In the Villages: Pacification

An Giang: Revolutionary Development in a Pacified Province. Ministry of Information of the Republic of Viet-Nam, (1966?). 23 pp. A illustrated pamphlet on An Giang (a province with a lot of Hoa Hao, in the western part of the Mekong Delta). The text has been placed on-line in the Virtual Vietnam Archive of the Vietnam Project at Texas Tech University.

Anatomy of a Pacified Province... An Giang. (Ministry of Information of the Republic of Vietnam, 1968?). 21 pp. A illustrated pamphlet on An Giang (a province with a lot of Hoa Hao, in the western part of the Mekong Delta), with a lot of discussion of agriculture, including the introduction of miracle rice. The text has been placed on-line in the Virtual Vietnam Archive of the Vietnam Project at Texas Tech University.

Dale Andrade and Lt. Col. James H. Willbanks, USA, Ret., "CORDS/Phoenix: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Vietnam for the Future." Military Review, 86:2 (March/April 2006), pp. 9-23.

Michael Arnsten and Nathan Leites, Land Reform and the Quality of Propaganda in Rural Vietnam.  Santa Monica: Rand, 1970.  RM-5764-ARPA.  vii, 105 pp.  Includes a refutation of the work of Edward J. Mitchell (see below), which had been used as an argument against land reform.

Asian Survey, 10:8 (August 1970), ran a special issue "Vietnam: Politics, Land Reform and Development in the Countryside." If you browse the Internet through an institution that has subscribed to JSTOR, you can access this issue as a whole, or its individual articles, online. The nine articles include:

Jeffrey Race, "How They Won", pp. 628-650.

Samuel L. Popkin, "Pacification: Politics and the Village", pp. 662-671.

MacDonald Salter, "The Broadening Base of Land Reform in South Vietnam", pp. 724-37.

William Bredo, "Agrarian Reform in Vietnam: Vietcong and Government of Vietnam Strategies in Conflict", pp. 738-750.

Roy L. Prosterman, "Land-to-the-Tiller in South Vietnam: The Tables Turn", pp. 751-764.

Ba Canh: A Story of Revolutionary Development. Ministry of Information of the Republic of Vietnam, 1966(?). 21 pp. Ba Canh is about 15 kilometers northwest of Qui Nhon, in Binh Dinh. The text has been placed on-line in the Virtual Vietnam Archive of the Vietnam Project at Texas Tech University.

Thomas J. Barnes, "Provincial and Regional Pacification in Vietnam." Memorandum for the Vietnam Archives, Vietnam Center, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, 12 January 2005. 28 pp. Barnes was province senior advisor, Binh Long, 1967-68, and Deputy for CORDS, Military Region II, 1970-71. The text has been placed on-line in the Virtual Vietnam Archive of the Vietnam Project at Texas Tech University.

Eric M. Bergerud, The Dynamics of Defeat: The Vietnam War in Hau Nghia Province. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1991.  xiii, 383 pp. The full text is available online to paid subscribers of Questia.

Kevin M. Boylan, "The Red Queen's Race: The 173d Airborne Brigade and Pacification in Binh Dinh Province, 1969-1970." Ph.D. Dissertation, History, Temple University, 1994. xiv, 808 pp. (last pages of bibliography apparently missing) DA9512807.

William Bredo, et. al., Land Reform in Vietnam: Working Papers.  4 vols.  Menlo Park, CA: Stanford Research Institute, 1968.  v. 1: Legal Framework and Program Status.  v. 2: Administration of Land Affairs.  v. 3: The Viet Cong. ix, Front matter and pp. 1-51, pp. 52-95.   v. 4: Surveys and Analyses Related to Land Tenure Issues.

William Bredo (ed.?), Land Reform in Vietnam.  Menlo Park, CA: Stanford Research Institute, 1968.  xxiv, 225 pp.  Summary volume for the preceding item.

William Bredo, "Agrarian Reform in Vietnam: Vietcong and Government of Vietnam Strategies in Conflict," Asian Survey, August 1970.

Colonel Erwin R. Brigham, "Pacification Measurement in Vietnam: The Hamlet Evaluation System." Prepared for presentation at the SEATO Internal Security Seminar, Manila, 3-10 June 1968. v, 35 pp. The text has been placed on-line in the Virtual Vietnam Archive of the Vietnam Project at Texas Tech University.

