forced draft urbanization

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Forced draft urbanization (sometimes called "forced draft modernization") was a policy elaborated by Samuel P. Huntington in a 1968 article "The Bases of Accommodation" published in the journal Foreign Affairs,{{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}} which described a strategy of carpet-bombing and defoliating 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.{{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}}{{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}}