Jim Devine wrote:
I've been told -- by a well-informed political scientist -- that WW Rostow believed that Vietnam was "about to make the take-off" during the 1960s. This "insight" helped shape US military strategy.
According to Robert Wood's From Marshall Plan to Debt Crisis (sorry, I'm doing this from memory, hope it's reliable), Vietnam was the darling of the development establishment in the late 1950s and early 1960s, and South Korea was considered a basket case.
Doug
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