([.vietnam]lewykolkohw.;) 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.