Vietnam War: statistical analysis and evaluation projects, 1968-1972.
Collection Number: 4406
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Vietnam War: statistical analysis and evaluation projects, 1968-1972.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
4406
Abstract:
Documentation for various automated systems designed to provide data about the war
in Vietnam.
Creator:
Prince, William G.
Quanitities:
.7 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
Documentation for various automated systems designed to provide data about the war
in Vietnam. Systems include Project Corona Harvest to evaluate the effectiveness of
airpower in Southeast Asia; Hamlet Evaluation System (HES), a reporting system designed
to gather data on the progress of the rural pacification effort; SEAPRS (Southeast
Asia Province file), designed to facilitate analysis of friendly and enemy military
and pacification activity at the province level; PAAS (Pacification Attitude Analysis
System), an automated system to provide a means of processing and reporting the results
of surveys to determine the attitudes of the Vietnamese people toward pacification,
the war, and political, social, and economic development; SEER (System for Evaluating
the Effectiveness of RVNAF), designed to provide quantified evaluations of Vietnamese
armed forces unit combat effectiveness in performance of assigned missions; AIRSUM
(Air Summary Data Base), an historical record of all offensive air activity in Southeast
Asia from 1965 to 1972; and Project Corona Harvest, an Air Force project designed
to evaluate the effectiveness of air power in Southeast Asia from 1954.
Documentation was compiled by Prince as part of an Analysis of Vietnamization project,
conducted by the Dept. of Applied Science and Technology, Bendix Aerospace Systems
Division, sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, and completed
in 1973.
Additional pamphlets and reports by William G. Prince are housed in the Echols Collection, Kroch Library, Cornell University.
Series I. Project Corona Harvest | Box 1 |
Series II. HES 70 | Box 1 |
Series III. SEAPRS | Box 1 |
Series IV. PAAS | Box 1 |
Series V. SEER | Box 1 |
Series VI. AIRSUM | Boxes 1 and 2 |
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Vietnam War: Statistical Analysis and Evaluation Projects, #4406. Division of Rare
and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
Documentation was compiled by Prince as part of an Analysis of Vietnamization project,
conducted by the Dept. of Applied Science and Technology, Bendix Aerospace Systems
Division, sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, and completed
in 1973.
Subjects:
Military assistance, American -- Southeast Asia -- Computer programs.
Military art and science -- Automation.
Military art and science -- Data processing.
Insurgency -- Vietnam.
Internal security -- Vietnam
Combat -- Statistics -- Information sources.
Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975.
CONTAINER LIST
Container
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Description
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Date
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Series I. Project Corona Harvest
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Scope and Contents
System to evaluate the effectiveness of airpower in Southeast Asia, encompassing all
airpower employed from 1954 to the end of the conflict (Air Force project).
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Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Operating instructions,
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1968 |
Series II. HES 70
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Scope and Contents
Hamlet Evaluation System--reporting system designed to gather data on the progress
of the rural pacification effort.
Data gathering instrument--formatted, multiple choice questionnaire:
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Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Comparison of HES 70 and PAAS
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Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Memo,
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1970 |
Box 1 | Folder 4 |
Appendix A--Question codes, question responses
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Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Hamlet level HES statistics and plots by NMCSSC for village program analysis (1)
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Box 1 | Folder 6 |
VSSG IDX (2)
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Box 1 | Folder 7 |
Security (3)
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Box 1 | Folder 8 |
Econ. str. (4)
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Box 1 | Folder 9 |
Econ. stm. (5)
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Box 1 | Folder 10 |
[unlabeled] (6)
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Box 1 | Folder 11 |
Soc. ben. (7)
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Box 1 | Folder 12 |
GVN pol. inf. (8)
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Box 1 | Folder 13 |
VC pol. inf.
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Box 1 | Folder 14 |
Prog. effort
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Box 1 | Folder 15 |
Misc. ques.
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Series III. SEAPRS
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Scope and Contents
Southeast Asia Province file--designed to facilitate analysis of friendly and enemy
military and pacification activity at the province level. Summarized data is organized
by month for Province Corps, Viet Cong Military Regions, Division Tactical Areas,
Special Tactical Zones, and Countrywide. Some fields use data from or indicators developed
by HES.
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Box 1 | Folder 16 |
Southeast Asia Province (also includes Hamlet Evaluations System Handbook),
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1969 |
Series IV. PAAS
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Scope and Contents
Pacification Attitude Analysis System. Automated system to provide the Military Assistance
Command Civil Operations and Rural Development Support, Pacification Study Group a
means of processing and reporting the results of surveys to determine the attitudes
of the Vietnamese people toward pacification, the War, and political, social, and
economic development.
Data gathering instrument--semi-structured informal interview:
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Box 1 | Folder 17 |
Functional Description for Pacification Attitude Analysis System (PAAS),
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Jan. 25, 1970 |
Box 1 | Folder 18 |
Command Manual for Pacification Attitude Analysis System (PAAS),
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May 15, 1970 |
Box 1 | Folder 19 |
PAAS, May 1,
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1970 |
Box 1 | Folder 20-21 |
Questionnaires
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Series V. SEER
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Scope and Contents
System for Evaluating the Effectiveness of RVNAF Subsystems:
Objectives:
Includes correspondence between Thomas C. Thayer (Office of the Assistant Secretary
of Defense, Systems Analysis) and Richard Cady (Bendix Aerospace Systems Division)
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Box 1 | Folder 22 |
System for Evaluating the Effectiveness of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Vietnam
(SEER) User's Manual, pp. 1-6,
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1970 |
Box 1 | Folder 23 |
SEER (2), Part I, Army and Marine Forces Evaluation File, pp. 7-32, 1968-1969 Quarterly
Evaluation Data
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1968-1969 |
Box 1 | Folder 24 |
Part II, Army and Marine Forces Evaluation File, 1968 Monthly Statistical Component,
pp. 33-156
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1968 |
Box 1 | Folder 25 |
User's Manual, pp. 157-213
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Box 1 | Folder 26 |
MACV, DIR 335-13, SEER Reports and Statistics,
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1969 |
Box 1 | Folder 27 |
SEER User's Manual, complete (duplicate?)
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Box 1 | Folder 28 |
Territorial Forces Evaluation System (TFES) Handbook,
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Nov. 1969 |
Box 1 | Folder 29 |
Thomas Thayer to Richard Cady--correspondence, re: SEA Programs,
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1969 |
Series VI. AIRSUM
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Scope and Contents
Air Summary Date Base (or File). Represented an historical record of all offensive
air activity in Southeast Asia from 1965 to 1972. Contains information from a number
of different yet overlapping reporting systems. Data was obtained from the historical
Combat Air Activities File (CACTA) and its successor since 1971, the Southeast Asia
Data Base File (SEADAB).
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Box 1 | Folder 30 |
AIRSUM File Documentation,
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1972 |
Box 1 | Folder 31 |
A.I.D. (?), IndoChina Postwar Reconstruction,
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1973 |
Box 2 | Folder 1 |
Friendly and Enemy Activity Resource Profiles (by province), possibly SEAPRS (?)
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