Reprint of a 1965 U. S. Department of State summary report of North Vietnamese aggression.From the introduction: South Viet-Nam is fighting for its life against a brutal campaign of terror and armed attack inspired, directed supplied, and controlled by the Communist regime in Hanoi. This flagrant aggression has been going on for years, but recently the pace has quickened and the threat has now become acute.The war in Viet-Nam is a new kind of war, a fact as yet poorly understood in most parts of the world. Much of the ...
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Reprint of a 1965 U. S. Department of State summary report of North Vietnamese aggression.From the introduction: South Viet-Nam is fighting for its life against a brutal campaign of terror and armed attack inspired, directed supplied, and controlled by the Communist regime in Hanoi. This flagrant aggression has been going on for years, but recently the pace has quickened and the threat has now become acute.The war in Viet-Nam is a new kind of war, a fact as yet poorly understood in most parts of the world. Much of the confusion that prevails in the thinking of many people, and even many governments, stems from this basic misunderstanding. For in Viet-Nam a totally new brand of aggression has been loosed against an independent people who want to make their own way in peace and freedom.Viet-Nam is not another Greece, where indigenous guerrilla forces used friendly neighboring territory as a sanctuary.Viet-Nam is not another Malaya, where Communist Guerillas were, for the most part, physically distinguishable from the peaceful majority they sought to control.Viet-Nam is not another Philippines, where Communist guerillas were physically separated from the source of their moral and physical support.Above all, the war in Viet-Nam is not a spontaneous and local rebellion against the established government.There are elements in the Communist program of conquest directed against South Viet-Nam common to each of the previous areas of aggression and subversion. But there is one fundamental difference. In Viet-Nam a Communist government has set out deliberately to conquer a sovereign people in a neighboring state...
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