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Forced draft urbanization
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<p>Forced draft urbanization (sometimes called "forced draft modernization") was a policy elaborated by <a href="/facts/Samuel_P._Huntington/Y5QY8bXP">Samuel P. Huntington</a> in a 1968 article "The Bases of Accommodation" published in the journal <i>Foreign Affairs</i>, which described a strategy of carpet-bombing and <a href="/facts/Operation_Ranch_Hand/Ta8hUm7V">defoliating</a> 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 <a href="/facts/Viet_Cong/hkoWcwRy">Viet Cong</a>. </p>