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According to some specialists, a resumption of the bombing could be to the political benefit of North Vietnam as it would stiffen the siege mentality of North Vietnam's people and increase world and U. S. pressure on President Nixon to meet Hanoi's terms for ending...
...another level, the U. S. government is having its share of troubles in Southeast Asia. It's not that its conduct of the war has been remarkably dishonest and brutal; such petty thoughts have hardly been known to wear on the consciences of our national leaders. The problem is a more technical one. Despite America's monopoly of sheer physical force, the war is quickly becoming a stalemate, and the NLF, Pathet Lao, and North Vietnamese-badly tattered as they have been by the American military machine-aren't about to give...
...time is ripe for another escalation of the war, not only because the American people have shown they will stand for it, but also because the military is becoming increasingly hard-pressed to draw its ten-year armed extravaganza to a successful conclusion. The U. S. has gained the upper hand in South Vietnam, but insurgent forces in Laos and Cambodia are still holding major areas of these countries and are seriously threatening to topple pro-American governments there. Extensive U. S. bombing has done its share of murder and other physical damage, but has not diminished the insurgents' strength...
This time, however, the American escalation will be one of technology, not one of men. During the last several years, the U. S. military has reversed its policy of massive ground war and has instead employed a sophisticated range of machinery to enforce America's will in Southeast Asia. Veterans of the war would scarcely recognize the American command posts in Vietnam if they returned to them today. Instead of guns and arms and all the familiar furniture of colonial warfare, they would see a maze of "electronic battlefields" programmed with up-to-date communication, spewing forth "enemy" positions...
...significant extent, the mechanization theory of counter-insurgency warfare has reversed the tide in Southeast Asia and enabled the United States to progress toward its ultimate goal of ruling the area. Realizing that there was no other way to defeat a liberation movement which commanded a majority following, U. S. leaders opted for mechanical elimination of rural support. The strategy has worked almost completely in Vietnam; and with one-third of Laos now living in caves and one-tenth of all Cambodia rendered homeless by U. S. bombing, there is reason to believe that the strategy will also work...