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Declassified per Executive Order 13526, Section 3.3
NND Project Number: NND 63316. By: NWD Date: 2011
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- b. On its part, tho GVN would initiate tho following actions:
- (1) Prompt and appropriate legislative and administrative action to put tho nation on a wartime footing to mobilize its entire resources. (This would include a decentralization and broadening of the Government so as to realize the full potential of all non-Communist elements in the country willing to contribute to the common struggle.)
- (2) The vitalization of appropriate Governmental wartime agencies with adequate authority to perform their functions effectively.
- 3) Overhaul of the military establishment and command structure so as to create an effective military organization for the prosecution of the war and assure a mobile offensive capability for the Army.
McGeorge Bundy
Information Copies to:
The Secretary of Defense
Director of Central Intelligence
General Maxwell D. Taylor
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