Rural Pacification in Vietnam
Title | Rural Pacification in Vietnam PDF eBook |
Author | William A. Nighswonger |
Publisher | New York, Praeger |
Pages | 354 |
Release | 1966 |
Genre | Community development |
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Vietnam Declassified
Title | Vietnam Declassified PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas L. Ahern |
Publisher | University Press of Kentucky |
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
Rural Pacification in Vietnam
Title | Rural Pacification in Vietnam PDF eBook |
Author | John Lamperti |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1966 |
Genre | |
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Pacification
Title | Pacification PDF eBook |
Author | Richard A Hunt |
Publisher | Routledge |
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.
Rural Pacification in Vietnam
Title | Rural Pacification in Vietnam PDF eBook |
Author | William Asa Nighswonger |
Publisher | |
Pages | 394 |
Release | 1970 |
Genre | Communism |
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Impact of Pacification on Insurgency in South Vietnam
Title | Impact of Pacification on Insurgency in South Vietnam PDF eBook |
Author | R. W. Komer |
Publisher | |
Pages | 406 |
Release | 1970 |
Genre | Fortification |
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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).
CIA and Rural Pacification in South Vietnam (U)
Title | CIA and Rural Pacification in South Vietnam (U) PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas L. Ahern |
Publisher | |
Pages | 430 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Vietnam |
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