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    The Strategic Hamlet Program (SHP; Vietnamese: Ấp Chiến lược) was implemented in 1962 by the government of South Vietnam, with advice and financing from...
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    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...
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    several assassination and coup attempts, and in 1962 established the Strategic Hamlet Program as the cornerstone of his counterinsurgency effort. In 1963, Diệm's...
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    program was implemented too rapidly and without popular support and many or most hamlets fell under Viet Cong control. The Strategic Hamlet Program effectively...
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    number of American military advisers in South Vietnam, and the Strategic Hamlet Program began during his presidency. In 1961, he authorized attempts to...
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    one of the justifications given in the Pentagon Papers for the Strategic Hamlet Program.[citation needed] Cordon and search is a military tactic, one of...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    Kennedy had put 16,000.: 131  The Strategic Hamlet Program was initiated in late 1961. This joint U.S.–South Vietnamese program attempted to resettle the rural...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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  • Marine corporal, founder of the Vietnam Program at the Harvard Kennedy School George Wickes, Office of Strategic Services James Willbanks, ARVN advisor...
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    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...
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  • defeat communist insurgents during the Malayan Emergency, the U.S. "Strategic Hamlet Program" in the Vietnam War and the "protected villages" strategy adopted...
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  • military has asked people to leave. Rules of engagement Area bombing Strategic Hamlet Program Search and destroy [https://ihl-databases.icrc...
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  • He argued that many of the tactics employed (for example the Strategic Hamlet Program of relocation) further alienated the population and were counterproductive...
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  • (Sosyaldemokrat Halkçı Parti), 1985-1995 State Highway Patrol Strategic Hamlet Program, during Vietnam War Swanson Health Products, US Qinhuangdao Shanhaiguan...
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  • ideology worked out in three major programs: the Alliance for Progress, the Peace Corps, and the strategic hamlet program in South Vietnam. However, Latham...
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    Lukut Machang Bubok Machap Baru Bantustan Planned community Slum Strategic Hamlet Program Villagization Peng, Chin; Ward, Ian; Miralor, Norma (2003). Alias...
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    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....
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    military strategies, as in the case of garrison towns, America's Strategic Hamlet Program during the Vietnam War, and Israeli settlements in Palestine. While...
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    protracted United States presence in Southeast Asia. A highly classified program of covert actions against North Vietnam, known as Operation Plan 34-Alpha...
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  • Vietnam and the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, including the Strategic Hamlet Program, the Stanley-Taylor plan, the Plan for Rural Pacification, the...
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    The United States attempted to replicate the camps with their Strategic Hamlet Program. However, the programme was unsuccessful in segregating communist...
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    Chien Thang (Struggle for Victory) pacification program was less ambitious than the Strategic Hamlet program, envisioning a gradual expansion, like an "oil...
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    this program would convince the peasants to become increasingly loyal to the South Vietnamese government, however, the Strategic Hamlet Program was a...
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    head of the British Advisory Mission to South Vietnam, and the Strategic Hamlet Program was formed. It was approved by Kennedy and South Vietnam President...
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    Ngô Đình Nhu and later resurrected under another name was the "Strategic Hamlet Program" which was regarded as unsuccessful by Western media because it...
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