Book Review: Clear, Hold, and Destroy: Pacification in Phú Yên and the American War in Vietnam

Authors

Samantha A. Taylor

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Description

Author: Robert J. Thompson III

Reviewed by Dr. Samantha A. Taylor, assistant professor of military and security studies, Air Command and Staff College

Published on April 20, 2023. There is no shortage of books that explore the Vietnam War and why it ended the way it did. This book does not focus on strategy or events but on the middle-level US and South Vietnamese pacification policy in the Phú Yên province and the communist strategy to counter it.

Publication Date

4-20-2023

Keywords

Vietnam, Phú Yên, People’s Army of Vietnam, People’s Liberation Armed Forces, National Liberation Front

Disciplines

Defense and Security Studies | Military and Veterans Studies

Recommended Citation

Samantha A. Taylor, Book Review: Clear, Hold, and Destroy: Pacification in Phú Yên and the American War in Vietnam ( US Army War College Press, 2023),
https://press.armywarcollege.edu/parameters_bookshelf/5