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...Corpsmen, and thus deprive the Viet Cong guerrillas of the supplies and shelter they have long exacted from the terrified peasants. To date, nearly 3,000 of the 11,500 strategic hamlets that the government expects to build have been completed, and 2,700 more are under construction. In Phu Yen province alone, 200 miles northeast of Saigon, 170,000 Vietnamese out of a population of 345,000 have been relocated in strategic hamlets. Though the Viet Cong have repeatedly attacked the strategic hamlets, they have been unable to subdue any of them. In 60 attacks last month, the government...
...target area was a fertile quilt of rice fields and palm jungle near the market village of Tan Phu, only ten miles from Saigon. Communist Viet Cong guerrillas not only control the countryside, but can enter the town itself with impunity. They collect both rice and money taxes from the peasants and, in their hidden weapons caches, keep musical instruments and songbooks for use in the evening indoctrination sessions held for the local citizenry...
...Viet Minh armies had the military capability to crush the French completely and take over the whole of Vietnam, North and South. After the fall of Dien Bien Phu, there was little doubt the Viet Minh had complete and unconditional victory within its grasp. The French would have to accept whatever terms the Viet Minh decided to offer. But at the Geneva truce negotiations the Viet Minh delegation made concessions to France and the West that were surprisingly great, considering their advantageous military position. Although the Viet Minh had originally demanded the 11th parallel as provisional dividing line between...
...written expressly to sell the author's ideas on the role of the army. As a novel, it hardly exists. Although the cover calls it "the sensational bestselling French novel about their paratroops in Indo-China and Algeria," it only describes Indo-China after the defeat at Dien-Bien-Phu, and deals with the Algerian campaign in a curious (and not very exciting) fashion, as though the French army there were Larteguy's model army...
...running fight along the canals of Ba Xuyen province, army patrols killed six Viet Cong guerrillas, and in similar incidents, South Vietnamese often gathered to stare curiously at the dead guerrillas. In the coastal jungles of Phu Yen province, the Viet Cong ambushed and wiped out 40 civil guards. A rickety train chugging up from Saigon to Nhatrang was derailed; in the confusion seven government soldiers vanished, either captured by the Viet Cong or deserting to them. Day after day, the war-formless, ferocious, without front lines-grew in intensity...