Rostow thesis

The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military | 2001 | 426 words | Copyright

Rostow thesis the proposition, developed by Walt W. Rostow, which held that an externally supported insurgency could be defeated only by military action against the external source of support. Rostow's thesis led inevitably to the United States military strategy in the Vietnam War which was based on a series of escalating military measures designed to raise the cost of supporting the Communist insurgency in South Vietnam.

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