Pacification: The American Struggle For Vietnam's Hearts And Minds / Edition 1

Pacification: The American Struggle For Vietnam's Hearts And Minds / Edition 1

by Richard A Hunt
ISBN-10:
0813334594
ISBN-13:
9780813334592
Pub. Date:
02/27/1998
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis
ISBN-10:
0813334594
ISBN-13:
9780813334592
Pub. Date:
02/27/1998
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis
Pacification: The American Struggle For Vietnam's Hearts And Minds / Edition 1

Pacification: The American Struggle For Vietnam's Hearts And Minds / Edition 1

by Richard A Hunt
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Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780813334592
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 02/27/1998
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 371
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.00(d)
Lexile: 1530L (what's this?)

About the Author


Richard A. Hunt received his Ph.D. in history at the University of Pennsylvania. He works at the U.S. Army Center of Military History in Washington, D.C.

Table of Contents

Introduction — An Insurgency Begins — Insurgency Unchecked, 1961–1965 — The War and the "Other War," 1965–1966 — Not by Force Alone: The U.S. Army in Pacification — The Search for Solutions — Unifying American Support of Pacification — The Early Days of CORDS, May-December 1967 — Leverage: CORDS's Quest for Better Performance — The Tet Offensive and Pacification — What Next? — Abrams in Command: Military Support of the APC — The Impact of the APC — New Directions — One War or Business as Usual? — The Phoenix Program: The Best-Laid Plans — The Ambiguous Achievements of Pacification — The End of an Experiment — A Note on Sources
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