Samuel P. Huntington, professor of government, said last night that the United States cannot win the war in Vietnam because we have not recognised that the revolution is "less a war than a political campaign" for the support of the disaffected masses."

Addressing the Society of Harvard games, Huntington asserted that the only policy open to the United States is the one it is pursuing: to try to keep the war from escalating to the so-called Mao "Third Phase" of open aggression.

Huntington stressed that even in following a policy of limiting the military aspects of the war, the United States will only he "delaying defeat." He observed however, that it would give us time to strengthen our position in Laos and Thailand.

Huntington attacked the idea of winning the war by arbitration, stating that "negotiations are a method rather than a goal," and that proponents of peace talks have failed to define any goals, other than negotiations.

According to Huntington, forming a lateral government is theoretically possible, but realistically unachievable, because there are no neutralists, no government, and no country to be neutralized.

He dismissed as ridiculous the idea that withdrawal will reduce our status as a major world power. He commented, however, that withdrawal would undergone the credibility of our other commitments and damage our relations with the United Kingdom. Furthermore, he said, it would strengthen the role of China in the "world Communist move-