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7. Bennett interview, Tape 6, transcript pp, 4-5.
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9. DoQ Study Group - A.M.P.O.O., p. 9.
l0, Colonel E. W. King, GS, letter to Chief, Military History Division,
entitled "History of Development SEA Contingency Structure for PACOM,"
21 November 1963.
11, DoD Study Group - A.M.P.O.G., p. 10. It should be noted that planning
organizations normally had/ha-,e cognizance over several plans, each of
which requires updating annually. Planning staffs are often hard
pressed to complece the reouired annual updating efficiently. In the
case of the USMACV J-5, the one-year tour deprived that command of any
corporate memory and continuity,
12, The Pentagon Papers Sen. Mike Gravel Edition, Volume I of 4 Volumes
(Boston: Beacon Press, 1975), p. 81. Hereafter Gravel Pentagon Papers.
13, William Manchester, American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur 1880-1964
(Boston, Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, 1978), p. 676.
14, Ibid., p. 658. This phrase is extracted from General MacArthur's
farewell address to the US Congress. Also see Volume III of this
study for a discussion of the impact that the Korean War had on US
foreign policy.
15. Colonel Victor J. Croizat, USMC (Ret). Interviewed on 10 February
1970 by Mr. Benis Frank, Marine Corps nral History Program, p. 19.
Colonel Croizat served in Vietnam in 1954 and later translated Volume
II of the French Command's "Lessons Learned in Vietnam."
16. Brown, Prelude to Disaster, pp. 52-53.
17. Ibid., p. 53.
18. President Eisenhower, acknowledging the possibility of Red Chinese
intervention, felt that in such an event the US would have to strike at
the head instead of the tail of the snake, at Red China itself.
Dwight D. Eisenhower, The White House Years: Mandate for Change
1953-1956 (New York: Doubleday and Company, Inc., 1963), p. 354.
Also se2 Volume III, Chapter 3, the Eisenhower Administration, pp.
3-16 to 3-21 and Appendix A to Volume III, pp. A-18 to A-23.
19. Department of the Army, Office of the Director of Plans, Limited War
Plan - Indochina Revised 26 November 1956, (TOP SECRET, -s-Eedown
graded to UNCLASSIFIED).
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