Colonel Erwin R. Brigham, "Pacification Measurement" Military Review, May 1970, pp. 47-55

Pierre Brocheux, The Mekong Delta: Ecology, Economy, and Revolution, 1860-1960. Madison: Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of Wisconsin, 1995. xix, 269 pp.

Jewett Millard Burr, "Land to the Tiller: Land Redistribution in South Vietnam, 1970-1973." Ph.D. dissertation, Geography, University of Oregon, 1976. xxiv, 375 pp. 77-11437. Compares implementation of the land reform in the Mekong Delta and the lowlands of central Vietnam.

Charles S. Callison, Land-to-the-Tiller in the Mekong Delta: Economic, Social and Political effects of Land Reform in Four Villages of South Vietnam. University Press of America, 1983.  xxv, 391 pp.

"Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development Support (CORDS) Briefings, June-July 1967." About 294 pp. of briefing texts and slides. The text has been placed on-line in the Virtual Vietnam Archive of the Vietnam Project at Texas Tech University.

Major Ross Coffey, USA, "Revisiting CORDS: The Need for Unity of Effort to Secure Victory in Iraq." 86:2 (March/April 2006), pp. 24-34.

"Comments of Village/Hamlet Officials Attending the Fifth Village/Hamlet Officials Training Course at the National Training Center, Vung-Tau." Community Development Directorate, CORDS, 13 November 1969. 29 pp. The course occurred 1-29 September 1969, and had 2,461 students. The text has been placed on-line in the Virtual Vietnam Archive of the Vietnam Project, at Texas Tech University.

COMUSMACV 021225Z Apr 69, "1969 Pacification Planning." 8 pp. The text has been placed on-line in the Virtual Vietnam Archive of the Vietnam Project, at Texas Tech University.

Pamela Ann Conn, "Losing Hearts and Minds: United States Pacification Efforts in Vietnam during the Johnson Years." Ph.D. dissertation, History, University of Houston, 2001. 333 pp. AAT 3032336. The full text is available online if you are browsing the Internet from an institution, such as Clemson University, that has a subscription to ProQuest "Dissertations and Theses: Full Text."

Chester L. Cooper, et. al., The American Experience with Pacification in Vietnam. Report R-185. Arlington, Virginia: Institute for Defense Analyses, International and Social Studies Division, March 1972. The text is available on the CD-ROM collection Vietnam Pacification Studies #1, listed below. It also has been placed on-line in the Virtual Vietnam Archive of the Vietnam Project at Texas Tech University, in three parts, two of them large and a bit slow to download:

Volume I, An Overview of Pacification. xix, 67 pp.

Volume II, Elements of Pacification. xiv, 343 pp.

Volume III, History of Pacification. xii, 351 pp. Starts with discussion of the Philippine and Malayan experiences (pp. 1-63), but the bulk is devoted to a history of pacification in Vietnam, from the First Indochina War (pp. 67-114) to the programs of 1969-71 (pp. 301-345).

CORDS monthly province reports. Reports by province senior advisors for a number of provinces, mostly for the months of March and April 1972, have been placed online in the Virtual Vietnam Archive of the Vietnam Project at Texas Tech University. These might be extremely interesting to anyone looking into the Easter Offensive of 1972.

LTC Lester M. Conger, Phong Dinh Province, report for February 1968. Reports from Thuan Trung district, Chau Thanh district, Thuan Nhon district, Phong Dien district, Phong Phu district, Phung Hiep district. The same .PDF file also includes the February 1968 report for Go Cong province, with district reports attached.

Robert M. Traister, Sadec Province, report for March 1972.

John D. Evans, Jr., Dinh Tuong Province and My Tho City, report for March 1972.

Douglas K. Watson, Vinh Long Province, report for March 1972.

Rudolph Kaiser, Go Cong Province, report for March 1972.

Colonel Alfred C. Ring, Tay Ninh Province, report for March 1972.

John A. Graham, Thua Thien Province, report for March 1972. Graham was Municipal Senior Advisor, Hue City. An handwritten annotation says the report was actually written by someone whose name might be William D. Fleming, for Graham.

A. L. Kotzebue, Kien Hoa Province, report for April 1972.

LTC Gerald T. Bartlett, Hau Nghia Province, report for April 1972.

Colonel Alfred C. Ring, Tay Ninh Province, report for April 1972.

Christopher A. Squire, Pleiku Province, report for April 1972.

