting the consensus of past and present critics (including such men as President Eisenhower). Ulam contends that Ngo Dinh Diem would have won had elections been held in 1956. "It is a testimony not so much to his undemocratic propensities as to his political clumsiness, one should think, that Diem did not insist on having elections," he writes. What evidence has he for this astonishing conclusion? "The partition of Vietnam...