Vietnam Declassified
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Vietnam Declassified

The CIA and Counterinsurgency

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Vietnam Declassified

The CIA and Counterinsurgency

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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

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Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky
Year
2009
ISBN
9780813139333
Topic
Historia
Subtopic
Guerra de Vietnam

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. List of Maps and Illustrations
  6. Foreword by Donald P. Gregg
  7. Preface
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Abbreviations
  10. Introduction: To Build a Nation
  11. Chapter 1: “The Effort Must Be Made”
  12. Chapter 2: “Get Them before They Get Us”
  13. Chapter 3: Counterinsurgency in the Central Highlands
  14. Chapter 4: Sea Swallows and Strategic Hamlets
  15. Chapter 5: Operation Switchback
  16. Chapter 6: Experiments in the Lowlands
  17. Chapter 7: The Kien Hoa Incubator
  18. Chapter 8: The People’s Action Team
  19. Chapter 9: Another Chance in the Countryside
  20. Chapter 10: Growing Pains
  21. Chapter 11: CORDS
  22. Chapter 12: Phoenix
  23. Chapter 13: The 1968 Tet Offensive and Accelerated Pacification
  24. Chapter 14: Disengagement
  25. Chapter 15: A Matter of Running City Hall
  26. Conclusion: The Limits of Pragmatism
  27. Notes
  28. Selected Bibliography
  29. Index