Editing Agent Orange (section)

==Sociopolitical impact==
American policy during the Vietnam War was to destroy crops, accepting the sociopolitical impact that that would have.<ref name=Turse/> The [[RAND Corporation]]'s ''Memorandum 5446-ISA/ARPA'' states: "the fact that the VC [the Vietcong] obtain most of their food from the neutral rural population dictates the destruction of civilian crops&nbsp;... if they are to be hampered by the crop destruction program, it will be necessary to destroy large portions of the rural economy – probably 50% or more".{{sfn|Verwey|1977|p=115}} Crops were deliberately sprayed with Agent Orange and areas were bulldozed clear of vegetation forcing many rural civilians to cities.<ref name=Turse>{{cite book |last=Turse |first=Nick |title=Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PeFK5dkYZsEC&pg=PT95 |date=2013 |publisher=Henry Holt and Company |isbn=978-0-8050-9547-0 |pages=95–99 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170331041154/https://books.google.com/books?id=PeFK5dkYZsEC&pg=PT95 |archive-date=2017-03-31 |url-status=live}}</ref>