Colonel Stephen W. Bachinski, Kontum Province, report for April 1972.

Daniel L. Leaty, Binh Dinh Province, report for April 1972.

Robert H. Wenzel, Thua Thien Province, report for April 1972.

Col. William R. Corson, The Betrayal. New York: Norton, 1968.  pb New York: Ace.  317 pp.

Randy Craig Cummings, "Vietnamese Villages in the Mekong Delta: Their Articulation with the Wider Society and the Implications for Local Social Organization." Ph.D. dissertation, Anthropology, SUNY at Binghamton, 1977. 301 pp. 76-28864.

Delta Regional Assistance Command, Village Security Planning Guide for District and Mobile Advisory Teams, 1970. Foreword by John P. Vann. This document has been placed on-line in the Virtual Vietnam Archive of the Vietnam Project at Texas Tech University, in two parts: front matter and pp. 1-29, and front matter and pp. 30-68.

John C. Donnell, "Pacification Reassessed," Asian Survey, August 1967.

Maynard Weston Dow, "Counterinsurgency and Nation-Building: A Comparative Study of Post World War II Antiguerrilla Resettlement Programs in Malaya, the Philippines and South Vietnam." Ph.D. dissertation, Geography, Syracuse, 1965. 288 pp. 65-07963.

Colonel Jerry F. Dunn (Ret), "A New Look at Pacification" Military Review, January 1970, pp. 84-87. Argues that the United States should be putting more of its conventional military forces into support of the pacification effort.

David W.P. Elliott and W.A. Stewart, Pacification and the Viet Cong System in Dinh Tuong: 1966-1967.  RM-5788-ISA/ARPA.  Santa Monica: Rand Corporation, January 1969.  117 pp.

Lawrence E. Grinter, "The Pacification of South Vietnam: Dilemmas of Counterinsurgency and Development." Ph.D. dissertation, Political Science, 1972, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. xvi, 1156 pp. 73-04828. Pages 1036 to 1128 are appendices.

GVN 1970 Pacification and Development Plan. Headquarters, MACV, n.d. English translation, for distribution within the U.S. Government, of the RVN's plan for pacification and development for 1970. The section on land reform was still incomplete. A large document made up of many sections paginated separately. The text has been placed on-line in the Virtual Vietnam Archive of the Vietnam Project at Texas Tech University.

Thomas P. Hamilton, "Vietnamese and American Relationships in Pacification: The Problem of Authority." Ph.D. dissertation, Political Science, Claremont, 1971. 281 pp. 71-29,622. The author was an advisor in Phu Cat district, Binh Dinh province, from late 1968 to early 1970.

Handbook for Military Support of Pacification. Saigon: Military Assistance Command, Vietnam, February 1968. ii, 59 pp., plus distribution list and annexes. This document has been placed on-line in the Virtual Vietnam Archive of the Vietnam Project at Texas Tech University, in two parts: front matter and pp. 1-45, and pp. 46-59, distribution list, and annexes.

Headquarters 29th Civil Affairs Company, "Standing Operating Procedures," 20 April 1971. This company was under XXIV Corps. It supported pacification, with primary emphasis on economic development and return to village programs, in all five provinces of I Corps. This document has been placed on-line in the Virtual Vietnam Archive of the Vietnam Project at Texas Tech University, in two parts: front matter, Annex A (Operations), and Annex B (Administration) to p. B-3-1, remainder of Annex B, Annex C (Supply), Annex D (Maintenance) to p. D-1-4, and remainder of Annex D.

James B. Hendry, The Small World of Khanh Hau. Chicago: Aldine, 1964. A village in Long An province, on the northeast edge of the Mekong Delta.

James B. Hendry, "American Aid in Vietnam: The View from a Village." Pacific Affairs 33:4 (December 1960), pp. 387-91. If you browse the Internet through an institution that has subscribed to JSTOR, you can access the text directly or go through the JSTOR Pacific Affairs browse page.

Stuart Herrington, Silence was a Weapon: The Vietnam War in the Villages. Novato, CA: Presidio, 1982. Re-issued in 1997, same publisher, under the title Stalking the Vietcong: Inside Operation Phoenix, a Personal Account. Herrington, then a captain in the US Army, was involved in trying to uproot the Communist organization in the villages of Hau Nghia province, a little northwest of Saigon, from February 1971 to August 1972.

