Hunting the Viet Cong: Volume 2: The Fall of Diem and the Collapse of the Strategic Hamlets 1961-1964

"Poole gives many examples of how the Viet Cong gained control of rural areas." — The VVA Veteran

In the early 1960s, the American-backed South Vietnamese government began an aggressive counterinsurgency program aimed at eliminating the Viet Cong. The policy – known as the Strategic Hamlet Program – seriously hurt and ‘cut up’ the VC.

The second volume in this series, Hunting the Viet Cong: The Fall of Diem and the Collapse of the Strategic Hamlets, 1961–64 looks at why the strategy ultimatel...