Hunting The Viet Cong The Strategic Hamlet Programme 1961 1963

Author : Darren Poole
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Download or read book Hunting the Viet Cong: The Strategic Hamlet Programme, 1961-1963 written by Darren Poole and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Asia@War
ISBN 13 : 9781915070630
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hunting the Viet Cong -- The Counterinsurgency Campaign in South Vietnam, 1961-1963: Volume 1: The Strategic Hamlet Programme written by Darren Poole and published by Asia@War. This book was released on 2022-09-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
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Download or read book Hunting the Viet Cong: The fall of Diem and the collapse of the Strategic Hamlets, 1961-1964 written by Darren Poole and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Vietnam (Republic). Nha tổng giám-đốc thông-tin
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Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Viet Nam's Strategic Hamlets written by Vietnam (Republic). Nha tổng giám-đốc thông-tin and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Geoffrey C. Stewart
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108210465
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vietnam's Lost Revolution written by Geoffrey C. Stewart and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-24 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Darren Poole
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ISBN 13 : 9781804510186
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hunting the Viet Cong Volume 2 written by Darren Poole and published by . This book was released on 2022-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

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Total Pages : 856 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Foreign Relations of the United States, 1961-1963: Vietnam, 1962 written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gregory A. Daddis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199830711
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book No Sure Victory written by Gregory A. Daddis and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conventional wisdom holds that the US Army in Vietnam, thrust into an unconventional war where occupying terrain was a meaningless measure of success, depended on body counts as its sole measure of military progress. In No Sure Victory, Army officer and historian Gregory Daddis looks far deeper into the Army's techniques for measuring military success and presents a much more complicated-and disturbing-account of the American misadventure in Indochina. Daddis shows how the US Army, which confronted an unfamiliar enemy and an even more unfamiliar form of warfare, adopted a massive, and eventually unmanageable, system of measurements and formulas to track the progress of military operations that ranged from pacification efforts to search-and-destroy missions. The Army's monthly "Measurement of Progress" reports covered innumerable aspects of the fighting in Vietnam-force ratios, Vietcong/North Vietnamese Army incidents, tactical air sorties, weapons losses, security of base areas and roads, population control, area control, and hamlet defenses. Concentrating more on data collection and less on data analysis, these indiscriminate attempts to gauge success may actually have hindered the army's ability to evaluate the true outcome of the fight at hand--a roadblock that Daddis believes significantly contributed to the many failures that American forces suffered in Vietnam. Filled with incisive analysis and rich historical detail, No Sure Victory is not only a valuable case study in unconventional warfare, but a cautionary tale that offers important perspectives on how to measure performance in current and future armed conflict. Given America's ongoing counterinsurgency efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan, No Sure Victory provides valuable historical perspective on how to measure--and mismeasure--military success.

Author : United States. Department of State
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 862 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Foreign Relations of the United States written by United States. Department of State and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 862 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William M. Hammond
Publisher : Government Printing Office
ISBN 13 : 9780160016738
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Public Affairs written by William M. Hammond and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 1988 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: United States Army in Vietnam. CMH Pub. 91-13. Draws upon previously unavailable Army and Defense Department records to interpret the part the press played during the Vietnam War. Discusses the roles of the following in the creation of information policy: Military Assistance Command's Office of Information in Saigon; White House; State Department; Defense Department; and the United States Embassy in Saigon.