Full Description
This volume in the Praeger Security International (PSI) series Classics of the Counterinsurgency Era was among the first major published analyses by an American expert on the insurgency in Indochina. In addition to tracing the Chinese influence on the Vietminh cadres and the French military response, the book describes the organization, logistics, and tactics of the communist movement. The author, George Tanham, managed the U.S. rural development program in South Vietnam and later served as special assistant for counterinsurgency at the U.S. Embassy in Thailand during the mid-1960s. With a new foreword by Richard A. Shultz Jr.
Contents
Preface to the Revised Edition
Preface to the First Edition
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Introduction
Vietminh Military Doctrine and the War
The Vietminh Military Organization
Vietminh Personnel and Logistics
Vietminh Operations and Tactics
Vietminh Reactions to French Tactics and Air Power
The Rise of the Viet Cong
The Viet Cong Military
American Military Participation and the Viet Cong
Epilogue
Selected Bibliography