Gerald C. Hickey, Village in Vietnam. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1964. Detailed study of peasant life in the village of Khanh Hau, in the Mekong Delta southwest of Saigon.

Richard A. Hunt, Pacification: The American Struggle for Vietnam's Hearts and Minds. Boulder: Westview, 1995. xv, 352 pp. The full text is available online to paid subscribers of Questia.

Robert W. Komer, The Other War in Vietnam: A Progress Report. Washington: Agency for International Development, 1966. 54 pp. The text has been placed on-line in the Virtual Vietnam Archive of the Vietnam Project, at Texas Tech University. This version is illustrated. The report, without the illustrations, was also published in the Department of State Bulletin, October 10 and 17, 1966, and published by the Department of State as a pamphlet, 29 pp.

Robert Komer 140415Z Dec 67, "Pacification in South Vietnam During October 1967." 8 pp. The text has been placed on-line in the Virtual Vietnam Archive of the Vietnam Project, at Texas Tech University.

Robert W. Komer, Impact of Pacification on Insurgency in South Vietnam.  Santa Monica: Rand, 1970.  P-4443.  19 pp. A paper prepared for delivery at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Los Angeles, September 8-12, 1970. The text has been placed on-line in the Virtual Vietnam Archive of the Vietnam Project, at Texas Tech University.

Michael E. Latham, Modernization as Ideology: American Social Science and "Nation Building" in the Kennedy Era. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. xii, 288 pp. One of the case studies is the strategic hamlet program.

Eun Ho Lee and Yong Soon Yim, The Politics of Military Civic Action: The Case of South Korean and South Vietnamese Forces in the Vietnam War. Hong Kong: Asian Research Service, 1980. 112 pp.

William J.C. Logan, "How Deep is the Green Revolution in South Vietnam? The Story of the Agricultural Turn-Around in South Vietnam", Asian Survey, 11:4 (April 1971), pp. 321-330. If you browse the Internet through an institution that has subscribed to JSTOR, you can go to the text directly or access the journal through the JSTOR Asian Survey browse page.

Mary McCarthy, "Report from Vietnam III: Intellectuals." New York Review of Books, 8:9 (May 18, 1967). Pacification and the chieu hoi program. There is a lot of attention to Nguyen Be at the school at Vung Tau that trained Revolutionary Development cadres, and some to Marine Colonel William Corson.

Robert E. O'Melia, "The Refugees of Duc Pho." Vietnam Magazine, October 2003. The peasants of Duc Pho district, on Highway 1 in Quang Ngai province, were the victims of an exceptionally heavy-handed and destructive pacification effort by Task Force Oregon. O'Melia, a USAID officer assigned to CORDS who was assigned to the district, tried without much success to alleviate their conditions. The text has been placed online at HistoryNet.com.

Col. Edward P. Metzner, More than a Soldier's War: Pacification in Vietnam. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1995. The title is a bit misleading; this very valuable book is a memoir of Metzner's multiple tours in Vietnam (a total of about seven years between 1964 and 1974, mostly as a province-level advisor in the Mekong Delta). xiii, 201 pp.

Edward J. Mitchell, Inequality and Insurgency: A Statistical Study of South Vietnam.  Santa Monica: Rand, 1967.  23 pp.  Rand Corporation Paper P-3610.

Edward J. Mitchell, "Inequality and Insurgency: A Statistical Study of South Vietnam." World Politics 20:3 (April 1968), pp. 421-38. If you browse the Internet through an institution that has subscribed to JSTOR, you can access the text online. For comments on and reactions to Mitchell's work see Arnsten (above), Paige and Paranzino (below).

William A. Nighswonger, Rural Pacification in Vietnam. New York: Praeger, 1966.  xvii, 320 pp. The doctoral dissertation from which this was derived (American University, 1966, AAT 6612813), is available on the CD-ROM collection Vietnam Pacification Studies #1, listed below.

Milton Osborne, Strategic Hamlets in South Vietnam. Data Paper no. 55. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 1965. ix, 66 pp.

Pacification Attitude Analysis System. Pacification Studies Group, Office of the ACofS, CORDS, Headquarters, MACV, June 1970. This publication has been placed online as the last 57 pages of a large file made up mostly of Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development Support (CORDS) Briefings, June-July 1967, in the Virtual Vietnam Archive of the Vietnam Project at Texas Tech University.

