Hunting the Viet Cong: Volume 2 - Counterinsurgency in South Vietnam, 1963-1964
Hunting the Viet Cong: Volume 2 - Counterinsurgency in South Vietnam, 1963-1964 In the early 1960s, the American-backed South Vietnamese government began an aggressive counterinsurgency program aimed…
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Hunting the Viet Cong: Volume 2 - Counterinsurgency in South Vietnam, 1963-1964
In the early 1960s, the American-backed South Vietnamese government began an aggressive counterinsurgency program aimed at eliminating the Viet Cong. Focussing on events in South Vietnam, the book exposes Viet Cong atrocities, South Vietnamese corruption and American military and political negligence. The policy - known as the Strategic Hamlet Program - seriously hurt and 'cut up' the VC.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.
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 reveals just how violent and aggressive the Viet Cong were towards their own people. The book also explains how a strategy designed to protect Vietnamese
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