Download or read book The Communist Insurgent Infrastructure in South Vietnam written by Michael Charles Conley and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study seeks to achieve three major goals. First, it attempts to describe the infrastructure of the Communist-dominated insurgency in South Vietnam which evolved during the period 1954-1965. Second, in the light of the organizational composition of that movement, it analyzes the strategy pursued by the insurgents on the political, sociopsychological, economic, and paramilitary levels in their effort to displace the formal government of the country with the agencies of a new administrative structure upon which a future totalitarian regime might be constructed. Last, the study attempts to place the more conventionally military content of the conflict in context by examining it in terms of the spectrum of organizations and highly varied activities which collectively constitute the reality of the threat that has been generated in the course of the last decade.

Download or read book The Communist Insurgent Infrastructure in South Vietnam a Study of Organization and Strategy Appendices written by Michael Charles Conley and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Appendix A is an extended essay on the general subjects of Communist Party organization, inner-party practices, and the historic origins of current Communist insurgency doctrine. Appendices B through I are verbatim translations of selected captured documents of the South Vietnamese insurgents, and include the following documents: The regulations of the Communist Party and Communist Youth Organization in South Vietnam; the constitution of the Vietnam Labor Party; regulations of the Vietnamese People's Revolutionary Youth Group; the regulations of the South Vietnam Vanguard Youth; the admission procedure and self-criticism of Communist Party members; an application for admission into the party; a recommendation for admission into the party; self-critiques of party members; a list of Communist-controlled mass organizations in South Vietnam; the regulations of the National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam; the Liberated Labor Association's Program and Statute; the By-laws of the Association of Liberated Youth of South Vietnam; a summarized program and Regulations of the Liberated Farmers' Association of South Vietnam; details of organization and propaganda indoctrination sections at various levels; ideological and political selections; a document on future propaganda and indoctrination tasks in towns; study documents for rural party members of the Dang Lao Dong; an essay on the five steps in conducting a revolution; recorded experiences in turning a village into a 'combatant village'; a NFLSVN commendation letter; a form of monthly report; and a report of the strength of the Village Liberation Youth Association. (Author).

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Download or read book The Communist Insurgent Infrastructure in South Vietnam a Study of Organization and Strategy Volume i written by and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of the dynamics of the Communist movement in South Vietnam presupposes a thorough grasp of organizational issues, since one is dealing here with a form of subversion that is implemented through the agencies of a highly disciplined bureaucracy, staffed in its critical offices with party members. Regarding the structure of the movement, distinctions are made among three major echelons: the party apparatus, based upon a cellularly ordered hierarchy of committees; the civil organization, embracing mass associations and the federated fronts erected over them; and the armed elements, domestically activated or infiltrated across international borders. In the light of an understanding of both the structure and functions performed by these several hierarchies, the larger issues of grand strategy and tactics, political and military, are examined. The work is completed with an investigation of the Saigon-Cholon-Gia Dinh area, in which the several factors, examined in succession in the earlier portions of the work, are integrated into a single statement. The study argues that the goal of the subversive movement is not tactical military success on the battlefield, but the progressive extension of de facto controls over the civil population, and that success in this political endeavor is dependent upon the party's ability to sustain its controls over the extra-party bodies activated. The failure to place the destruction of this organization at the center of counterinsurgent planning, consequently, would substantially vitiate such positive accomplishments of a collateral nature as might be attained. (Author).

Download or read book Communist Insurgent Infrastructure in South Vietnam A Study of Organization and Strategy written by Conley and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Communist Insurgent Infrastructure in South Vietnam written by Michael Charles Conley and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book To Build as Well as Destroy written by Andrew J. Gawthorpe and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-12-15 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For years, the so-called better-war school of thought has argued that the United States built a legitimate and viable non-Communist state in South Vietnam in the latter years of the Vietnam War and that it was only the military abandonment of this state that brought down the Republic of Vietnam. But Andrew J. Gawthorpe, through a detailed and incisive analysis, shows that, in fact, the United States failed in its efforts at nation building and had not established a durable state in South Vietnam. Drawing on newly opened archival collections and previously unexamined oral histories with dozens of U.S. military officers and government officials, To Build as Well as Destroy demonstrates that the United States never came close to achieving victory in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Gawthorpe tells a story of policy aspirations and practical failures that stretches from Washington, D.C., to the Vietnamese villages in which the United States implemented its nationbuilding strategy through the Office of Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development Support known as CORDS. Structural factors that could not have been overcome by the further application of military power thwarted U.S. efforts to build a viable set of non-Communist political, economic, and social institutions in South Vietnam. To Build as Well as Destroy provides the most comprehensive account yet of the largest and best-resourced nation-building program in U.S. history. Gawthorpe's analysis helps contemporary policy makers, diplomats, and military officers understand the reasons for this failure. At a moment in time when American strategists are grappling with military and political challenges in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria, revisiting the historical lessons of Vietnam is a worthy endeavor.