Pacification Priority Area Summary. Prepared by Assistant Chief of Staff for Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development Support, U.S. Military Assistance Command, Vietnam, 3 September 1968. 32 pp. The text has been placed on-line in the Virtual Vietnam Archive of the Vietnam Project at Texas Tech University.

R[obert] Michael Pearce, The Evolution of a Vietnamese Village.  Part 1, The Present, After Eight Months of Pacification.  RM-4552-1-ARPA.  Part 2, The Past, August 1945 to April 1964.  RM-4692-1-ARPA.  Part 3, Duc Lap since November 1964 and some Comments on Village Pacification.  RM-5086-1.  Santa Monica: Rand, 1965-1967.  Duc Lap, in Hau Nghia province.

Jeffery M. Paige, "Inequality and Insurgency in Vietnam: A Re-analysis." World Politics XXIII:1 (October 1970), pp. 24-37. A rebuttal to Edward Mitchell's study (above). The text has been placed on-line in the Virtual Vietnam Archive of the Vietnam Project at Texas Tech University.

Dennis Paranzino, "Inequality and Insurgency in Vietnam: A Further Re-analysis." World Politics 24:4 (July 1972), pp. 565-78. Further comments on Mitchell. If you browse the Internet through an institution that has subscribed to JSTOR, you can access the text online.

R[obert] Michael Pearce, The Insurgent Environment. RM-5533-1-ARPA. Santa Monica: Rand, May 1969. xix, 116 pp.

Robert Michael Pearce, "Land Tenure and Political Authority: The Processes of Change in Land Relations and Land Attitudes in Vietnamese Villages in the Mekong Delta since 1945." Ph.D. dissertation, Geography, University of Washington, 1968. 229 pp. 68-12710.

Jeffrey G. Peterson, "The Political and Military Uses of Land Reform in Wartime Vietnam: Precedences, 1960-1968." Ph.D. dissertation, Political Science(?), University of Miami, 1975. 342 pp. 76-4705.

Project Takeoff, Volume II, Assessment of Pacification in South Vietnam as of 31 May 1967. Assistant Chief of Staff, CORDS, Headquarters, MACV, 17 June 1967. The text of this item, accompanied by the texts of a MAC JOIR Briefing on Project Takeoff and of a SACSA Briefing for the Joint Staff on the status of Revolutionary Development as of 31 August 1967 has been placed on-line in the Virtual Vietnam Archive of the Vietnam Project at Texas Tech University.

Several documents dealing with Phoenix/Phung Hoang, written by or addressed to the Province Senior Advisor for Quang Nam province in November 1970, have been placed on-line in the Virtual Vietnam Archive of the Vietnam Project, at Texas Tech University.

A. Terry Rambo and Neil L. Jamieson III, A Study of the Effects of Long-term Communist Control on the Social Structure, Attitudes, & Values of the Peasants of the Mekong Delta. Honolulu: Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaii / McLean, Virginia: Human Sciences Research, Inc., 1970. x, 146 pp. Based on research in An Xuyen province in 1969. The text has been placed on-line in the Virtual Vietnam Archive of the Vietnam Project at Texas Tech University, in four parts: front matter and pp. 1-37;   pp. 38-88;   pp. 89-113;   pp. 114-146.

"Regulations and Laws Concerning Land Reform in South Viet-Nam". This collection of documents dated between March 1964 and October 1965 is pp. 68-92 of the AID Public Administration Bulletin, no. 44. The text has been placed on-line in the Virtual Vietnam Archive of the Vietnam Project at Texas Tech University.

Report of Inter-Agency "Roles and Missions" Study Group, US Mission, Vietnam, 24 August 1966. The study group, chaired by Col. George D. Jacobson and including Daniel Ellsberg, had been assigned to study the ways various organizations contributed to Revolutionary Development, and make recommendations. The text has been placed on-line in the Virtual Vietnam Archive of the Vietnam Project at Texas Tech University, in three parts: Front matter; Part I (Summary of Major Conclusions and Recommendations); Part II (Revolutionary Development); Part III (Elements Charged with Specific Revolutionary Development Roles); Part IV (Additional Recommendations Requiring US/GVN Agreements; Part V (Additional Recommendations Concerning US Advisory Effort, pp. 1-14); Part V (Additional Recommendations Concerning US Advisory Effort, pp. 15-26); Appendices.

