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Phoenix and the Birds of Prey: Counterinsurgency and Counterterrorism in Vietnam Paperback - 2007
by Mark Moyar
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Drawing on recently declassified documents and interviews with more than 100 U.S., South Vietnamese, and North Vietnamese sources, historian Mark Moyar dissects attempts to eradicate the Viet Cong infrastructure. Filled with new revelations and corrections of existing accounts, Moyar's long overdue history sets the record straight about one of the last remaining secrets of the Vietnam War--and offers poignant lessons for dealing with future Third World insurgencies. 40 photos.
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- Title Phoenix and the Birds of Prey: Counterinsurgency and Counterterrorism in Vietnam
- Author Mark Moyar
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Reprint ]
- Condition Used - Excellent Condition
- Pages 496
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Bison Books, Lincoln
- Date 2007-12-10
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Glossary, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # 6725948
- ISBN 9780803216020 / 0803216025
- Weight 1.43 lbs (0.65 kg)
- Dimensions 9.04 x 6.08 x 1.04 in (22.96 x 15.44 x 2.64 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1960's
- Chronological Period: 1970's
- Cultural Region: Southeast Asian
- Library of Congress subjects United States, Mat tran dan toc giai phong mien nam Viet Nam
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2007027960
- Dewey Decimal Code 959.704
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For more than thirty years the mere mention of the Phoenix Program, the CIA's top-secret effort to destroy the Viet Cong by neutralizing its "civilian" leaders, has conjured up dark images of secret assassinations, kidnappings, and the torture of civilians by the South Vietnamese and their U.S. advisers. This study explodes many of the prevailing myths and perceptions of the program and the myriad efforts that until now have been mistakenly lumped together under the term Phoenix. Drawing on recently declassified documents and interviews with more than one hundred U.S., South Vietnamese, and North Vietnamese sources, Mark Moyar dissects the various attempts to eradicate the Viet Cong infrastructure and analyzes the effectiveness of each. With balance and full documentation, he addresses serious misconceptions about these efforts and provides the most accurate and complete picture available of the allies' decapitation of the Viet Cong shadow government.