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To: Bilow who wrote (105938)	7/17/2003 2:42:11 AM
From: Jacob Snyder	Respond to of 281500

As I understand it, the set of tactics could have been carried out by regular troops. The requirements did not include extraordinary self-discipline, stamina, or weapons training. Perhaps some training in how to treat the Vietnamese peasants as equal human beings. But that would have happened naturally, if the troops spent their entire deployment in the same place, living in and fighting for one single village. It wasn't the lack of troops, it was the foreignness of the whole concept. They were unable to read and understood Mao's writings on warfare. As I understand it, and I am by no means an expert on this.