This is the book I was referencing. By a Marine Colonel who really does a great job of showing the Phoenix was a highly-successful special operations and psychological campaign. Despite the fact that the lefties have 'accused' Phoenix of being everything from genocide to a CIA cover for smuggling everything from heroin to diamonds.
Even the Ken Burns series Vietnam (which had his commie assistant Lynn Novak's commie leftist POS fingerprints all over it) jumped all over it in true sycophantic socialist "Oh but the Church Committee" fashion.
If Vietnam had started as a Phoenix program in 1962... instead of turning into a 'boots on the ground' heavy footprint war, it would have been over in no time. The lessons from Phoenix should have been that targeting your enemy surgically, never letting them sleep for fear of assasination in their beds or at any moment, and NOT subjecting the population to division after division of kinetically-trained soldiers is the way you fight a counter-insurgency.
Well, try telling that to ring knockers and congressmen who get their campaign funds and retirement packages from Lockheed and Dow Chemicals. How DID Cocaine Mitch amass a fortune of $170 million in personal wealth on a $175K a year salary, anyway.
And they're investigating Trump's finances...
If America comes apart at the seams like the left wants, I can tell you that the whole nasty business will look exactly like the Phoenix Program. So better learn it.
Great book!
Sirhr