Cool. Thanks for resolving that bafflement for me.
Defoliants were to be used to kill the rice crops if a starvation blockade was to be used. The Summer rice crop had been a disaster without US interference. Losing the Fall/Winter crop would have meant widespread starvation. The first to die in that scenario would have been nursing babies, the sick and the elderly. The guys with the guns would get their food before anybody else.
Defoliants were to be used to kill the rice crops if a starvation blockade was to be used. The Summer rice crop had been a disaster without US interference. Losing the Fall/Winter crop would have meant widespread starvation. The first to die in that scenario would have been nursing babies, the sick and the elderly. The guys with the guns would get their food before anybody else.
