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ASSIGNMENT ON Guenter Lewy, "Some Political-Military Lessons..." and
      Gabriel Kolko, "Chapter  10: The War and Rural Vietnam"

     Please read both of these articles very carefully. Underline,
make notes, etc. The Kolko article is now available here.

     Then, compare and contrast Lewy's and Kolko's interpretation of
the importance of the question of LAND, the PEASANTRY, and how the 
WAR was related to these questions.
	
     Write 300-500 words. Send your essay to your group. 

     Make sure you read all the contributions of your fellow
group-members. We will discuss them in class.

	
     For your information: 

     * Guenter Lewy is a professor of political
science at U. Mass/Amherst. He wrote the first book on the Vietnam War
authorized by the U.S. government, _America in Vietnam_ (Oxford:
1978), with access to all U.S. government records and other official
sources. He is very conservative and anti-communist. 

     * Gabriel Kolko is
an American historian who now teaches in Ontario, Canada. This chapter
is from his work _Anatomy of a War_, a monumental study of the war
from an anti-imperialist perspective, using US sources and Communist
sources translated by the US during the war.