A 1967 study prepared by the head of the Agronomy Section of the Japanese Science Council concluded that U.S. anticrop warfare had already ruined more than 3.8 million acres of arable land in South Vietnam, killing almost 1,000 peasants and over 13,000 livestock.65 This policy of attempting to force enemy capitulation by destroying its food supply was not only contrary to the rules of war,66 it was notable in that it “first and overwhelmingly affected small children.”
