Viet Cong Motivation and Morale Project

The Viet Cong Motivation and Morale Project was a series of studies done by the American research institute RAND from late 1964 through the end of 1968. The project interviewed Viet Cong prisoners and defectors with the intention of better understanding the motivating factors and assessing morale of the insurgency during the Vietnam War. Over the course of the study, 2,371 interviews took place and over 60,000 pages of information were produced. Interpretations of the study's findings were contested by people both involved and uninvolved in the project.