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by no_exit
752 days ago
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INR was also the source of the concentration camp ("strategic hamlet") strategy in South Vietnam. > The INR director saw the counterinsurgency effort's emphasis on military security as insufficient. Hilsman was much more receptive to ideas for population resettlement and control along lines advanced by Robert G. Thompson, a British consultant to the Diem government, and adopted them as his own. Kennedy asked Hilsman to prepare a paper showing how this concept could work. https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB121/prados.htm |
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