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The Control War - The Struggle for South Vietnam, 1968-1975 (Hardcover)
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The Control War - The Struggle for South Vietnam, 1968-1975 (Hardcover)
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The Vietnam War - a conflict defined by an ever-evolving mixture of
conventional and guerrilla warfare and mass politics - has often
been called a ""war without fronts."" In fact, Vietnam had a
multitude of fronts, as insurgents and counterinsurgents wrestled
for control throughout 44 provinces, 250 districts, and more than
11,000 hamlets. In The Control War, Martin G. Clemis focuses on
South Vietnam, where a highly complex politico-military struggle
fragmented the battlefield along countless divergent points of
conflict as both sides sought spatial and political hegemony.
Complicating the conventional view that the Vietnam War was about
winning ""hearts and minds,"" Clemis argues that both sides were
more interested in asserting control over the people - and
resources - of the countryside. As in other revolutionary civil
conflicts, the key to winning political power in South Vietnam was
to control the physical world of territory, population, and
resources, as well as the ideational world of political
organization and long-term legitimacy. Despite their countervailing
purposes, both insurgency and pacification provided the means to
exert this control. Proponents of each approach pursued the same
goals, relying on a blend of military force, political violence,
and socioeconomic policy to achieve them. Revealing the unique
spatiality of the Vietnam War, The Control War analyzes the ways
that both sides of the conflict conceptualized and used geography
and the environment to serve strategic, tactical, and political
ends. Clemis shows us that the operational environment of Vietnam,
both natural and human-made, was far more than a backdrop to two
decades of war.
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