ABSTRACT
This chapter considers three of the many problems that arise from the military portion of the war, but which find their counterparts in the nonmilitary parts of the war and suggests that Vietnam is an interdisciplinry war. A suggested name for such an organization could be the National Independence Support Agency. In the absence of a common data base, it is possible and plausible that North Vietnam and the Viet Cong are using different graphs, different parameters of performance, and different indices of success. The image one gets of progress in the Vietnam engagement is that of a saw-tooth wave. Much more important, its pursuit is self-defeating, because it diverts the eye from the task at hand, of using the equipment already in hand, of inventing suitable tactics and techniques, and of coming to a full understanding of the problem in Vietnam.
