A changing strategic landscape and an emerging new world order are causing a major shift in the size and structure of the U. S. Armed Forces for the 1990s and beyond. The result will be the Base Force of 1995- a Total Force prudently tailored of...
This handbook represents an accumulation of general information and guidance on all aspects of the Peoples Self-Defense Force program. It provides appropriate references to GVN Directives which establish PSDF policy, programs, and reporting...
This village security planning guide was published specifically for use by District and Mobile Advisory Teams in assisting their Vietnamese counterparts in the accomplishment of the 1970 pacification and development plan. It reflects the desires of...
The purpose of this document is to provide guidance in establishing a coordinated defense system for villages and hamlets. Contents include area security, village structure, Viet Cong infrastructure, native assets available, command and...
This handbook is designed to inform advisors at all levels of the structure and nature of the Vietnamese village. It covers the traditional village leadership, village government, village economy, village security, and the advisory role. The...
The 1st BCT, 101st ABN DIV (AA) assumed the mission to eliminate the insurgency and establish security operations in the Sal-a-Din Province in October, 2007. The 2nd BN, 327th IN, occupied FOB Brassfield-Mora west of Samarra. To secure the...
Pacification is the military, political, economic, and social process of establishing or reestablishing local government responsive to and involving the participation of the people. It includes the provision of sustained, credible territorial...
Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (MACV), Headquarters; Office of Civil Operations, American Embassy, Saigon
This report was written to provide instruction and guidance for the preparation and submission of the Revolutionary Development Hamlet Evaluation Report (RDHER). Enclosures include Viet Cong military activities, Viet Cong political and subversive...
This study analyzes the current Reserve Officer Training Corps' (ROTC) Program of Instruction (POI) found in Cadet Command Regulation 145-3 and determines if the POI has anticipated the leadership training needs of ROTC cadets for the future. In...
United States Military Assistance Command, Vietnam
The "Handbook for military support of pacification" has been developed as a basic reference document designed for use by United States forces, Republic of Vietnam forces, and Free World Military Assistance Forces operating in the Republic of...
Rural Development Division, Community Development Directorate, CORDS
This handbook was designed to inform advisors at all levels of the structure and nature of the Vietnamese village. This was important to the CORDS mission because the government of Vietnam, in its Pacification and Development Plan for 1970, had...
'Winning Teams' identifies characteristics successful American infantry divisions had in common during World War II and the extent to which those characteristics were unique. The study discusses stateside training, overseas deployment and first...
This is one of a series published by the U.S. Army Center of Military History. They were written by officers who held responsible positions in the Cambodian, Laotian, and South Vietnamese armed forces during the war in Indochina. To evaluate the...
This monograph examines the nature of insurgent infrastructure and methods of identifying it. It uses a Communist mass-base insurgency as a context. The research hypothesis is that current doctrine and service school curricula do not adequately...
In this reference pamphlet, which follows an earlier history of the first year of Marine Corps civic action in Vietnam, the story of the second year of civilian aid policies, programs and activities is relayed. It is largely based on the records of...
Rural Development Division, Community Development Directorate, CORDS
This handbook was designed to inform advisors at all levels of the structure and nature of the Vietnamese village. Information is given about the village- past and present, village government, economy and finance, village security, and the American...