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The Strategic Hamlet Program "aimed to condense South Vietnam’s roughly 16 000 hamlets (each estimated to have a population of slightly less than 1000) into about 12000 strategic hamlets”. [36] Hilsman proposed that each strategic hamlet be protected by a self-defense group of 75 to 100 armed men.
The Strategic Hamlet Program effectively ended in November 1963 when the Diem government was overthrown by the army and Diem was killed. Most of the hamlets were subsequently abandoned and peasants moved back to their old homes. [8] The Strategic Hamlet Program highlighted the schism in U.S. policy that would continue throughout the Vietnam War.
Operation Sunrise was the first operation in the strategic hamlet program, carried out by ARVN with U.S. advice and transport assistance in the Bến Cát region of the Bình Dương province, 25 miles (40 km) north of Saigon. The plan was to kill or expel VC guerrillas and relocate the rural people to four strategic hamlets.
Operation Sunrise was the first phase of a long-range South Vietnamese counter-offensive against the Việt Cộng (VC) during the Vietnam War.Launched with the United States in March 1962, the goal of the operation was to "clear the VC from an area 40 miles northwest of Saigon" according to contemporary U.S. government documents. [1]
President Joe Biden on Sept. 10 visited Vietnam at Hanoi to strengthen ties and, perhaps, to add to the Pacific partnerships to balance China.
McNamara in South Vietnam requested to visit a district of the country in which the former Diệm government of South Vietnam claimed 18 strategic hamlets were located; he discovered than none of the 18 existed. McNamara had gone from being optimistic about the progress of the war in October to pessimistic in December. [15]: 89 21 December
The Vietnam War (1 November 1955 [A 1] – 30 April 1975) was an armed conflict in Vietnam, ... The Strategic Hamlet Program was initiated in late 1961. This joint U ...
President Joe Biden on Sept. 10 visited Vietnam at Hanoi to strengthen ties and, perhaps, to add to the Pacific partnerships to balance China. James W. Pfister: Vietnam: from enemy to ‘strategic ...