We have found out in Southeast Asia, as the French did there and in Algeria, that we do not yet know how to deal effectively with Mao-type “revolutionary liberation struggle.”
I do not have primarily in mind the military dimension of revolutionary conflict. Though that presents special difficulties, these are not beyond the capacity of conventional military wisdom. But the military problem is integrally linked to psychological-political battles waged both in the local theater and on the homefronts of the supporting nations. The current atrocity campaign reveals how the military, political and psychological phases are in turn fused with complex legal and moral challenges.
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