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In his book Vietnam: a History (Viking,1983) Stanley Karnow describes his observations: In the last week of November . . I drove south from Saigon into Long An, a province in the Mekong Delta, the rice basket of South Vietnam where 40 per cent of the population lived. There I found the strategic hamlet program begun during the Diem regime in ...
Approximate zones of control in South Vietnam at the time of the signing of the Paris Peace Accords, January 1973.. Hearts and Minds or winning hearts and minds refers to the strategy and programs used by the governments of South Vietnam and the United States during the Vietnam War to win the popular support of the Vietnamese people and to help defeat the Viet Cong insurgency.
Counterinsurgency (COIN, or NATO spelling counter-insurgency [1]) is "the totality of actions aimed at defeating irregular forces". [2] The Oxford English Dictionary defines counterinsurgency as any "military or political action taken against the activities of guerrillas or revolutionaries" [3] and can be considered war by a state against a non-state adversary. [4]
The Combined Action Program was a United States Marine Corps counterinsurgency tool during the Vietnam War.It was widely remembered by the Marine Corps as effective. Operating from 1965 to 1971, it placed a 13-member Marine rifle squad, augmented by a U.S. Navy Corpsman and strengthened by a Vietnamese militia platoon of older youth and elderly men, in or adjacent to a rural Vietnames
During the Vietnam protests, one might have seen a counter-protester calling demonstrators commies. By the 1970s, most Americans opposed the war (though an awful lot also opposed the protests ...
The Studies and Observation Group, as the unit was initially titled, was in fact controlled by the Special Assistant for Counterinsurgency and Special Activities (SACSA) and his staff at the Pentagon. a This arrangement was necessary since SOG needed some listing in the MACV table of organization and the fact that MACV's commander, General ...
The NLF, also known as the Viet Cong (VC), was an umbrella of front groups, set up by North Vietnam (Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV) to conduct the insurgency in South Vietnam. The NLF also included fully armed formations – regional and local guerrillas, and the People's Liberation Armed Forces (PLAF).
Johann Teran, a Venezuelan in the United States on humanitarian parole, speaks about the new uncertainties for migrants since the Trump administration has canceled humanitarian protections, at his ...