ABSTRACT
The South Vietnamese people stumble through the war like weary men embarked on an endless trek—their society shattered not only by the military operations but also by the imposition of an economic scale which, by the placement of the war-related "professions" at the top, has turned their whole world upside down. In Viet-Nam, the Communist air force was, at least until the end of 1966, almost nonexistent, and evens the much-vaunted Soviet missiles, while they successfully deterred the employment of American heavy bombers, were of minor importance. The Soviet Union, which had always provided North Viet-Nam with a modicum of support in the form of weapons and aid, suddenly began to advertise the extent of its support of Hanoi in October, 1966, in the field of Soviet military personnel and equipment. It is probably harder to obtain a balanced picture of Saigon-controlled South Viet-Nam as it was in late 1966 than of North Viet-Nam.
