Dropping the Montagnard Ball: A Failure to Capitalize

Abstract

The Vietnamese had failed, after hundreds of years, to win the cooperation and friendship of the Montagnards. Within only months of the creation of the Civilian Irregular Defense Group (CIDG) program the Americans had produced an ally that would be willing to jump on grenades to save their lives while fighting the communist insurgency in South Vietnam. The best way to demonstrate and explain the dramatic difference in the results between the Vietnamese and U.S. efforts is to first examine the Montagnards tribes and the CIDG program in which they were used followed by a comparison and contrast of the Vietnamese and American approaches to dealing with this indigenous group.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2010
Accession Number
AD1019036

Entities

People

  • Jason Sparks

Organizations

  • Air Command and Staff College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Biomedical
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Civic Action
  • Governments
  • Green Berets
  • Indigenous Population
  • Insurgency
  • Medical Personnel
  • Military History
  • Military Training
  • New York
  • Recruiting
  • Societies
  • South Vietnam
  • Southeast Asia
  • Special Forces
  • Training
  • United States
  • Vietnam

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  • East Asian Political and Security Studies within the Soviet Union
  • Library and Information Science/ Studies, Southeast Asia Studies, Bibliography of Vietnam and Lao Studies.
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