Iron Triangle (Vietnam) bureau members Phạm Hùng and Lê Đức Thọ, and southern military commander Trần Văn Trà all joined together in the Iron Triangle region to orchestrate the final, decisive attack on Saigon. The area had remained allied with the nationalist communist forces from the beginning of the French war in 1946 to the fall of Saigon in 1975: an exception in a country often torn region by region between control by American forces and control by the Viet Cong. Iron Triangle (Vietnam) The Iron Triangle (Vietnamese:"Tam Giác Sắt") was a area in the Bình Dương Province of Vietnam, so named due
Iron triangle (US politics) Iron triangle (US politics) In United States politics, the iron triangle comprises the policy-making relationship among the congressional committees, the bureaucracy, and interest groups. The earlier known mention of ‘iron triangle’ was in a 1956 Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report as “Iron triangle: Clout, background, and outlook” and as “Chinks in the Iron Triangle?” Central to the concept of an iron triangle is the assumption that bureaucratic agencies, as political entities, seek to create and consolidate their own power base. In this view an agency's power is determined by its constituency, not by its consumers. (For these purposes, "constituents" are politically