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Part I examines the nature of the insurgency in Thailand and its implications for U.S. aid programming.
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The description of a single-facility, single-consumable-item inventory model in which demands are Poisson, procurement lead-times are either deterministic or exponential, and a continuous review (s, S) replenishment policy is employed. An exact expr...
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An analysis of the role of Vietnamese Communists in the Lao Communist (Pathet Lao) insurgency.
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A personal account of some American tactical operations in central Vietnam from June 1966 through June 1968, which draws implications about the effectiveness of enclave deployment.
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A fighting-and-negotiating strategy is desirable that encourages emergence of a broader, moderate GVN that can coalesce non-Communist factions and exploit divergencies in the Communist camp.
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An examination of the public record of the first half of 1965 to determine whether U.S. air strikes against North Vietnam represented an attempt at military coercion.
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A description from the statistical viewpoint of the sampling design, selection of estimators, and preliminary analysis of maintenance data on KC-135 tanker aircraft of the Strategic Air Command, collected in June-July 1967.
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This Memorandum is part of a continuing study, under the auspices of the Advanced Research Projects Agency, of various military and political aspects of war termination in Vietnam.
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This report represents a statistical analysis of the current Hamlet Evaluation System (HES).
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A description of conditions at one of three neighboring hamlets on the day of the formal ceremony in which the three were to be declared
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An examination of present methods to obtain competition and of possible methods to increase competition in defense procurement of specialized hard goods.
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An exploration of the problems of international war and peace.
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A demonstration that, under the widely used (s, Q) or periodic replenishment stockage policy with backlogging and procurement lead times that are random variables having arbitrary distributions, the stationary probability that the inventory position...
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A comparison of the effectiveness of current methods which measure fighter aircraft system performance.
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An analysis of the recent development and future prospects of China's military strategy. Maoist military doctrine stresses political action in which war is only one of a number of instruments of policy to enable a weak force to succeed against a mil...
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This review of [Can We Win in Vietnam?]... in which the views of the writers are presented separately, in roundtable discussion, and are comparatively analyzed by Kahn.
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Proposal for the incorporation of licensing provisions into government-funded research and development contracts likely to lead to the creation of a body of production technology valuable in follow-on contracts. Two cost-saving benefits of competitio...
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An analysis of the social and political forces fundamental in shaping the political attitudes of those South Vietnamese.
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An examination of the experiences of the Vietminh cadres who remained in South Vietnam after 1954 and their part in orgainzing the Viet Cong insurgency.
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The strength of the Viet Cong lies principally in its organization, not in its ideology or promises of material betterment. Until a way is found to loosen the grip of the organization, the Viet Cong structure is likely to survive.
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