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Communist Revolutionary Warfare - The Vietminh in Indochina (Hardcover)
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Communist Revolutionary Warfare - The Vietminh in Indochina (Hardcover)
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Even today few Americans understand the strategy, doctrine, and
tactics of communist guerrilla warfare. Back in the early 1950s,
the Rand Corporation conducted com* puter*simulated war games
focused on Southeast Asia. The French agony in Indochina had
attracted the attention of a few Rand researchers who had begun to
wonder whether other wars might occur in this area and how the
United States might fight if it became involved. The Rand scenarios
ranged from atomic war to guerrilla conflict. WhUe a professor at
the California Institute of Technology, I was asked to comment on
some of these games. One thing struck me almost immediately-the
communist enemy, or red forces, behaved and fought exactly like the
Americans, or blue forces. From my limited knowledge of the French
Indochina war, I did not think this was the case. The director of
the war games, the late Dr. Edwin Paxson, agreed with my comment,
but plaintively asked, "How do they behave and fight?" I offered to
write a handbook for the red side, based on the Viet Minh
operations against the French in Indochina. After research in Paris
with the French army and air force, I duly completed my handbook in
1958, but by then it was of interest to no one. However, when John
F. Kennedy became president, he stirred up great interest in
Indochina and guerrilla warfare. My red team handbook, gathering
dust, was quickly revised and declassified. It was published in
1961 as the first edition of this book.
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