client regime (GVN) is “ capable of suppressing it” (my italics the crucial condition throughout). The basic method turns out to be simple: deletion.Īs for others, the centerpiece of Galbraith’s discussion of the withdrawal plans is NSAM 263, in which JFK gave qualified approval to the recommendations of Robert McNamara and Maxwell Taylor, who were greatly encouraged by the military prospects in South Vietnam and were “convinced that the Viet Cong insurgency” could be sharply reduced in a year and that the U.S.–run war effort should be “completed by the end of 1965.” They therefore advised “An increase in the military tempo” of the war throughout South Vietnam and withdrawal of some troops in 1963 and all troops in 1965-if this could be done “ without impairment of the war effort” and with assurance that “ the insurgency has been suppressed” or at least sufficiently weakened so that the U.S. Having worked through the relevant documentation that James Galbraith cites, I was curious to see how he could reach his conclusions in his article “Exit Strategy” (October/November 2003), at variance with the mainstream of scholarship and other commentary, as he notes.
Noam Chomsky replies to James Galbraith's article, " Exit Strategy," published in the September/October 2003 issue.
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