Jeff Lacy

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COLLECTIVELY ALL of these measures—the field inspections to improve the army’s honesty and effectiveness, the expansion of the army’s size and its reorganization into Battalion Combat Teams, the creation of the Scout Rangers to hunt down rebels in the jungle, the raids to capture the Huk leadership in Manila, the expansion of civic action, the resettlement of surrendered rebels, the use of psywar tactics such as the “eye of God” and the “vampire” killing, the booby-trapped weapons—took a serious and
The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam
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