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Author : Stuart E. Methven
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Vietnam
ISBN : IND:32000002340216
Author : Richard A Hunt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429967061
During the Vietnam War, the United States embarked on an unusual crusade on behalf of the government of South Vietnam. Known as the pacification program, it sought to help South Vietnam's government take root and survive as an independent, legitimate entity by defeating communist insurgents and promoting economic development and political reforms. In this book, Richard Hunt provides the first comprehensive history of America's "battle for hearts and minds," the distinctive blending of military and political approaches that took aim at the essence of the struggle between North and South Vietnam.Hunt concentrates on the American role, setting pacification in the larger political context of nation building. He describes the search for the best combination of military and political action, incorporating analysis of the controversial Phoenix program, and illuminates the difficulties the Americans encountered with their sometimes reluctant ally. The author explains how hard it was to get the U.S. Army involved in pacification and shows the struggle to yoke divergent organizations (military, civilian, and intelligence agencies) to serve one common goal. The greatest challenge of all was to persuade a surrogate--the Saigon government--to carry out programs and to make reforms conceived of by American officials.The book concludes with a careful assessment of pacification's successes and failures. Would the Saigon government have flourished if there had been more time to consolidate the gains of pacification? Or was the regime so fundamentally flawed that its demise was preordained by its internal contradictions? This pathbreaking book offers startling and provocative answers to these and other important questions about our Vietnam experience.
Author : Foreign Affairs Research Documentation Center
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : East Asia
ISBN : UCSC:32106002808209
Author : Foreign Affairs Research Documentation Center
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Economic history
ISBN : UIUC:30112045429567
Author : Foreign-Area Research Documentation Center
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Economic history
ISBN : NWU:35556037522968
Author : Ken Post
Publisher : Dartmouth Publishing Company
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015020801588
Author : Stuart E Methven
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781612515762
This memoir of a CIA operations officer captures the spirit of the early years of the Agency, a period sometimes described as its "finest hours." Using the name "St. Martin," Stuart Methven served in the CIA from the 1950s through the 1970s. The book opens by describing the author's training in the clandestine arts and subsequent assignment to Asia in a country he calls "Bushido." There he is involved in numerous operations, including one that takes him under the ocean, and earns his case officer's "brevet." A nation-building program in "Cham" follows, which begins well enough when Methven gains a tribal leader's confidence by parachuting badly needed supplies to his mountain village. It ends abruptly, however, with a coup d'etat and civil war that forces Methven's evacuation, the first of several during his career. His next assignment is in South Vietnam working to counter another budding insurgency. Methven spends four years in the mountain and delta provinces of Vietnam before being given a sabbatical to MIT's School of International Studies. After completing his studies, he returns to Southeast Asia as a deputy station chief with a focus on a large Soviet mission in Samudra and the recruitment of Soviet military officers. Promoted to station chief, his final assignment is in central Africa, where his station becomes center stage for a large covert operation that attracts Soviet and Cuban military intervention. Glimpses of the CIA from the inside are rare, and Methven's recollections of his experiences during a formative period in the Agency's history will be of particular value to those with an interest in the CIA and international affairs—and in spy stories.
Author : Ana Arjona
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107126039
Based on years of fieldwork in Colombia, this is an analysis of rebel institutions and civilian-combatant relations in civil war.
Author : Andrew J. Gawthorpe
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501712098
For years, the so-called better-war school of thought has argued that the United States built a legitimate and viable non-Communist state in South Vietnam in the latter years of the Vietnam War and that it was only the military abandonment of this state that brought down the Republic of Vietnam. But Andrew J. Gawthorpe, through a detailed and incisive analysis, shows that, in fact, the United States failed in its efforts at nation building and had not established a durable state in South Vietnam. Drawing on newly opened archival collections and previously unexamined oral histories with dozens of U.S. military officers and government officials, To Build as Well as Destroy demonstrates that the United States never came close to achieving victory in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Gawthorpe tells a story of policy aspirations and practical failures that stretches from Washington, D.C., to the Vietnamese villages in which the United States implemented its nationbuilding strategy through the Office of Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development Support known as CORDS. Structural factors that could not have been overcome by the further application of military power thwarted U.S. efforts to build a viable set of non-Communist political, economic, and social institutions in South Vietnam. To Build as Well as Destroy provides the most comprehensive account yet of the largest and best-resourced nation-building program in U.S. history. Gawthorpe's analysis helps contemporary policy makers, diplomats, and military officers understand the reasons for this failure. At a moment in time when American strategists are grappling with military and political challenges in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria, revisiting the historical lessons of Vietnam is a worthy endeavor.
Author : Freedom House
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 862 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011-12-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781442209961
Freedom in the World, the Freedom House flagship survey whose findings have been published annually since 1972, is the standard-setting comparative assessment of global political rights and civil liberties. The survey ratings and narrative reports on 194 countries and 14 territories are used by policymakers, the media, international corporations, civic activists, and human rights defenders to monitor trends in democracy and track improvements and setbacks in freedom worldwide. The Freedom in the World political rights and civil liberties ratings are determined through a multi-layered process of research and evaluation by a team of regional analysts and eminent scholars. The analysts used a broad range of sources of information, including foreign and domestic news reports, academic studies, nongovernmental organizations, think tanks, individual professional contacts, and visits to the region, in conducting their research. The methodology of the survey is derived in large measure from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and these standards are applied to all countries and territories, irrespective of geographical location, ethnic or religious composition, or level of economic development.
Author : Eric Michael Wilson,Eric Wilson
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2009-03-15
Category : Law
ISBN : NWU:35556039047535
An expose of what really goes on behind the closed doors of state power
Author : Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for International Studies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Research
ISBN : STANFORD:36105080310282
Author : Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Dissertations, Academic
ISBN : MINN:31951002233157H
Author : Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Dissertations, Academic
ISBN : UCAL:$B619639