The Strategic Hamlet Program (SHP; Vietnamese: Ấp Chiến lược ) was a plan by the government of South Vietnam in conjunction with the US government and...

several assassination and coup attempts, and in 1962 established the Strategic Hamlet Program as the cornerstone of his counterinsurgency effort. In 1963, Diệm's...

Ngôs in February 1962. In 1962, Nhu began work on the ambitious Strategic Hamlet Program, which was informed by his philosophy of Personalism. The problem...

program was implemented too rapidly and without popular support and many or most hamlets fell under Viet Cong control. The Strategic Hamlet Program effectively...

South Vietnam. In 1962, he was made overseer of Ngô Đình Nhu's Strategic Hamlet Program in South Vietnam and deliberately forced it forward at an unsustainable...

They're not adopting the program the President has recommended, our own military are not. Diem has turned the strategic-hamlet program over to Nhu, who's taken...

President Ngô Đình Diệm. Diệm created the Strategic Hamlet Program as his top priority to defeat the VC. The program intended to cluster South Vietnam's rural...

of "strategic hamlets" was formulated as a part of Operation Sunrise, with the operation acting as a 'test area' for the Strategic Hamlet Program which...

Commitments, 1961–1963 (5 Vols.) 1. The Kennedy Commitments and Programs, 1961 2. Strategic Hamlet Program, 1961–63 3. The Advisory Build-up, 1961–67 4. Phased Withdrawal...

one of the justifications given in the Pentagon Papers for the Strategic Hamlet Program. Cordon and search is a military tactic, one of the basic counterinsurgency...

number of American military advisers in South Vietnam, and the Strategic Hamlet Program began during his presidency. In 1961, he authorized attempts to...

Chien Thang (Struggle for Victory) pacification program was less ambitious than the Strategic Hamlet program, envisioning a gradual expansion, like an "oil...

paper, the U.S. needed to reexamine its strategy focused on the Strategic Hamlet Program, since it was getting much more accurate — if pessimistic — from...

Embassy official Rufus Phillips, who was the US adviser to Nhu's Strategic Hamlet Program, said that "I wanted to sit down and cry", citing the killings...

ideology worked out in three major programs the Alliance for Progress, the Peace Corps, and the strategic hamlet program in South Vietnam. However, Latham...

launch an attack on the position. Rules of engagement Area bombing Strategic Hamlet Program Search and destroy Yeager, Chuck; Janos, Leo (1986-08-01). Yeager:...

military strategies, as in the case of garrison towns, America's Strategic Hamlet Program during the Vietnam War, and Israeli settlements in Palestine. While...

protracted United States presence in Southeast Asia. A highly classified program of covert actions against North Vietnam, known as Operation Plan 34-Alpha...

He argued that many of the tactics employed (for example the Strategic Hamlet Program of relocation) further alienated the population and were counterproductive...

Vietnam and the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, including the Strategic Hamlet Program, the Stanley-Taylor plan, the Plan for Rural Pacification, the...

Marine corporal, founder of the Vietnam Program at the Harvard Kennedy School George Wickes, Office of Strategic Services James Willbanks, ARVN advisor...

personnel there.: 131  The Strategic Hamlet Program was initiated in late 1961. This joint U.S.–South Vietnamese program attempted to resettle the rural...

consolidation of the Strategic Hamlet Program with the emphasis on security; The fleshing out of combat units and better training and arms for the hamlet militia....

this program would convince the peasants to become increasingly loyal to the South Vietnamese government, however, the Strategic Hamlet Program was a...

192. During the My Lai Massacre on 16 March 1968 in the South Vietnamese hamlet of Sơn Mỹ, Sơn Tịnh District, between 347 and 504 unarmed men, women and...

of President Diệm and presented a report to Diệm recommending a Strategic Hamlet Program to defeat the VC. Thompson would be an important adviser to the...

defeat communist insurgents during the Malayan Emergency, the U.S. "Strategic Hamlet Program" in the Vietnam War and the "protected villages" strategy adopted...

(Sosyaldemokrat Halkçı Parti), 1985-1995 State Highway Patrol Strategic Hamlet Program, during Vietnam War Swanson Health Products, US Qinhuangdao Shanhaiguan...

deliberately fomenting infighting among the officers and mismanaging the Strategic Hamlet Program in order to destabilise the Saigon government. Tuyến's group had...

Ngô Đình Nhu and later resurrected under another name was the "Strategic Hamlet Program" which was regarded as unsuccessful by Western media because it...