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By Fred Branfman
“Why, then, have the guerrillas in South Vietnam not moved on the cities? There are two basic theories: the first one is that they can’t. They can’t because first, the Americans have a million ARVNs surrounding the cities – there are two million men under arms – and second, as was shown by the Tet offensive of 1968, U.S. leaders are prepared to level every city in South Vietnam to dust. The third part of this first theory that the guerrillas can’t is that the political and cultural repression is working, so the NLF has less active support now in the cities; Also there is the idea that the NLF simply doesn’t have the capability to take the cities because
of the enormous losses suffered during Tet 1968.”
