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CHAPTER 1 ENDNOTES
1. J.M, Collins, "Vietnam Postmortem: A Senseless Strategy," The VieLnam
War In Perspective, S.R.G. (Washington, DC: National War College, May
10, 1972), p. 1. It should be noted that page numbers were absent
from the text of this particular article; page references are, therefore,
based on the chronological sequence of pages in the article,
2. General Vo Nguyen Giap. The Military Art of People' War. Selected
Writings of General Vo Nygyen Giap, Ed. and with Intro, by Russell
Stetler (New York and London:. Monthly Review Press, 1970), p, 176.
3. For a detailed analysis of North Vietnamese, Soviet, and Chinese
objectives and strategies, see Volume I, particularly Chapters 1, 6,
and 7. For analyses of South Vietnamese and US objectives and straLegies,
refer to Volume II, especially Chapters 5 and 7, and Volume III,
especially Chapter 1, and this Volume, Passim. For a discussion of
the national objectives and strategies of other allies of the US, see
also Chapter 3 of this Volume.
4. Melvin Gurtov, "Hanoi on War and Peace," Vietnam and American Foreign
Policy. Ed. by John R. Boettiger (Lexington, Massachusetts:, D.C,
Heath and Company, 1968), p. 56,
5. Henry Kissinger, The White House Years (Boston and Toronto. Little,
Brown and Company, 1979), p. 236; and General Bruce Palmer (US Army,
Ret.), "Remarks - Elective Course, the Vietnam War." Lecture given at
the US Army War College, May 31, 1979, p.11.
6. Palmer, p. 11,
7. Figure 1-1 is adapted from Volume I - The Enem,, Chapter 6 - "External
Support" and from other sources appearing ir. the Volume V bibliography
and, particularly, those appearing in this Chapter's endnotes.
8. Gurtov, p. 63.
9, Doglass Pike, Vietnam War: View From The Other Side (Saigon:
December 1967), p, 24.,
10. Donald S. Zaooria, Vietnam Triangle: Moscow, Peking, Hanoi (New York.
Praeger Press, 1967T, pp. 132-133; and "The Viet Cong Political Infrastructure
in South Vietnam" (A SEATO Short Paper - 55) History of the
Vietnam War on Microfilm (Bangkok: The Research Office, South-East
Asia Treaty Organization, 1972), pp. 48-49.
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