Ashes to Ashes: The Phoenix Program and the Vietnam WarDraws on interviews with former operatives and on government documents to present a highly positive account of the controversial rural pacification program from its inception in 1967 to the departure of its American advisors and collapse of the program in 1973. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR |
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Contents
Viet Cong Infrastructure | 1 |
Antiinfrastructure Antecedents | 15 |
Creating a System | 47 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Ashes to Ashes: The Phoenix Program and the Vietnam War G - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Series Issues in low-intensity conflict series Lexington books |
| Author | Dale Andradé |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Lexington Books, 1990 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 3 Sep 2008 |
| ISBN | 066920014X, 9780669200140 |
| Length | 331 pages |
| Subjects | › History / General |
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