Content note: Cartoon panel showing a field of dead soldiers under aircraft and smoke, and a young man being seized by armed men. This object is shown as it was published. Why
Hôm nay / Ngày mai: tại sao Việt Cộng thi hành chánh sách 'cưỡng bách tòng quân' (Today / Tomorrow: why the Viet Cong carry out the policy of 'forced conscription')
A narrow two-panel cartoon leaflet is labelled 'Today' and 'Tomorrow'. At left two armed men in conical hats seize a young man while a woman raises her arms in distress; at right bodies lie across a field under smoke and low-flying aircraft. The tell: a before-and-after pairing in which recruitment by the other side is shown ending in mass death, with the slogan posed as a question about 'forced conscription'.
- Date
- 1966
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- Republic of Vietnam government leaflet; no issuer printed (Commons applies PD-South VietnamGov); held in the Gary Carlson Collection, Marine Corps Archives
- Region
- Southeast Asia
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Medium
- Leaflet
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Ky Government
- Leader
- Nguyen Cao Ky
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- Themes
- War and the military, Home front
- Event
- Vietnam War
- Techniques
- Fear appeal
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (from Marine Corps Archives & Special Collections, Gary Carlson Collection, via Flickr), retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (Commons tag PD-South VietnamGov: Republic of Vietnam government work)
Marine Corps Archives & Special Collections (Gary Carlson Collection), via Flickr and Wikimedia Commons.
Text on the object
HÔM NAY NGÀY MAI TẠI SAO VIỆT CỘNG THI HÀNH CHÁNH SÁCH "CƯỠNG BÁCH TÒNG QUÂN"
TODAY TOMORROW WHY DO THE VIET CONG CARRY OUT THE POLICY OF "FORCED CONSCRIPTION"
The cartoon panels carry no other text. Translation is FRAME's own literal rendering, machine-assisted and not verified by a fluent reader.
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