3. lson and Robert, Where the Domino Fell, p. 70.
4. Summers, Harry G., Jr., On Strategy: A Critical a.n.a.lysis of the Vietnam War, Novato, CA: Presidio Press, 1982. p.68.
5. This manual has been reprinted several times and the Marines are using it in Iraq.
6. Ford, p. 1.
7. Shulimson, Jack. U.S. Marines in Vietnam: an Expanding War, 1966, Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1982, p. 44.
8. USMACV letter to CG III MAF dtd July 4, 1966. Subj: Military Support for Revolutionary Development, encl. 9, 3dMarDiv Command Chronology, July 66. Quoted in Shulimson, Jack. U.S. Marines in Vietnam: an Expanding War, 1966, Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1982, p. 233.
9. Clausewitz, Carl von. On War, Indexed Edition, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984, I:1, p. 80.
10. The World Bank.
11. Reuters News Agency, reported on CNN online March 18, 2000.
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