Republic of Vietnam, Central Pacification and Development Council, 1971 Community Defense and Local Development Plan. Headquarters, MACV, 7 Jan 1971. English translation, for distribution within the U.S. Government, of the RVN's plan for pacification and development for the period 1 March 1971 through 28 February 1972. A large document made up of many sections paginated separately. The text has been placed on-line in the Virtual Vietnam Archive of the Vietnam Project at Texas Tech University.

Republic of Vietnam, Prime Minister's Office, Central Pacification and Development Council, Implementation of the 1969 PD Plan. Circular No. 143/PThT/BDXD/KH, 15 February 1969. 10 pp. English translation, with a cover memo by William Colby dated 21 February 1969, for distribution within the U.S. Government, of a circular on implementation of the PD plan of the CPDC, dated 15 December 1968. The text has been placed on-line in the Virtual Vietnam Archive of the Vietnam Project at Texas Tech University.

Republic of Vietnam, Ministry of Revolutionary Development, "The Village Self-Development Program." No. 0828 XD/32/SVVT, February 24, 1969. 16 pp. The text has been placed on-line in the Virtual Vietnam Archive of the Vietnam Project at Texas Tech University.

Colonel Maurice D. Roush, USA, "The Hamlet Evaluation System" Military Review, September 1969, pp. 10-17.

Maj. Terry E. Rowe, "Grim Reaper: A New Concept of Rice Denial in RVN." Article about a program by which rice was denied to enemy forces in the Que Son area of Quang Nam province. When rice in a communist-controlled village was ready for harvest, troops would land by helicopter and establish a perimeter. Then a harvesting crew of Vietnamese would be landed, who would harvest the crop. The rice would be flown out to friendly territory by helicopter. This was written with the intent that it be published in Military Review. The text of the article, and a letter of July 24, 1970 from the Security Review office under the assistant secretary of defense for public affairs, explaining that publication in the Military Review was being forbidden, have been placed on-line in the Virtual Vietnam Archive of the Vietnam Project at Texas Tech University.

Robert L. Sansom, The Economics of Insurgency in the Mekong Delta. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1970. xviii, 283 pp.

Jonathan Schell, The Village of Ben Suc. New York: Knopf, 1967. 132 pp. A good account of how the U.S. totally destroyed a village about 30 miles from Saigon early in 1967, moving out the whole population, to make operations against the Communists easier.

Major Lewis S. Sorley III, USA, "The Quiet War: Revolutionary Development." Military Review, November 1967 (vol. XLVII, no. 11), pp. 13-19.

Major Paul E. Suplizio, "A Study of the Military Support of Pacification in South Vietnam, April 1964-April 1965." Master's thesis, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, 1966. ix, 391 pp. This study of the Chien Thang pacification plan is based on some impressive-looking primary source research. The author had served in Vietnam, May 1964 to May 1965, on the staff of the Combat Operations Center, MACV, working on the briefings for the Daily Staff conference. The text has been placed on-line in the Virtual Vietnam Archive of the Vietnam Project, at Texas Tech University.

George K. Tanham, with W. Robert Warne, Earl J. Young, and William A. Nighswonger, War Without Guns: American Civilians in Rural Vietnam. New York: Praeger, 1966. xiii, 141 pp. All four authors had worked for AID in Vietnam: Tanham as director of provincial operations, Warne in Vinh Binh province, Young in Phu Bon province, and Nighswonger in Quang Nam province.

William J. Tater, "Impact of Land Reform on Pacification: A Quantitative Appraisal of Land Reform in Vietnam." Ph.D. dissertation, Agricultural Economics, University of Southern California, 1970. 192 pp. 71-12,419. I have been told by Dr. Tater that the dissertation was based on several years of field work in Vietnam. He strongly endorses the utility of land reform, which some were questioning at the time he wrote.

Brig. Gen. Tran Dinh Tho, Pacification.  McLean, VA: General Research Corporation [on a contract with the U.S. Army], 1977. vi, 219 pp. General Tho had been the Assistant Chief of Staff, J3, to the RVN Joint General Staff. Most of the text has been placed on-line in the Virtual Vietnam Archive of the Vietnam Project at Texas Tech University, in four parts: front matter and pp. 1-12, pp. 46-104, pp. 105-161, and pp. 162-219.

James Trullinger, Village at War. New York: Longman, 1980.  xix, 235 pp.   Paperback: Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1994. A very useful study of a village in central Vietnam near Hue, from the French period up to 1975. Includes discussion of the early Communist presence in the village, before 1945.

