Stalking the Vietcong: Inside Operation Phoenix: A Personal Account
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| Rating | : | 4.52 (725 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0345472519 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 312 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-10-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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Stuart A. He served the last year of his thirty-year army career as a member of the faculty of the Army War College at Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania. . Herrington was a counterintelligence officer in the Vietnam War
In a gripping memoir that reads like a spy novel, one man recounts his personal experience with Operation Phoenix, the program created to destroy the Vietcong’s shadow government, which thrived in the rural communities of South Vietnam.Stuart A. His two-year mission to capture or kill Communist agents operating there was made all the more difficult by local officials who were reluctant to cooperate, villagers who were too scared to talk, and VC who would not go down without a fight. Herrington developed an unexpected but intense identification with the villagers in his jurisdiction–and learned the hard way that experiencing war was profoundly different from philosophizing ab
Probably the most informative book I've read on the war D. Schultz Probably the most informative book I've read on the war, and I've read quite a bit, from many memoirs and personal accounts (E.G. Gary Linderer) to more professional or rather impersonal accounts such as Shelby Stanton or Mark Woodruff. On top of all that, . the hidden truth Sean Patrick Innocent Dineen Find example of nuts and bolts of counterinsurgency. Really put the reader in blood sweat and tears. "Five Stars" according to Thomas Tomlin. Have not completed this yet, so far a very factual report of how things were done.
“A poignant, personal account by an Army district advisor who discovered the Vietcong to be a formidable opponent.”–The New York Times