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    The Civilian Irregular Defense Group (CIDG, pronounced /ˈsɪdʒiː/, SID-jee; Vietnamese: Lực lượng Dân sự chiến đấu) was a military program developed by...
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    1919–1940) Home Guard (Unionist), during the American Civil War Civilian Irregular Defense Group program (1961-1970) during the Vietnam War Confederate Home Guard...
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  • consisting of six and then later twelve five-man CIDG (Civilian Irregular Defense Group program) teams. A Security Company consisting of 124 Nungs. Bomb...
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    retake captured regions. Later during Vietnamization the Civilian Irregular Defense Group program was transferred from MACV and integrated as Border Battalions...
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    Said variant Paraguay Sweden United States South Vietnam: Civilian Irregular Defense Group program and ARVN Ukraine Zaire: used Port Said variant Madsen M-50...
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    States during World War II and by Special Forces and their Civilian Irregular Defense Group program at the beginning of the Vietnam War. Vietnam: Captured...
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    unconventional warfare in which small groups of irregular military, such as rebels, partisans, paramilitary personnel or armed civilians, which may include recruited...
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    or by a combination of civil affairs and other forces. Civilian Irregular Defense Group program (historical) Paramilitary Canadian Department of National...
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    soldiers selected and trained through the largely minority Civilian Irregular Defense Group (CIDG) and were led by American Special Forces and Australian...
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    sent with the Army's Special Forces in the CIA funded Civilian Irregular Defense Group program (CIDG)" in the years 1963–1965. By 1965 the U.S. Army had...
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    to the FANK and transporting 3–4,000 ethnic Cambodian Civilian Irregular Defense Group program (CIDG) troops to Phnom Penh.: 32  On April 20 the PAVN...
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    of Vietnam (ARVN) Battle of Kampot Cambodian Civil War Civilian Irregular Defense Group program (CIDG) Kampuchea Revolutionary Army Kampuchean People's...
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  • Green Beret and served another tour leading and training a Civilian Irregular Defense Group along the Cambodian border, earning four Bronze Stars, an Army...
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    defended by the 5th Special Forces Detachment A-215 and Civilian Irregular Defense Group program (CIDG) forces. On 3 August a force of Army of the Republic...
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    the first Civilian Irregular Defense Group program (CIDG) unit at the base in 1961. The base was later used by the 5th Special Forces Group Detachment...
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    defended by the 5th Special Forces Detachment A-102 and Civilian Irregular Defense Group program (CIDG) forces. The base was secured the following morning...
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  • such as effects-based operations, network-centric warfare, and irregular warfare and civilian-military concepts. Originally a U.S. Army concept, Project Scorpion...
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    they returned fire with small arms and automatic weapons. Civilian Irregular Defense Group program (CIDG) troops were landed in the area and made contact...
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  • of Php 4,500.00 (about US$92.43). Integrated Civilian Home Defense Forces Civilian Irregular Defense Group The Philippine Army Public Affairs Office, The...
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    more than 400 Civilian Irregular Defense Group program (CIDG) soldiers — local Montagnard irregulars, mostly members of the Jarai ethnic group, many of which...
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    weather: 6  and now functioned as a training centre for Civilian Irregular Defense Group program (CIDG) personnel, reconnaissance of enemy movements, and combat...
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    which was defended by the 5th Special Forces Group Detachment A-215 and Civilian Irregular Defense Group program (CIDG) forces. On 3 August a force of ARVN...
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    to civilian infrastructure and blockading military resupply are used to decrease the morale of government forces. The U.S. Department of Defense defines...
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    personnel for 40 of the new companies coming from deactivated Civilian Irregular Defense Group program (CIDG) units. As in 1965, Westmoreland felt that the JGS...
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  • United States Secretary of Defense to spend a maximum of $100 million a year to "support to foreign forces, irregular forces, groups, or individuals engaged...
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    of the Civilian Irregular Defense Group program (CIDG).: 15–6  10 November Kennedy approved a "selective and carefully controlled joint program of defoliant...
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  • Battalions, 503rd Infantry, plus an ARVN battalion and some Civilian Irregular Defense Group program (CIDG) soldiers, but the 3rd Division avoided contact for...
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  • the Bosnian War, was part of the original planning of the program. According to a 1997 Defense Monitor brief, the Marines were facing the burden of excessive...
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    civilian careerists but he was a hero to many young civilian and military officers who understood the limits of conventional warfare in the irregular...
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    Army's Special Forces in the CIA funded Civilian Irregular Defense Group program (CIDG)". In June the program gave STAT 1104 another Special Forces assignment...
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