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Pacification - The American Struggle For Vietnam's Hearts And Minds (Paperback, Revised)
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Pacification - The American Struggle For Vietnam's Hearts And Minds (Paperback, Revised)
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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.
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