1st Edition

US Internal Security Assistance to South Vietnam Insurgency, Subversion and Public Order

By William Rosenau Copyright 2005
232 Pages
by Routledge

232 Pages
by Routledge

232 Pages
by Routledge

This new study of American support to the regime of Ngo Dinh Diem in South Vietnam illuminates many contemporary events and foreign policies. During the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations, the United States used foreign police and paramilitary assistance to combat the spread of communist revolution in the developing world. This became the single largest internal security programme during... Read more

Preface and Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction  1. Einsehower, US Foreign Internal Security Assistance, and the Struggle for the Developing World  2. Shoring up America’s Man: The Origins of Police and Paramilitary Assistance to South Vietnam, 1954-56  3. The Struggle for Reform: The United States and Diem’s Internal Security Forces, 1956-58  4. Competing Conceptions: The United States, Diem, and the Civil Guard, 1955-1961  5. John F. Kennedy, Foreign Internal Security Assistance, and the Challenge of ‘Subterranean War’  6. ‘Ridiculous Representatives of Mr. Diem’: Paramilitary Forces and the Strategic Hamlet Programme, 1961-1963  7. American Universalism and the ‘Triumph of Technique’: The Kennedy Administration and Civilian Police Reform in South Vietnam Conclusion Appendix: Intelligence Documents Denied under the Freedom of Information Act Notes Bibliography

Biography

William Rosenau