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more than double the plant's thermal efficiency), and recondi-
tion and relocate other generators elsewhere in North Vietnam.
6.
Overall, I was left with an unresolved query: how could
a country which seems remarkably incapable of competent civil administration be such a paragon of military efficiency? Are
all the managerial resources in the armed forces, or is that
reputation also a myth - and if so, should we lower our esti-
mates of what the Vietnamese can achieve militarily in Cambodia
'if they really wanted to'?
SOUTH EAST ASIAN DEPARTMENT
16 December 1980
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