The urgency of an adequate food supply for military personnel and civilians in a country involved in a war has been demonstrated time and again since the beginning of history. That "an army travels on its stomach" can be proved over and over. It is a certainty that a nation hardpressed to feed its people will be even more severely pressed to support an army. North Vietnam and its allies. China and the Soviet Union. were all faced with serious food shortages in 1972. Last July all laborers including military reinforcements and refugees were pressed into service to harvest the North Vietnamese spring rice crop. The Hanoi government urged its people to devote every inch of tillable land to food crops. Even in good years.
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