Vietnam Labyrinth: Allies, Enemies, and Why the U.S. Lost the War

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index The letter n following a page number indicates a note on that page. The number following the n indicates the number of the note in the chapter. air war bombing of civilians and, 249 effectiveness of, 248–49 geography of, 249–50 heavy damage in South from, 249 intensity of, 248 Long Binh and, 249–50, 415n1 speed and safety of air travel and, 248 An, Father, 196–97 annual personal tax, 39, 54 An Thuong, 94 Atlantic, 314 Auriol, Vincent, 96, 116, 403n1 Bao Dai, xiv, 3–4, 25, 99–100, 102, 111, 399n6, 399n9 abdication of, 5 Vietnamese independence and, 10 Bao Quoc pagoda-school, 8 Tet Offensive and, 318 Be, Major, 414n9 Beech, Keyes, 337–39, 361, 393, 399n4, 419n10 Ben Suc village, 273–75 Ben Tre, 170, 407n3 Tet Offensive and, 318–19 Bich Nhan, 118, 277 Tet Offensive and, 315 Bright Shining Lie (Sheehan), xiii, 243, 409n2 Britain, South Vietnam and, 49 Buddhism Communist North Vietnamese government and, 418n2 flag controversy, 1963, 185–86 Marxism-Leninism and, xiv, 102 Tran Ngoc Chau and, 8, 9, 86, 102, 185–86 Buddhist Unified Church, 400n15 Bui Bach, 126 Bui Bang Doan, 25 Bui Diem, 311 Bui Tan Buu, 288 Bui Van Luong, 170 Bui Xuan Bao, 369 Bumgardner, Everet, 239, 270, 339, 419n12 Bunker, Ellsworth, 283, 303, 326, 345, 360, 415n4 Buon Mathieng, 71 Butterfield, Major, 147 Cambodia, Vietnamese invasion of, 391 Can Lao party, 148, 149, 151, 205, 405n8 Cao Minh Quan, 188 Cao Van Khanh, 83 Cao Xuan Huy, 209 Cau Dat, 15–16 execution in, 16–18 Census Grievance Program (CG), 179–82 in Kien Hoa, 216–17 three basic questions of, 182 See also under Tran Ngoc Chau 426 index Center for Military Studies (Hanoi), 130–31 Centre Groupe Mobile, 121–22, 123 mission of, 125 Chau Trial (Pond), 173, 290 Chi Hoa prison, 419n1 China/Chinese expulsion of, 381, 422n1 language, 42118 in North Vietnam, 20 in South Vietnam, 421n17 Cho Duoc, 103–4 Cholon, 143 Cistaro, Tony, 392–93, 393, 416n3, 416n6 Citadel (Hué), 3–4, 6 Civil Guard and Self-Defense Corps, 158 Tran Ngoc Chau’s report on twenty provinces, 158–61 See also Refresher Course for Provincial Commanders and Deputy Commanders of the Civil Guard Clay, Frank, 166, 183 Coates, Robert, 318 Colby, William, 229, 232, 302, 399n4, 419n2 Communist victory, implications of, 267–68, 380 Conein, Lucien, 202, 230 Con Son prison, 421n15 Council on Foreign Affairs, 313 Counterterrorist Teams (CT), 239–41 Coup of 1963 in Danang, 204–7 President Diem’s brothers and, 203 radio station and, 200–201 Revolutionary Military Committee and, 201 Saigon airport and, 199 Customs and Registration Department, 112, 402n1 Dai Viet party, 242–43 Dalat, 16, 116–17 See also Vietnamese Military School of Inter-Arms (Dalat) Dam Quang Trung, 96–98, 107 Dam Quang Yeu, 191, 205 Dam Van Quy, 417n10 Danang, 120 conditions in, 1963, 189–90 Dang Van Quang, 112, 197 Dang Van Son, 132, 134, 151 Deo Hai Van, 107 “Destroy to Resist” strategy, 52, 63, 83, 94 Dewey, Albert Peter, 19 Dien Bien Phu, 136, 139, 395 DMZ, 257 Do Cao Tri, 199, 207, 409n6 Do Mau, 234 Donahue, Tom, 232, 233, 234–35, 237, 243 Do Van Dien, 203 Dran, 25–27 Duc Trong, battle at, 126–28 Duong Ngoc Lam, 210–11 Duong Van Minh (Big Minh), 201, 202, 203, 208, 280, 336 Duong Van Thuy, 324 Ellis, “Ace”, 244 Ellsberg, Daniel, 221–22, 243, 270, 280, 302–3, 399n4 anti-war sentiment of, 301–2 on Chau, 412n14 Far Eastern Economic Review, 393 Fermoyle, Ken, 399 First Vietnam Airborne Battalion, 119 Fitzgerald, Desmond, 416n5 Fitzgerald, Frances, 313–14, 416n5 in flagrante delicto, 346, 420n6 427 index France/Frenchmen atrocities of, 80, 402n4 deal with Kuomintang and, 49 Japan and, 4 Vietnamese and, xvii war of liberation and, 27–28, 400n3 World War II collapse and, 9 Free Zone of Quang Ngai, 47 trek to, 37–42, 51–52 French Civil Guard, 53, 401n1 Geneva Accords, xvii, 136, 137, 395 Viet Minh and, 138 Giai Phong Quan, xvii Gia Long, 6 Goldwater, Barry, 296–97 Gracey, General, 19 Grant, Zalin, 417n6 Guangzhouwan area, 49 GVN (Government of Viet Nam), xiv–xvi Habib, Philip, 300 Hanoi, 10, 300 Center for Military Studies in, 130 Chinese, peaceful expulsion of, 384 Chinese and, 20, 31, 32 French control and, 131 Hien and, 412n12...