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    The Civil Operations and Rural Development Support (CORDS) was a pacification program of the governments of South Vietnam and the United States during...
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    revival of earlier COIN strategies including Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development Support. The US and its allies later implemented the Phoenix Program...
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    Phoenix Program (category Central Intelligence Agency operations)
    of the Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development Support (CORDS). The program, which lasted from 1968 to 1972, was designed to identify and destroy...
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    adviser known for managing Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development Support during the Vietnam War. Born in Chicago, Illinois and raised in St. Louis,...
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  • Relief & Development, a humanitarian organization, based in Leamington Spa, England Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development Support, (CORDS) a...
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  • Platoon (CAP) and 30 Popular Force troops and there were also about 35 Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development Support (CORDS) workers and a small group...
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  • Orbital and Reentry Debris Studies Connecting Organizations for Regional Disease Surveillance Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development Support, a pacification...
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    70s also served in South Vietnam, particularly in Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development Support (CORDS). In 1977, the Carter administration published...
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  • appointed assistant chief of staff of Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development Support (CORDS), the U.S. and South Vietnamese pacification program...
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    Creighton Abrams (category United States Army Command and General Staff College alumni)
    hearts and minds of the Vietnamese rural population. A joint military-civilian organization named Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development Support under...
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  • party), minimize insurgency or civil interference with military operations, and maximize civil support for military operations.[citation needed] CMO is conducted...
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    Command, Vietnam, for Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development Support (CORDS). Eckhardt, George (1974). Vietnam Studies Command and Control 1950–1969...
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  • However, Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development Support (CORDS) advisers differed and in 1967 found "his personal cautiousness and reluctance...
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    the first revolutionary institutions, the Pasdaran helped legitimize the Revolution and gave the new government an armed basis of support. Moreover,...
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  • Army (numbered Armies of U.S. military) CORDS – Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development Support (U.S. military, Vietnam era) COP – Combat Out Post...
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    under the Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development Support (CORDS) command, which was shared between Saigon government, U.S. MACV and the CIA. Among...
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  • employment in rural areas and aligning its operations with broader development goals. The Basij, a volunteer militia under the IRGC, supports many of these projects...
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    integrated civilian-military command structure called Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development Support (CORDS). British colonial officials sometimes referred...
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    John Gunther Dean (category Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni)
    Vietnam where he served as Regional Director for Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development Support (CORDS) until 1972. While in Da Nang, South Vietnam...
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    William A. Knowlton (category United States Army Command and General Staff College alumni)
    Staff and later the Office of the Secretary of Defense. He deployed to Vietnam for two tours of duty where he oversaw Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development...
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    city and headed for a list of targets that included the Montagnard military school, the Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development Support (CORDS)...
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    working in conjunction with civil authorities in psychological operations, propaganda, counter-organizing, so-called "hearts and minds." If the conflict progresses...
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    General William Westmoreland, Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development Support (CORDS) Director Robert Komer and Bunker to discuss specific aspects...
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  • of the Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development Support (CORDS) program in Vietnam. He became an aide to Komer both in the White House and Saigon...
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    United States Army Vietnam (category Military units and formations of the United States Army in the Vietnam War)
    that had handled civil affairs and civic action with an assistant chief of staff for Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development Support. By mid-1967,...
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    operations and airborne and air assault operations), special operations forces, to set and sustain the theater for the joint force, and to integrate national...
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    as military deputy to Robert Komer the head of Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development Support. Forsythe served as commander of the 1st Cavalry...
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    for political reasons, had taken no action. When Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development Support Director Robert Komer tried to enlist the aid of...
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    civilian and wounding eight. The VC attacked an outpost in Tay Ninh Province, killing six civilians and wounding two Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development...
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    conflict forces thousands to flee to Ethiopia". European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations. 1 June 2023. "Monthly Report : Human Rights Situation...
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