James L. Tyson, "Land Reform in Vietnam: A Progress Report." Asian Affairs, September-October 1973, pp. 32-41. The text has been placed on-line in the Virtual Vietnam Archive of the Vietnam Project at Texas Tech University.

Uy-Ban Lien-Bo Dac-Trach (ve) Ap Chien-Luoc (Inter-Ministry Committee for Strategic Hamlets): detailed minutes (in Vietnamese) of many meetings of the committee have been placed on-line in the Virtual Vietnam Archive of the Vietnam Project at Texas Tech University, in the collection titled "Douglas Pike Collection: Other Manuscripts - Intra Ministry Committee for Strategic Hamlets". A few randomly chosen examples:
Meeting of 2 March 1962 (29 pp.)
Meeting of 12 April 1963 (63 pp.)
Meeting of 6 September 1963 (40 pp.)

Vietnam Pacification Studies #1. Published as a CD-ROM by Carr's Compendiums in the series Carr's Compendium of the Vietnam War. Three major studies of pacification, adding up to more than 2,000 pages. These are:
1) "A Program for the Pacification and Long-term Development of South Vietnam", commonly referred to as "PROVN", Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Military Operations, Department of the Army, March 1966.
2) William A. Nighswonger, "Rural Pacification in Vietnam: 1962-1965." Ph.D. dissertation, American University, Political Science, 1966. xv, 394 pp. Nighswonger had worked in Central Vietnam, I believe for AID, from 1962 to 1964.
3) Chester L. Cooper, et. al., The American Experience with Pacification in Vietnam. Report R-185. Arlington, Virginia: Institute for Defense Analyses, International and Social Studies Division, March 1972. This is made up of three volumes: I "An Overview of Pacification," II "Elements of Pacification," and III "History of Pacification." The last of these starts with discussion of the Philippine and Malayan experiences (pp. 1-64), but the bulk is devoted to a history of pacification in Vietnam, from the First Indochina War (pp. 67-114) to the programs of 1970-71 (pp. 301-331).

The Vietnamese Land Reform Law. Introduction by Nguyen Ngoc Phach. Saigon: The Vietnam Council on Foreign Relations, 1970. 14 pp. The text has been placed on-line in the Virtual Vietnam Archive of the Vietnam Project at Texas Tech University.

The Vietnamese Village 1970: Handbook for Advisors. Rural Development Division, Community Development Directorate, CORDS, May 1970. The text has been placed on-line in the Virtual Vietnam Archive of the Vietnam Project at Texas Tech University, in two parts: front matter and pp. 1-44, and pp. 45-91. A revised edition dated 24 June 1971 is also available: front matter and pp. 1-28; pp. 29-58; pp. 57-90.

"Village/Hamlet Reorganization and Elections". Headquarters, MACV, 31 January 1967. Translations of four RVN decrees and executive circulars, all dated 24 December 1966. The text has been placed on-line in the Virtual Vietnam Archive of the Vietnam Project at Texas Tech University.

Louis J. Walinsky, ed., Agrarian Reform as Unfinished Business: The Selected Papers of Wolf Ladejinsky. New York: Oxford University Press, 1977. xi, 603 pp.

Alan Douglas Weathers, "Western Nam Bo: The War in the Lower Mekong Delta." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Maine, History, 2000. viii, 268 pp. The best sources used appear to be documents from U.S. archives. AAT 9986554. Covers the period 1968-1975. The full text is available online if you are browsing the Internet from an institution, such as Clemson University, that has a subscription to ProQuest "Dissertations and Theses: Full Text."

MG Wetherill ASST DEPCORDS MACV, MAC 4032 "eyes only" to MG Freund OJCS SACSA, 30 March 1969, reporting recent pacification activities. Mentions civilian casualties. 5 pp. The text has been placed on-line in the Virtual Vietnam Archive of the Vietnam Project, at Texas Tech University.

Nancy A. Wiegersma, "Land Tenure and Land Reform: A History of Property and Power in Vietnam." Ph.D. dissertation, Economics, University of Maryland, 1976. 238 pp. 77-13040. Emphasizes the role of market forces, from the late 19th century up to 1971.

Nancy Wiegersma, Vietnam--Peasant Land, Peasant Revolution: Patriarchy and Collectivity in the Rural Economy. New York: St. Martin's, 1988. xix, 281 pp.

