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