Pacification : The American Struggle For Vietnam's Hearts And Minds

在越南戰爭期間，美國代表南越政府開始了一場不尋常的十字軍東征。它被稱為和平計劃，旨在擊敗共產主義叛亂分子，促進經濟發展和政治改革，幫助南越政府紮根並作為一個獨立的合法實體生存。在這本書中，Richard Hunt提供了第一部關於美國心靈與思想鬥爭的綜合歷史。軍事和政治方法的獨特融合，在瞄準南北越南之間鬥爭的本質。特效集中在美國的角色，在更大的國家建設政治背景下設置和平。

他描述了軍事和政治行動的最佳組合，納入有爭議的鳳凰計劃的分析，並闡明了美國人與他們有時不情願的盟友所遇到的困難。作者解釋了讓美國軍隊參與安撫是多麼困難，並表明了為不同組織（軍事，民事和情報機構）提供服務以實現一個共同目標的鬥爭。

所有人面臨的最大挑戰是說服代理人 - 西貢政府 - 執行計劃並進行美國官員所設想的改革。本書最後仔細評估了安撫的成功和失敗。如果有更多的時間鞏固和平的成果，西貢政府是否會蓬勃發展？或者該政權是否存在根本性的缺陷，以至於它的內部矛盾預先決定了它的滅亡？這本開創性的書為這些以及有關我們越南經歷的其他重要問題提供了令人吃驚和挑釁性的答案。

During the Vietnam War, the United States embarked on an unusual crusade on behalf of the government of South Vietnam. Known as the pacification program, it sought to help South Vietnam's government take root and survive as an independent, legitimate entity by defeating communist insurgents and promoting economic development and political reforms. In this book, Richard Hunt provides the first comprehensive history of America's ?battle for hearts and minds,? the distinctive blending of military and political approaches that took aim at the essence of the struggle between North and South Vietnam.Hunt concentrates on the American role, setting pacification in the larger political context of nation building.

He describes the search for the best combination of military and political action, incorporating analysis of the controversial Phoenix program, and illuminates the difficulties the Americans encountered with their sometimes reluctant ally. The author explains how hard it was to get the U.S. Army involved in pacification and shows the struggle to yoke divergent organizations (military, civilian, and intelligence agencies) to serve one common goal.

The greatest challenge of all was to persuade a surrogate?the Saigon government?to carry out programs and to make reforms conceived of by American officials.The book concludes with a careful assessment of pacification's successes and failures. Would the Saigon government have flourished if there had been more time to consolidate the gains of pacification? Or was the regime so fundamentally flawed that its demise was preordained by its internal contradictions? This pathbreaking book offers startling and provocative answers to these and other important questions about our Vietnam experience.

  Richard A Hunt (Autor)

Publisher:Westview Press 

ISBN:    978-0813334592 

原價   US 32 台幣價 NT$1150