Hunting The Viet Cong The Counterinsurgency Campaign In South Vietnam 1961 1963 Volume 1 The Strategic Hamlet Programme
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Author | : Darren Poole |
Publisher | : Asia@War |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2022-09-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781915070630 |
This book examines the counterinsurgency campaign in South Vietnam, 1961-63. Using captured Viet Cong documents it reveals how badly the VC were, in their own words, being 'cut up'.
Author | : Darren Poole |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2022 |
Genre | : Counterinsurgency |
ISBN | : |
The second volume in this series, Hunting the Viet Cong: The Fall of Diem and the Collapse of the Strategic Hamlets, 1961-64 looks at why the strategy ultimately failed. Focussing on events in South Vietnam, the book exposes Viet Cong atrocities, South Vietnamese corruption and American military and political negligence. The book reveals just how violent and aggressive the Viet Cong were towards their own people. Fear was a weapon of choice: beheading civilians, mutilating children and destroying schools and hospitals were all legitimate tactics in the VC toolbox. The book also explains how a strategy designed to protect Vietnamese villagers made them easy targets for violent guerrillas. Finally, it reveals that there were many decent Americans in South Vietnam who understood the nation and its people but who were constantly ignored by those in power. --
Author | : Darren Poole |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2022-12 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781804510186 |
The early 1960s are considered to be a period of failure in the fight against the Viet Cong. However, new research reveals that the VC came very close to being defeated. They were - in their own words - being 'cut up'.The second volume of Hunting the Viet Cong presents a new perspective on the early stages of the Vietnam War. It shows how the counterinsurgency policy of the American-backed Diem government was effective in separating the Viet Cong from many of their supporters, forced many VC into hiding and created a platform for further government success.The book examines both the Counterinsurgency Plan and the Strategy Hamlet Program (based upon British success in the Malayan Emergency) and explains how these began to strangle insurgent activity. In many parts of South Vietnam, the VC were reduced to scavenging and intimidating the local people in order to survive. Tragically, this was a period when victory against the VC was possible but political ineptness, arrogance and military delusion threw this chance away.Using documents captured from the Viet Cong, VC prisoner interviews and American military reports the book reveals just how close the insurgents came to being beaten. It contradicts and challenges many of the assumed notions of this time period; it reveals just how much American planners knew about Viet Cong methods, shows how they developed an excellent counterinsurgency strategy to combat insurgent violence and illustrates how - in contrast to the established wisdom - large parts of South Vietnam were under government control before the Diem coup in 1963.The book explains why, despite damaging the Viet Cong, the US and its South Vietnamese allies were unable to win the war. Finally, the book shows that US advisors and military personnel were combatting a violent, terrorist organization and had a moral justification for intervening in South-East Asia.
Author | : Darren Poole |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2022 |
Genre | : Counterinsurgency |
ISBN | : |
The second volume in this series, Hunting the Viet Cong: The Fall of Diem and the Collapse of the Strategic Hamlets, 1961-64 looks at why the strategy ultimately failed. Focussing on events in South Vietnam, the book exposes Viet Cong atrocities, South Vietnamese corruption and American military and political negligence. The book reveals just how violent and aggressive the Viet Cong were towards their own people. Fear was a weapon of choice: beheading civilians, mutilating children and destroying schools and hospitals were all legitimate tactics in the VC toolbox. The book also explains how a strategy designed to protect Vietnamese villagers made them easy targets for violent guerrillas. Finally, it reveals that there were many decent Americans in South Vietnam who understood the nation and its people but who were constantly ignored by those in power. --
Author | : Geoffrey C. Stewart |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2017-03-24 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1108210465 |
Vietnam's Lost Revolution employs newly-released archival material from Vietnam to examine the rise and fall of the Special Commissariat for Civic Action in the First Republic of Vietnam, and in so doing reassesses the origins of the Vietnam War. A cornerstone of Ngô Đình Diệm's presidency, Civic Action was intended to transform Vietnam into a thriving, modern, independent, noncommunist Southeast Asian nation. Geoffrey Stewart juxtaposes Diem's revolutionary plan with the conflicting and competing visions of Vietnam's postcolonial future held by other indigenous groups. He shows how the government failed to gain legitimacy within the peasantry, ceding the advantage to the communist-led opposition and paving the way for the American military intervention in the mid-1960s. This book provides a richer and more nuanced analysis of the origins of the Vietnam War in which internal struggles over national identity, self-determination, and even modernity itself are central.
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 43 |
Release | : 1989 |
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The Vietnam conflict spread dissension into every corner of our political and cultural environment and shattered the foreign policy consensus that had guided US relations since World War II. The initial combined effort of the United States and South Vietnam to defeat the insurgency was the Strategic Hamlet Program failed due to the absence of an operational link between strategic concept and tactical execution. The monograph initially reviews the strategic context that existed in South Vietnam during the critical period of 1961-1963, that window in time in which the United States first became an active and full-fledged ally of the South Vietnamese. This review established that the two partners held very different perspectives on the conflict and had different objectives in mind when they entered into the Strategic Hamlet Program as a combined effort. (RRH).
Author | : Gregory Daddis |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0199316503 |
This groundbreaking study offers a major reinterpretation of American strategy during the first half of the Vietnam War. Gregory A. Daddis argues senior military leaders developed a comprehensive campaign strategy, one not confined to 'attrition' of enemy forces. This innovative work is a must for a genuine understanding of the Vietnam War.
Author | : Harvey C. Neese |
Publisher | : US Naval Institute Press |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
The common theme of their individual essays suggests that the war in Vietnam might have had a much different - and far less tragic - outcome if only U.S. policy makers had listened to experts familiar with Asian cultures and communist revolutionary warfare tactics and pursued a coherent counterinsurgency strategy instead of militarizing and Americanizing the struggle."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Capt. Robert H. Whitlow |
Publisher | : Pickle Partners Publishing |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2016-08-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 178720085X |
This is the first of a series of chronological histories prepared by the Marine Corps History and Museums Division to cover the entire span of Marine Corps involvement in the Vietnam conflict. This particular volume covers a relatively obscure chapter in U.S. Marine Corps history—the activities of Marines in Vietnam between 1954 and 1964. The narrative traces the evolution of those activities from a one-man advisory operation at the conclusion of the French-Indochina War in 1954 to the advisory and combat support activities of some 700 Marines at the end of 1964. As the introductory volume for the series this account has an important secondary objective: to establish a geographical, political, and military foundation upon which the subsequent histories can be developed.
Author | : Douglas Pike |
Publisher | : Cambridge, Mass. : M.I.T. Press |
Total Pages | : 530 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : Vietnam War, 1961-1975 |
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The Organization and techniques of the National Liberation Front Of South Vietnam.