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Phoenix and the Birds of Prey: Counterinsurgency and Counterterrorism in Vietnam

Phoenix and the Birds of Prey: Counterinsurgency and Counterterrorism in Vietnam


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This study explodes prevailing myths about the Phoenix Program, the CIA's top-secret effort to destroy the Viet Cong by neutralizing its "civilian" leaders. Drawing on recently declassified documents and interviews with American, South Vietnamese, and North Vietnamese sources, Mark Moyar examines the attempts to eradicate the Viet Cong infrastructure and analyzes their effectiveness. He addresses misconceptions about these efforts and provides an accurate, complete picture of the allies' decapitation of the Viet Cong shadow government. Combining social and political history with a study of military operations, Moyar offers a fresh interpretation of the crucial role the shadow government played in the Viet Cong's ascent. Detailed accounts of intelligence operations provide an insider's view of their development and reveal what really happened in the safe havens of the Viet Cong. Filled with new information, Moyar's study sets the record straight about one of the last secrets of the Vietnam War and offers poignant lessons for dealing with future Third World insurgencies. This Bison Books edition includes a new preface and chapter by the author.



Table of Contents:
Preface to the Bison Books EditionForeword, by Col. Harry G. Summers, Jr., USA (Ret.)PrefaceAcknowledgmentsPART ONE ORIGINS1 Vietnam at War: Before Phoenix2 The Shadow Government and the Viet Cong3 The Shadow Government and the People4 The War against the Shadow Government: Before Phoenix5 The New Attack on the Shadow GovernmentPART TWO INTELLIGENCE6 Targets7 Informants and Agents8 Prisoners: Interrogation, Torture, and Execution9 Ralliers, Documents, and Photographs10 MisinformationPART THREE COORDINATION11 The Challenge: Phoenix Centers12 Attempts to Make Phoenix and Phung Hoang Work13 Other Intelligence and Operations CoordinationPART FOUR OPERATIONS14 The Nature of Operations15 The Birds of Prey16 The South Vietnamese17 The Americans18 Neutralization of Non-Communist Civilians19 AssassinationsPART FIVE DAMAGE INFLICTED ON THE SHADOW GOVERNMENT20 Neutralization Statistics21 Actual Viet Cong Cadre Losses22 Additional Setbacks for the Shadow Government23 The Shadow Government in DeclinePART SIX VILLAGER ATTITUDES24 Abuse of the Population25 Changing Attitudes26 The Impact of the New AttitudesPART SEVEN POSTLUDE27 Theories of Revolutionary Warfare28 Reflections29 Lessons LearnedGlossaryNotes Selected BibliographyIndex

About the Author :
Mark Moyar is an associate professor at the U.S. Marine Corps University in Quantico, Virginia, and the author of Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954–1965. Harry G. Summers Jr. (1932–99) served in both the Korean War and the Vietnam War and was an instructor and distinguished fellow at the Strategic Studies Institute at the U.S. Army War College.

Review :
"A groundbreaking piece of revisionist history on the war." Senator James Webb, Wall Street Journal "Phoenix and the Birds of Prey is the definitive work on the Phoenix program to date, and will remain so for a long time." Periscope "[Moyar] succeeds admirably. His work could be a textbook for the do's and don'ts of counterinsurgency warfare." William Nester, Asian Thought and Society


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780803216020
  • Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Bison Books
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 496
  • Sub Title: Counterinsurgency and Counterterrorism in Vietnam
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0803216025
  • Publisher Date: 10 Dec 2007
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • No of Pages: 496
  • Weight: 698 gr


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