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“None of the people's wars of the sixties did very well, including the one in Vietnam. Vo Nguyen Giap himself has admitted a loss of 600,000 men between 1965 and 1968...Moreover, by about 1970 at least 80% of the day-to-day combat in South Vietnam was being carried on by regular NVA troops...Genuine black-pajama southern guerrillas had been decimated and amounted to no more than 20% of the communist fighting forces.”

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Chalmers Johnson

Chalmers Johnson (August 6, 1931 - November 20, 2010) was an American author, historian, and foreign policy analyst. His work primarily focused on U.S. foreign policy in Asia, particularly the occupation and influence on Japan. more

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