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Declassified per Executive Order 13526, Section 3.3
NND Project Number: NND 63316. By: NWD Date: 2011

98. 

MAAG Vietnam Narrative Statement, November 1958, revised to include all changes through 31 March 1959 (S). Apparently the NVA was excluded from this comparison.

99. 

"Preferably, two U.S. advisory personnel should be assigned to each battalion size unit." MAAG Country Statement, 30 June 1956 (S). Authorized Advisor positions were as follows:

AUTHORIZED NUMBER OF ADVISORS, AUTHORIZED STRENGTH PER UNIT

[Source: Research Analysis Corporation, Cost Analysis of Counterinsurgency Land Combat Operations: Vietnam, 1957–1964 (U) Volume II, Appendix G, pp. 210–211, August 1967 (S)]

	1956	1957	1958	1959	1960	1961
Corps	-	5(5)	10(5)	15(5)	15(5)	100(33)
Division	30(3)	30(3)	30(3)	35(5)	35(5)	35(4)
Regiment	35(1)	35(1)	31(1)	26(1)	26(1)	29(1)
Battalion	-	-	-	-	-	672(7)
Abn Brigade	1(1)	1(1)	1(1)	1(1)	1(1)	4(4)
Ranger Co.	-	-	-	7(7)	7(7)	18(.5)
Schools and Tng Centers	26(6)	26(6)	26(6)	22(6)	22(6)	42(3)
Sectors	-	-	-	-	-	39(1)
	92(11)	97(16)	98(16)	106(25)	106(25)	939(53.5)

Available information does not permit accounting for the balance of MAAG strength for any of the years considered. According to RAC, "There are no data available on the actual number of U.S. Army advisors in the RVN before 30 November 1961."

100. 

MAAG Vietnam Narrative Statement, November 1958, revised to include all changes through November 1959 (S).

101. 

Ibid.

102. 

"The fact that the army marched, as it were, on its Counterpart Fund did not secure its exclusion from politics after all, therefore, and in the end the army killed Ngo Dinh Diem when the U.S. suspended the CIP in order to bring him to his senses." Duncanson, op.cit., p. 293.

103. 

"...discipline was affected by distaste to inflict punishment on the slack or insubordinate and, with that, loss of face, so that such misdemeanors as absence without leave (outright desertion was race) and neglect to carry out operational orders became very common." Ibid., p. 290.

104. 

Memorandum, Dr. Edward W. Weidner to Mr. Leland Barrows, USOM, "Recommendation for American and Vietnamese Action Re Civil Security," October 11, 1955.