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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

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

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