Word: strength
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bassetti will discuss the unique experience of women at the College. "In many ways we're not on the same plane as men at Harvard," she said. "We should face the differences and draw strength from them...
...history--drastically and brutally speeded up by the American impact--may pass the Vietcong by. Societies are susceptible to revolution only at particular stages in their development. At the moment, the rates of urbanization and of modernization in the secure rural areas exceed the rate of increase of Vietcong strength...
...neither in the quest for conventional military victory nor in the esoteric doctrines and gimmicks of counter-insurgency warfare. It is instead forced-draft urbanization and modernization which rapidly brings the country in question out of the phase in which a rural revolutionary movement can hope to generate sufficient strength to come to power...
...properly perceived and accepted, however, they may provide some basis for accommodation and an eventual compromise settlement." The presumption of what "will not please the extremists" belongs to pop psychology and is a rhetorical thrust which scholars can evaluate in light of the above false evaluation of Vietcong strength, for instance. Who are the "extremists," by the way? Huntington does not specify. He also states...
...Spokesmen for the Administration, on the other hand, have in the past underrated the strength of the Vietcong and have ascribed to the Saigon Government a popularity which has as little basis in fact as that which the critics attributed to the NLF... The misplaced moralism of the critics has thus confronted the unwarranted optimism of the advocates...