The counterinsurgency era: U.S. doctrine & performance, 1975 to the present

Foreword                                                                                                                                 ix

Preface                                                                                                                                    xv

Glossary of Abbreviations xix

1 Communist Rural Insurgency From National Liberation to People’s War and Beyond        1

2 Prefigurations Counterinsurgency in the Philippines and Malaya                                        22

3 The Kennedy Crucible                                                                                                         52

4 Vietnam and Strategic Hamlets                                                                                           89

5 People’s Counterinsurgency                                                                                                128

6 Thailand The Effort to Learn by Experience                                                                        169

7 The Revival of Counterinsurgency Vietnam 1963–1967                                                     205

8 CORDS in Charge Vietnam 1967–1972                                                                              243

9 Denouements                                                                                                                       279

Notes                                                                                                                                       313

Selected Bibliography                                                                                                              331

Index                                                                                                                                        343