Vietnam was a french colony from 18 87 until 19 54. It was split in half, Communists took over the north and an american backed regime came into power in the south. A new theory is that revolutionary development may look good on paper, but nothing pacifies quite like old fashioned military might and a live force of more than eight thousand men.
In the early 1960s the Pentagon set up a top-secret research project in an old villa in downtown Saigon. The task? To interview captured North Vietnamese soldiers and guerrillas in order to measure the effect of relentless U.S. bombing on their morale. Yet despite a wealth of great data, even the leaders of the study couldn’t agree on what it meant.
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