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Saigon, 1965

2016/6/23
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The episode introduces a secret Pentagon study in Saigon during the early 1960s, led by the RAND Corporation, which aimed to measure the impact of U.S. bombing on North Vietnamese soldiers' morale.

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In the early 1960s the Pentagon set up a top-secret research project in an old villa in downtown Saigon. The task? To interview captured North Vietnamese soldiers and guerrillas in order to measure the effect of relentless U.S. bombing on their morale. Yet despite a wealth of great data, even the leaders of the study couldn’t agree on what it meant.

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