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To: Michael Watkins who wrote (150227)	11/1/2004 1:02:59 PM
From: Jacob Snyder	Respond to of 281500

<Sounds very much like Viet Cong tactics.> After WW2, when the French tried to re-assert control of Vietnam, Ho sent teams out to every village, to identify, "re-educate", and/or kill anyone who worked with the French in any capacity. Anybody who even spoke French was a target. This hollowed out French power. It meant the only places the French controlled, were the places their troops directly occupied. At first, a squad could control a village. Later, it took a company; then a division. Gradually, the area of French control was reduced to besieged garrisons. This method worked to conquer N. Vietnam in the 1950s. Took a bit longer, but the exact same method worked in S. Vietnam, too. Neither the French, nor the Americans, ever came up with an effective counter-strategy. Apparently, we still haven't.