# Forced draft urbanization

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'''Forced draft urbanization''' (sometimes called "forced draft modernization") was a policy elaborated by [Samuel P. Huntington](/source/Samuel_P._Huntington) in a 1968 article "The Bases of Accommodation" published in the journal ''Foreign Affairs'',<ref name="foreign-affairs-article">{{cite journal|last=Huntington|first=Samuel P.|date=July 1968|title=The Bases of Accommodation|journal=Foreign Affairs|volume=46|issue=4|pages=642–656 |doi=10.2307/20039333|jstor=20039333}}</ref> which described a strategy of carpet-bombing and [defoliating](/source/Operation_Ranch_Hand) the rural lands and jungles of Vietnam, so that peasants there would be unable to support themselves and would be forced to move into the city, thus weakening the support base of the [Viet Cong](/source/Viet_Cong).<ref name="nation-diversity-lazare">{{cite news|url=http://www.thenation.com/doc/20040614/lazare|title=Diversity and Its Discontents|last=Lazare|first=Daniel|date=May 27, 2004|work=The Nation|accessdate=25 December 2009}}</ref><ref name="chomsky-debate">{{cite web|url=http://www.chomsky.info/debates/19700226.htm|title=A Frustrating Task: Noam Chomsky debates with Samuel Huntington|date=February 26, 1970|work=New York Review of Books (online copy at chomsky.info)|accessdate=25 December 2009|archive-date=13 July 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130713044211/http://www.chomsky.info/debates/19700226.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==See also==
* [Vietnam War](/source/Vietnam_War)

==References==
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* [https://books.google.com/books?lr=&q=forced+draft+urbanization&btnG=Search+Books Google Books results for "forced draft urbanization"]

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