Joseph J. Zasloff, Rural Resettlement in Vietnam: An Agroville in Development.  Saigon: Michigan State University Vietnam Advisory Group, 1961.  viii, 40 pp. The text has been placed on-line in the Virtual Vietnam Archive of the Vietnam Project at Texas Tech University.

Joseph J. Zasloff, "Rural Resettlement in South Viet Nam: The Agroville Program." Pacific Affairs 35:4 (Winter 1962-63), pp. 327-340. If you browse the Internet through an institution that has subscribed to JSTOR, you can access the text directly or go through the JSTOR Pacific Affairs browse page.

The Virtual Vietnam Archive of the Vietnam Project, at Texas Tech University, has placed online some documents on pacification in I Corps, most of them in a collection titled "US Marine Corps History and Museum Division Vietnam War Documents Collection". You can check on what is available by entering that collection title, without quotes, in the "collection title" field in their search engine. A sample of what has been put up so far:

Walter A. Lundy, American Vice Consul, "Provincial Reporting: Quang Nam Province - Viewed from Hoi An." October 22, 1965. 11 pp. "the Viet Cong still are firmly entrenched and in control of perhaps as much at two-thirds of the province's population."

"Ngu Hanh Son Campaign." April 14, 1966. 4 pp. A pacification program in the southern part of Hoa Vang district, near Danang.

Office of the Senior Advisor, Quang Nam Sector, Advisory Team #1, MACV, Special Joint Report of Revolutionary Development, 2 September 1966. 4 pp.

Office of the Senior Advisor, Quang Nam Sector, Advisory Team #1, MACV, Special Joint Report of Revolutionary Development, 1 October 1966. 4 pp.

Office of the Senior Advisor, Quang Nam Sector, Advisory Team #1, MACV, Special Joint Report on Revolutionary Development, 1 November 1966. 6 pp.

Office of the Senior Advisor, Quang Nam Sector, Advisory Team #1, MACV, Special Joint Report of Revolutionary Development, 31 December 1966. 6 pp.

Office of the Senior Advisor [Gen. Lewis Walt], I Corps Advisory Group, Special Joint Report on Revolutionary Development, date stamped 14 January 1967. 3 pp.

Province Senior Advisor, Quang Nam, "Special Joint Narrative Report on Revolutionary Development, Quang Nam Province." Monthly reports of this or very similar titles covering the months of April, July, May, November [with reports of district senior advisors attached], August, and October 1967 in that order.

Headquarters, III Marine Amphibious Force, I Corps Revolutionary Development Overview for September 1967. 9 pp. I Corps Revolutionary Development Overview for October 1967. 7 pp.

MACCORDS-RE, Evaluation Report, Security for Pacification in Quang Da Special Zone." 20 November 1967. 13 pp. plus maps.

Major James W. Simmons, Trip Report: I Corps Tactical Zone #II." 7 pp. 2 March 1968. Major Simmons, R&E Division, CORDS, visited Quang Tri and Quang Nam 20-24 February 1968.

MACCORDS-RE, Status of Pacification - Quang Nam (3) Province (Tet Offensive)." 4 pp. 27 March 1968.

Major Henry J. Lewis and Major Clarence W. Hannon, Evaluation Report: Security for Pacification in Quang Da Special Zone, 20 November 1967. 20 pp.

"Survey of Hoa Vang District, Quang Nam Province," 4 May 1968. 46 pp. Written by the district senior advisor, who I believe was F.D. Elfers. Hoa Vang district directly bordered the city of Danang to the west and south. The American impact on the area was of course huge, quite aside from the large number of CAPs in the district. The text of this report, and some memos commenting on it, and some unrelated documents on the CAP program.

"Evaluation Report: Pacification Progress in Quang Nam Province, I Corps Tactical Zone." 27 July 1968. 9 pp. The text (with some portions illegible, including the name of the author), and some memos relating to this report, are online.

29th Civil Affairs Company Food and Agriculture Team, and CORDS Agriculture/Region 1, "Agriculture Handbook for District Level Advisors and S-5 Personnel," May 1970. Pages are not numbered. This is mostly very prosaic advice on crops, animals, fish ponds, etc., but there is also a page on the ARVN 10th Political Warfare Battalion (the 5th page of the .pdf file) and three on Land Reform (46th to 48th pages of the .pdf file).