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Countries

Democracy & Governance

Doctrine

Economy & Development

Information and PSYOP

Local Forces

Maoist People's War

National Unity

Pacification

Plans

Police

Refugees, Relief, and Victims

Restricted Collection

Security Operations

Countries

Colombia

Malaya

Nepal

Democracy & Governance

Republic of Vietnam 1969 Pacification Guidelines Annex III Strengthening Village and Hamlet Government (4 pages)

Republic of Vietnam 1969 Pacification Guidelines Annex VII Revolutionary Development Cadre (13 pages)

Republic of Vietnam 1970 Pacification Plan Annex 4 Local Administration (160 KB) 

Republic of Vietnam 1970 Pacification Plan Annex 10 Revolutionary Development Cadre (110 KB) 

Republic of Vietnam 1970 Pacification Plan Annex 12 Province Councils (60 KB) 

Tran Dinh Tho, Pacification (1977), Chapter 7 The GVN Political, Information and Chieu Hoi Efforts (849 KB pdf)

Tran Dinh Tho, Pacification (1977), 1966 Executive Decree ˇV Reorganization of Village and Hamlet Administration (727 KB pdf, p. 8)

Doctrine

Bulloch, Gavin. "Military Doctrine and Counterinsurgency: A British Perspective." Parameters (Summer 1996). pp. 4-16.

US Army Field Manual 31-20-3 Foreign Internal Defense: Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures for Special Forces, September 1994.

Economy & Development

Republic of Vietnam 1969 Pacification Guidelines Annex VI Village Self-Help Development Program (6 pages)

Republic of Vietnam 1969 Pacification Guidelines Annex XI Rural Economy (7 pages)

Republic of Vietnam 1969 Combined Campaign Plan Annex F Resources Denial (401 kb)

Republic of Vietnam 1970 Pacification Plan Annex 8 Prosperity (580 KB)

Republic of Vietnam 1970 Pacification Plan Annex 11 Village Development (230 KB)

Republic of Vietnam 1970 Pacification Plan Annex 13 Province Development (400 KB) 

Republic of Vietnam 1970 Pacification Plan Annex 15 Minorities (330 KB) 

Republic of Vietnam 1970 Pacification Plan Annex 16 Urban Programs (660 KB) 

Republic of Vietnam 1970 Pacification Plan Annex 17 Youth (210 KB) 

Tran Dinh Tho, Pacification (1977), Chapter 6 Social Reform and Economic Development (711 KB pdf)

Information and PSYOP

Republic of Vietnam 1969 Pacification Guidelines Annex X Information (7 pages)

Republic of Vietnam 1969 Combined Campaign Plan Annex H PSYOP (509 kb)

Republic of Vietnam 1969 Combined Campaign Plan Annex P Information (183 kb)

Republic of Vietnam 1970 Pacification Plan Annex 7 Information (220 KB)

Tran Dinh Tho, Pacification (1977), Chapter 7 The GVN Political, Information and Chieu Hoi Efforts (849 KB pdf)

Local Forces

Republic of Vietnam 1969 Pacification Guidelines Annex V Peopleˇ¦s Self Defense Force (2 pages)

Republic of Vietnam 1970 Pacification Plan Annex 3 Peopleˇ¦s Self Defense Force (100 KB)

Republic of Vietnam, Ministry of Defense, Report on Peopleˇ¦s Self-Defense Forces (1970) (478 kb XIF)

Study of Republic of Vietnam Regional Forces & Popular Forces (September 1967)

Part 1 (175 kb XIF) Part 2 (306 kb XIF) Part 3 (Recommendations) (469 kb XIF)

Maoist People's War

Republic of Vietnam 1969 Combined Campaign Plan Annex A Intelligence (826 kb)

Mao, ˇ§Report On An Investigation Of the Peasant Movement In Hunan,ˇ¨ March 1927; English & Chinese

Mao, ˇ§A Single Spark Can Start a Prairie Fire,ˇ¨ January 5, 1930; English & Chinese

Mao, ˇ§Problems of Strategy in Chinaˇ¦s Revolutionary War,ˇ¨ December 1936; English & Chinese

Mao, ˇ§Problems of Strategy in Guerrilla War Against Japan,ˇ¨ May 1938; English & Chinese

Mao, ˇ§On Protracted War,ˇ¨ May 1938; English & Chinese

National Unity

Republic of Vietnam 1969 Pacification Guidelines Annex VIII Chieu Hoi [Open Arms] Operations (6 pages)

Republic of Vietnam 1969 Combined Campaign Plan Annex I Returnees (322 kb)

Republic of Vietnam 1970 Pacification Plan Annex 5 National Unity (260 KB)

RAND Study of the Republic of Vietnamˇ¦s Chieu Hoi (Open Arms) Program (available soon)

