Rural Pacification in Vietnam
Author | : William A. Nighswonger |
Publisher | : New York, Praeger |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : Community development |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : William A. Nighswonger |
Publisher | : New York, Praeger |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : Community development |
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Author | : Thomas L. Ahern |
Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 442 |
Release | : 2009-11-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0813139333 |
This insider’s account of CIA operations in the Vietnam War is “a major contribution to scholarship” on US counterinsurgency programs (John Prados, author of Lost Crusader). Vietnam Declassified is a detailed account of the CIA's effort to help South Vietnamese authorities win the loyalty of the Vietnamese peasantry and suppress the Viet Cong. Covering the CIA engagement from 1954 to mid-1972, it provides a thorough analysis of the agency and its partners. Retired CIA operative and intelligence consultant Thomas L. Ahern Jr. is the first to comprehensively document the CIA's role in the rural pacification of South Vietnam, drawing from secret archives to which he had unrestricted access. In addition to a chronology of operations, the book explores the assumptions, political values, and cultural outlooks of not only the CIA and other US government agencies, but also of the peasants, Viet Cong, and Saigon government forces competing for their loyalty. “This long-awaited volume, finally cleared for open publication and filled with fascinating detail, insider perspective, and controversial judgments, is a must-read for all students of the Vietnam War.” —Lewis Sorley, author of Westmoreland
Author | : John Lamperti |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1966 |
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Author | : Richard A Hunt |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2018-02-05 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0429978146 |
During the Vietnam War, the United States embarked on an unusual crusade on behalf of the government of South Vietnam. Known as the pacification program, it sought to help South Vietnam's government take root and survive as an independent, legitimate entity by defeating communist insurgents and promoting economic development and political reforms. In this book, Richard Hunt provides the first comprehensive history of America's "battle for hearts and minds," the distinctive blending of military and political approaches that took aim at the essence of the struggle between North and South Vietnam.Hunt concentrates on the American role, setting pacification in the larger political context of nation building. He describes the search for the best combination of military and political action, incorporating analysis of the controversial Phoenix program, and illuminates the difficulties the Americans encountered with their sometimes reluctant ally. The author explains how hard it was to get the U.S. Army involved in pacification and shows the struggle to yoke divergent organizations (military, civilian, and intelligence agencies) to serve one common goal. The greatest challenge of all was to persuade a surrogate--the Saigon government--to carry out programs and to make reforms conceived of by American officials.The book concludes with a careful assessment of pacification's successes and failures. Would the Saigon government have flourished if there had been more time to consolidate the gains of pacification? Or was the regime so fundamentally flawed that its demise was preordained by its internal contradictions? This pathbreaking book offers startling and provocative answers to these and other important questions about our Vietnam experience.
Author | : William Asa Nighswonger |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Communism |
ISBN | : |
Author | : R. W. Komer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 406 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Fortification |
ISBN | : |
In at least one area the U.S. has consciously attempted not to overmilitarize or over-Americanize the war in Vietnam, but rather to cope with its rural revolutionary and largely political dimension. This attempt is known as pacification. The efforts have been designed more or less to serve two central aims: sustained protection of the rural population from the insurgents, which also helps to deprive the insurgency of its rural popular base and generating rural support for the Saigon regime via programs meeting rural needs and cementing the rural areas politically and administratively to the center. A secondary purpose has been to help neutralize the active insurgent forces and apparatus in the countryside. In essence it is a civil as well as a military process. (Author).
Author | : Thomas L. Ahern |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 430 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Vietnam |
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Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Vietnam War, 1961-1975 |
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Author | : William A. Nighswonger |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : Communism |
ISBN | : |
The study is concerned with the efforts of the Republic of Vietnam and its allies to establish peace in the rural areas of South Vietnam. The focus of the study is the administration of counterinsurgency campaigns at the province level and below. Part 1 deals with the context of the insurgency such as the social, political, and historical factors involved and the strategy and tactics of the communist movement in the rural areas. Part 2 briefly surveys the efforts to pacify the rural areas, beginning with the 1954 Civic Action programs of Ngo Dinh Diem. The strategy of the Strategic Hamlet program and its successors is analyzed as an introduction to more detailed discussions in Part 3. Part 4 deals briefly with the national pacification system, with special attention to the American advisory role. Part 5 includes a summary evaluation of pacification efforts in Vietnam and a proposed theory and model for an improved approach to the problem.
Author | : Robert M. Montague |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 47 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : Guerrilla warfare |
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