Download or read book The Village War written by William R. Andrews and published by Columbia : University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 1973 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An account of the Vietnamese Communist revolutionary activity in Dinh Tuong Province - Mekondeltaet in the period 1960 - 64, the book contains further aspects of psychological warfare and guerrilla activity."--Books.google.com.

Download or read book Strategic Hamlets in South Vietnam written by Milton E. Osborne and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The strategic hamlet program in South Vietnam deserves careful consideration in light of the fact that war had been the central fact of many Vietnamese lives for many years. This paper delineates both the development of the program and studies the effect that the seemingly similar Communist insurrection in Malaysia (known as the Malayan Emergency) had upon American dealings with the insurgency in South Vietnam. Osborne, in one fascinating and revealing chapter, presents the commentary of both the Allied and North Vietnamese officials upon the successes and failures, real or perceived, of this program. An illuminating, focused, and important work.

Download or read book Defeat of the Communist Insurgent in South Vietnam written by Gene A. Earlywine and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Summary: The success or failure of an insurgent force depends on factors such as outside sponsorship, local civilian support, and favorable regional politics. Without these factors there is no chance of success. Let's examine these support factors individually to determine exactly how they affect the insurgent, specifically in Vietnam guerrilla warfare.

Download or read book The Phoenix Program and Contemporary Counterinsurgency written by William Rosenau and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern-day advocates of the Phoenix Program argue that it was devastatingly effective against the Viet Cong infrastructure during the Vietnam War, but detractors condemn it as a merciless assassination campaign. The authors provide a fresh assessment of the program and identify aspects that are relevant for contemporary counterinsurgency.

Download or read book The Communist Movement in South Vietnam written by Michael Charles Conley and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Popular Mobilization During Revolutionary and Resistance Wars written by Adam Schesch and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Roles of Paramilitary Forces in the Vietnamese Insurgency 1960 1965 written by and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This case study begins with a discussion of the Communist insurgent organizational structure in the Republic of South Vietnam. The purpose for this review was to bring into focus the basic problems the South Vietnamese government forces faced in combatting the insurgent movement. Paramilitary forces are ideally suited to combat insurgency at the base of its very strength- -the populace. Paramilitary forces are found at this 'grass roots' level and if properly motivated, equipped, and led can materially aid in the total counterinsurgency effort. In Vietnam the Popular Forces, Regional Forces and to a lesser extent, the Civilian Irregular Defense Group were not integrated into the total military effort during the period covered by this study. Responsibility for this failure can be traced: (1) to the early USMAAG concepts that internal security was a police function, and (2) to training the ARVN to fight a conventional war.

Download or read book The U S Marine Corps Combined Action Program CAP A Proposed Alternative Strategy for the Vietnam War written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Vietnam War was a war against an insurgency sustained by the resources drawn from the South Vietnamese peasant. The CAP offered a viable alternative to the strategy taken in Vietnam, challenging the sustaining infrastructure of the guerrilla, while providing security for the largely agrarian populace. Discussion: Taking a lesson from Mao Tse-tung's insurgent rise to power in an agrarian setting, Ho Chi Minh and General Vo Nguyen Giap implemented a guerrilla-based strategy to liberate and unify Vietnam. Placing heavy reliance on the populace of South Vietnam to provide both men and food for the NVA and VC, the village represented a center of gravity for the Communist movement. Incapable of viewing Vietnam as anything but a conventional battleground, General William C. Westmoreland applied the unsuccessful strategy of "search and destroy," and wholly ignored the insurgent underpinnings of his enemy and their grip on the populace. Possessing a belief that the war was among the people, the Marines spawned combined action, that of combining a Marine rifle squad with a platoon of South Vietnamese Popular Forces who cohabitated together within a particular village. Never growing beyond 2,500 men and 114 platoons, the program achieved unsurpassed% success towards providing security for the populace, threatening the guerrilla infrastructure, empowering the local and regional leaders to govern, and killing the enemy. Additionally, all attempts by senior Marine leaders to convince General Westmoreland of the CAP's validity as a fitting strategy for all ground forces failed to overcome his conventional inclination towards the nature of the war.