Tran Dinh Tho, Pacification (1977), Chapter 7 The GVN Political, Information and Chieu Hoi Efforts (849 KB pdf)

Pacification

Republic of Vietnam 1969 Pacification Guidelines Annex VII Revolutionary Development Cadre (13 pages)

Republic of Vietnam 1970 Pacification Plan Annex 10 Revolutionary Development Cadre (110 KB) 

Tran Dinh Tho, Pacification (1977)

Plans

Republic of Vietnam Central Pacification and Development Council 1969 Pacification Guidelines

Republic of Vietnam and Free World Military Forces 1969 Combined Campaign Plan

Republic of Vietnam Central Pacification and Development Council 1970 Pacification and Development Plan

Republic of Vietnam 1969 Pacification Guidelines Annex XIII Organization of the Province Pacification Plan (8 pages)

Republic of Vietnam 1970 Pacification Plan Annex 18 Plans, Reports (120 KB) 

Police

Republic of Vietnam 1969 Pacification Guidelines Annex IV National Police (3 pages)

Republic of Vietnam 1970 Pacification Plan Annex 9 Police (210 KB)

Sir Robert Thompson et al, Report on the Republic of Vietnam National Police, 1971

Refugees, Relief, and Victims

Republic of Vietnam 1969 Pacification Guidelines Annex IX Anti-Communist Refugee Relief Program (4 pages)

Republic of Vietnam 1969 Combined Campaign Plan Annex C Refugee Support (180 kb)

Republic of Vietnam 1970 Pacification Plan Annex 6 War Victims (220 KB)

Restricted Collection

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Security Operations

Republic of Vietnam 1968 Presidential Order Anti Viet Cong Infrastructure Program (275 kb)

Republic of Vietnam 1968 Presidential Order Improving Status of Offenders (290 kb)

Republic of Vietnam 1969 Presidential Order Rehabilitating Offenders (255 kb)

Republic of Vietnam 1969 Pacification Guidelines Annex II Attack on the Viet Cong Infrastructure (7 pages)

Republic of Vietnam 1969 Combined Campaign Plan Annex J Attack VC Infrastructure (165 kb)

Republic of Vietnam 1970 Pacification Plan Annex 2 Protection of the People from Terrorism  (260 KB)

Republic of Vietnam 1970 Phoenix Standard Operating Procedures

Phoenix PSYOP collection Part 1 (460 kb)

Phoenix and Police PSYOP collection Part 2 (720 kb)

Republic of Vietnam 1969 Pacification Guidelines Annex I Military Support (9 pages)

Republic of Vietnam 1969 Combined Campaign Plan Annex B Military Support (176 kb)

Republic of Vietnam 1969 Combined Campaign Plan Annex D Special Security Areas (70 kb)

Republic of Vietnam 1969 Combined Campaign Plan Annex E Protection of LOCS (88 kb)

Republic of Vietnam 1969 Combined Campaign Plan Annex E Protection of LOCˇ¦S Appendices (278 kb)

Republic of Vietnam 1969 Combined Campaign Plan Annex F Resources Denial (401 kb)

Republic of Vietnam 1969 Combined Campaign Plan Annex G Detainees (184 kb)

Republic of Vietnam 1969 Combined Campaign Plan Annex K Irregulars (CIDG) (236 kb)

Republic of Vietnam 1969 Combined Campaign Plan Annex L Neutralize VC-NVA Bases (123 kb)

Republic of Vietnam 1970 Pacification Plan Annex 1 Territorial Security (550 KB)

Colombia

Thomas Marks, ˇ§Colombian Army Adaptation to FARC Insurgency,ˇ¨ Strategic Studies Institute, US Army War College, January 2002.

Malaya

Simpson, ˇ§Lessons from Malaya,ˇ¨ Joint Force Quarterly, Summer 1999

Nepal

Deepak Thapa, ˇ§Day of the Maoist,ˇ¨ Himal South Asian (May 2001) (html)

United Nations Development Program, Nepal Human Development Report 2001 (2.8 MB pdf)

Amnesty International, Nepal Human Rights Report, April 2002 (2.85 MB pdf)

Sukumar Basu, ˇ§CCOMPOSA: Threat to United States Interest in Nepal,ˇ¨ unpublished MA, 2003 (900kb pdf)

Sukumar Basu,  ˇ§Nepal: Alternate Futures Resulting from the Demands Made by Maoist Insurgents,ˇ¨ unpublished MA, 2003 (740kb pdf)

Thomas Marks, ˇ§Insurgency in Nepal,ˇ¨ Strategic Studies Institute, US Army War College, December 2003 (1MB pdf)

Sukumar Basu, ˇ§Peopleˇ¦s War: Threat to Nepalˇ¦s National Security,ˇ¨ unpublished MA, 2004 (455kb pdf)