For more than thirty years the mere mention of the Phoenix Program, the CIA's top-secret effort to destroy the Viet Cong by neutralizing its "civilian" leaders, has conjured up dark images of secret assassinations, kidnappings, and the torture of civilians by the South Vietnamese and their U.S. advisers. This study explodes many of the prevailing myths and perceptions of the program and the myriad efforts that until now have been mistakenly lumped together under the term Phoenix. Drawing on recently declassified documents and interviews with more than one hundred U.S., South Vietnamese, and…mehr
For more than thirty years the mere mention of the Phoenix Program, the CIA's top-secret effort to destroy the Viet Cong by neutralizing its "civilian" leaders, has conjured up dark images of secret assassinations, kidnappings, and the torture of civilians by the South Vietnamese and their U.S. advisers. This study explodes many of the prevailing myths and perceptions of the program and the myriad efforts that until now have been mistakenly lumped together under the term Phoenix. Drawing on recently declassified documents and interviews with more than one hundred U.S., South Vietnamese, and North Vietnamese sources, Mark Moyar dissects the various attempts to eradicate the Viet Cong infrastructure and analyzes the effectiveness of each. With balance and full documentation, he addresses serious misconceptions about these efforts and provides the most accurate and complete picture available of the allies' decapitation of the Viet Cong shadow government.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
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.
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Preface to the Bison Books Edition Foreword, by Col. Harry G. Summers, Jr., USA (Ret.) Preface Acknowledgments PART ONE ORIGINS 1 Vietnam at War: Before Phoenix 2 The Shadow Government and the Viet Cong 3 The Shadow Government and the People 4 The War against the Shadow Government: Before Phoenix 5 The New Attack on the Shadow Government PART TWO INTELLIGENCE 6 Targets 7 Informants and Agents 8 Prisoners: Interrogation, Torture, and Execution 9 Ralliers, Documents, and Photographs 10 Misinformation PART THREE COORDINATION 11 The Challenge: Phoenix Centers 12 Attempts to Make Phoenix and Phung Hoang Work 13 Other Intelligence and Operations Coordination PART FOUR OPERATIONS 14 The Nature of Operations 15 The Birds of Prey 16 The South Vietnamese 17 The Americans 18 Neutralization of Non-Communist Civilians 19 Assassinations PART FIVE DAMAGE INFLICTED ON THE SHADOW GOVERNMENT 20 Neutralization Statistics 21 Actual Viet Cong Cadre Losses 22 Additional Setbacks for the Shadow Government 23 The Shadow Government in Decline PART SIX VILLAGER ATTITUDES 24 Abuse of the Population 25 Changing Attitudes 26 The Impact of the New Attitudes PART SEVEN POSTLUDE 27 Theories of Revolutionary Warfare 28 Reflections 29 Lessons Learned Glossary Notes Selected Bibliography Index
Preface to the Bison Books Edition Foreword, by Col. Harry G. Summers, Jr., USA (Ret.) Preface Acknowledgments PART ONE ORIGINS 1 Vietnam at War: Before Phoenix 2 The Shadow Government and the Viet Cong 3 The Shadow Government and the People 4 The War against the Shadow Government: Before Phoenix 5 The New Attack on the Shadow Government PART TWO INTELLIGENCE 6 Targets 7 Informants and Agents 8 Prisoners: Interrogation, Torture, and Execution 9 Ralliers, Documents, and Photographs 10 Misinformation PART THREE COORDINATION 11 The Challenge: Phoenix Centers 12 Attempts to Make Phoenix and Phung Hoang Work 13 Other Intelligence and Operations Coordination PART FOUR OPERATIONS 14 The Nature of Operations 15 The Birds of Prey 16 The South Vietnamese 17 The Americans 18 Neutralization of Non-Communist Civilians 19 Assassinations PART FIVE DAMAGE INFLICTED ON THE SHADOW GOVERNMENT 20 Neutralization Statistics 21 Actual Viet Cong Cadre Losses 22 Additional Setbacks for the Shadow Government 23 The Shadow Government in Decline PART SIX VILLAGER ATTITUDES 24 Abuse of the Population 25 Changing Attitudes 26 The Impact of the New Attitudes PART SEVEN POSTLUDE 27 Theories of Revolutionary Warfare 28 Reflections 29 Lessons Learned Glossary Notes Selected Bibliography Index
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