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The Strategic Hamlet Program was a counterinsurgency campaign launched by the South Vietnamese government of Ngo Dinh Diem in the early 1960s. The program sought to isolate the Viet Cong from the rural population by
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Topics: Ngo Dinh Diem, Vietnam, President John F. Kennedy, Viet Cong, President Lyndon Johnson, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, Roger Hilsman, Intelligence Director, Colonel Pham Ngoc Thao,, Strategic Hamlets Program

During the Vietnam War, U.S. Army Special Forces—better known as the Green Berets—formed a close military alliance with the Montagnards, the Indigenous peoples of Vietnam’s Central Highlands. Together, they established
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Topics: Vietnam, Viet Cong, Ho Chi Minh trail, Central Highlands, Buon Enao village, CIDG program, Brigadier General William P. Yarborough, Khe Sanh, Lang Vei battle, Civilian Irregular Defense Group - CIA, Green Berets, Special Forces, Montagnards, Plei Mrong village

The Secret War in Laos was a covert U.S.-backed conflict fought alongside the larger Vietnam War. Beginning in the early 1960s, the CIA trained and supported Hmong forces led by General Vang Pao to fight the communist
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Topics: President John F. Kennedy, Laos, Cambodia, Cold War, Captain Kong Le, General Phoumi Nosavan, Sergeant First Class John Malcolm Bischoff, General Vang Pao, Burma, Thailand, Central Intelligence Agency, Seventh Special Forces, Plain of Jars, Sergeant Gerald Biber, Captain Walter Moon, CIA, Operation Momentum

Kennedy’s Vietnam: The Road to Deeper Involvement By the early 1960s, Vietnam had become far more than a distant corner of Southeast Asia. In Washington, it was increasingly viewed as a crucial front line in the Cold
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Topics: Ngo Dinh Diem, President John F. Kennedy, Viet Cong, South Vietnamese Army (AVRN), Buddhist monks, Operation Beef-Up, Domino Theory, President Lyndon Johnson, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, Saigon

Traveling the Ho Chi Minh Trail Few routes in Southeast Asia carry as much history as the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Today, travelers crossing the rugged mountains of central Vietnam and neighboring Laos can follow traces of a
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Topics: Dien Bien Phu, Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone, Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh trail, General Vo Nguyen Giap, Laos, Cambodia, Colonel Vo Bam

Built by forced labours, the Azeville Battery was one of the numerous batteries along the coastline of Normandy to prevent the Allies to establish a bridgehead. Located 4 miles at the east of the town of
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Topics: France, Normandy Azeville Battery, France, Normandy Azeville German Battery, Utah beach

While the 8th Infantry Regiment was fighting for Sainte-Mère-Église to link up with the 82nd Airborne Division, after a 7-hour walk through the swamps behind Utah Beach on June 6th , the 1st Battalion of the 22nd
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Topics: WWII 4th Infantry Division, France, Normandy, Crisbecq Battery, Normandy, ww2, 4th Infantry Division, Utah beach

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