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