Forced draft urbanization (sometimes called "Forced draft modernization") was a policy elaborated by
Samuel P. Huntington in a 1968 article "The Bases of Accommodation" published in the journal ''Foreign Affairs'',
which described a strategy of carpet-bombing and
defoliating the rural lands and jungles of Vietnam, so that peasants there would be unable to support themselves and would be forced to move into the city, thus weakening the support base of the
Viet Cong
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Vietnam War
The Vietnam War (also known by other names) was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. It was the second of the Indochina Wars and was officially fought between North Vietnam a ...
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