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...What worked in Malaya-resettling peasants in "fortified villages" so that the guerrillas are cut off from peasant support-is not yet working in South Viet Nam. The peasants are passionately attached to their ancestral fields; when they are moved, they usually slip off into the jungle to join the Reds, who promise to give them back their land. In two fortified villages, part of "Operation Sunrise," where U.S. aid has supplied food, tools, houses and medical care, the peasants have discovered that life can be better than before. Elsewhere, they have simply been rounded up by uncomprehending district chiefs...
Inspiration for the program came from a similar plan that the British used successfully to put down a Communist guerilla revolt in Malaya. But the Vietnamese situation is fundamentally different from the Malayan. In Malaya the guerillas were Chinese and therefore could not effectively appeal for support on nationalist grounds. Moreover, the British offered immediate compensation to evicted peasants. As Malaya is a peninsula, the war was in effect quarantined from foreign assistance. And the British still had to spend ten difficult years crushing the revolt...
...Malaya, the aim of the strategic villages is to isolate the Viet Cong guerrillas in the countryside and deprive them of food, shelter and rest in peasant homes...
With Operation Sunrise, the South Viet Nam army, aided by U.S. and British military advisers, last week sought to apply the lessons of Malaya against the Communist Viet Cong marauders in the jungles and paddyfields of South Viet Nam. The situations are not precisely identical: in Malaya, the Red terrorists were Chinese who got support mostly from Chinese peasants and were generally opposed by Malayans. But the system of creating strategic villages offered the best hope yet of reducing the Red threat in the Viet Nam countryside...
Brian painfully learns to lie. fight, and tomcat. He finds a steady girl, marries her with a baby on the way. And when he is old enough to be drafted (after World War II), he puts in for overseas duty and is shipped out to Malaya...