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Cambridge University Press
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September 2017
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2017
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9781316995648

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In 2002, Governor General Michael Jeffrey stated that 'we Australians had everything under control in Phuoc Tuy Province'. This referred not only to military control, but to the policy of 'pacification' employed by the Republic of Vietnam and external 'Free World' allies such as the US and Australia. In the hopes of stemming the tide of Communism, pacification aimed to win the allegiance of the populace through political, economic and social reform. In this new work, Thomas Richardson explores the 1st Australian Task Force's (1ATF) implementation of this policy in Phuoc Tuy between 1966 and 1972. Using material from US and Australian archives, as well as newly translated Vietnamese histories, Destroy and Build: Pacification in Phuoc Tuy, 1966–1972 challenges the accepted historiography of the Western forces' fight against insurgency in Vietnam.

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Contents

Bibliography

Unpublished official and personal records

Australian War Memorial

  • AWM 95 – Australian Army commanders’ diaries

  • AWM 98 – Records of Headquarters Australian Force Vietnam (Army Component)

  • AWM 103 – Records of Headquarters 1st Australian Task Force

  • AWM 107 – Department of Defence, Army Office, Military History Transcripts

  • AWM 257 – The Official History of Australia's Involvement in Southeast Asian Conflicts 1948–1975 – Vietnam War – Army series – Records of Ian McNeill and Ashley Ekins

  • AWM 276 – Records of the Australian Army Assistance Group Vietnam (AAAGV)

  • AWM 282 – Records of the Defence and Military Attaches Australian Embassy Saigon

  • AWM 293 – Records of the Australian Army Training Team Vietnam (AATTV)

  • AWM 304 – Records of 1 Psychological Operations Unit (1 Psy Ops)

  • AWM 314 – Records of 1 Australian Civil Affairs Unit (1ACAU)

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  • A1 123 – Senior Advisor's Monthly Evaluation Reports, 1964–1965

  • A1 488 – Province Files, 1972

  • A1 525 – Public Safety Directorate, Field Operations Division, General Records 1965–73

  • A1 731 – Records of CORDS Advisory Team 89

  • P98 – Monthly Field Reports, 1967–1969

  • RG 472 – Records of the US Forces in Southeast Asia, 1950–1976

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