The Headless Snake
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The Headless Snake outlines the transition of the military with improvements in staffing and our place among nations of the world coexisting in peace.
By: VNR
by Harry Wagner
If you cut the head off of the snake, the snake dies. That was the opening statement of a briefing I attended in Vietnam 1966.
In short, the American strategy for victory in Vietnam was to kill the leaders and anyone who happened to be in the path of the leaders, whether they were soldiers or civilians, government officials or innocent women and children.
Through my work with the Embassy, IFFV General Staff, Psychological Operations, and Phoenix, I developed a strategy that was counter to what the military was doing, but successful in situations involving civilian populations; Persuasion with Relev...