Source: Document 40, The Foreign Relations of the United States, 1964-1968, Vol. III, Vietnam, June-December 1965, (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian, 1996), 107-13. Available at

Summary This paper, written on the premise that we are losing the war in Viet-Nam, advances and supports the following propositions: 1. We cannot achieve our political objectives by expanding