CIA • 1965

BALANCE OF FORCES IN SOUTH VIETNAM

Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/10/10 : CIA-RDP79T00472A000400030013-1 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/10/10 : CIA-RDP79T00472A000400030013-1 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/10/10 : CIA-RDP79T00472A000400030013-1 ? a OCI No. 0936/65 CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY Office of Current Intelligence 12 March 1965 1. Official US estimates of the respective strengths of the total South Vietnamese Government and Viet Cong military establishments in South Vietnam show a ratio less than 5:1 as contrasted with the accepted ratio of at least 10:1 required for a force to defeat guerrilla insurgency...