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Hi,
I got all three of these by googling "Chieu Hoi." The first two seem somewhat on-point, the last less so. Hope these are helpful.
Regards
Jeff
http://www.rand.org/commentary/082505NYT.html
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniont...e26jenkin.html
http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_me...6/RM4830-2.pdf
Phil: For post-release treatment so attractive as to be tailor-made for IO, and successful IO exploitation of this fact (granting of land titles to the former insurgents), you may wish to check out the EDCOR op in the Philippine Huk insurgency. MG Lansdale offers a couple of melodramatic (as was his wont) anecdotes in his book, In the Midst of Wars, but more useful details are likely available on the net. I'd be hardput to see direct Iraq applicability, but at the least it's a potential footnote for your project.
As you no doubt know from the literature, the undeniably (see the numbers!) successful Chieu Hoi project missed the boat on post-release follow up---Some ralliers were enlisted in the allied effort (scouts, propaganda team members, PRUs), but most of the 100K plus were left to sink or swim, sans monitoring, after release from the Chieu Hoi Centers.... In retrospect, the potential use of this manpower in, say, an expanded RD Cadre force composed of ralliers instead of urban draft dodgers, could have raised interesting possibilities...
(I mention this hypothetical alernative because I suspect this is the kind of thing you're looking for, if I've correctly understood your query. Such a return of the Hoi Chanh to their villages as an organized force didn't happen, though.)
Cheers,
Mike.
Last edited by Mike in Hilo; 11-20-2007 at 12:34 AM. Reason: Add final parenthetic para for clarification.
You will find a tremendous amount of primary material on the Chieu Hoi program running searches in the Virtual Vietnam Archive, an outstanding resource.Originally Posted by JeffWolf
Previously posted on SWC.Originally Posted by Jim Rodgers
...also previously posted, but containing some discussion of the subject under discussion, both direct and tangential, is last year's reprint from RAND of Counterinsurgency: A Symposium, April 16-20, 1962
Hi,
I came across this list on Amazon: PSEUDO-TERRORIST OPS: Deep Cover Military Sting Operations
Both this - How collusion was built into the system, and this - DOUBLE BLIND: The untold story of how British intelligence infiltrated and undermined the IRA, <Teague, Matthew, Atlantic Monthly Apr 06, Vol. 297, Issue 3> - deal with Northern Ireland.
This title sounds promising - From Coercion to Consent: Selective Amnesty and Reward Programs in COIN
Finally, I came across: Ramakrishna, Kumar. 2002. “‘Bribing the Reds to Give Up’: Rewards Policy in the Malayan Emergency.” 9 War in History 332.
Regards,
Jeff
Last edited by Jedburgh; 11-19-2007 at 12:14 PM. Reason: Fixed links.
Hi,
I forgot to post this title:
The Dirty War: Covert Strategies and Tactics Used in Political Conflicts.
<http://www.amazon.com/Dirty-War-Strategies-Political-Conflicts/dp/041592281X/ref=si3_rdr_bb_product>
Regards
Jeff
I'd recommend a closer look at the Northern Ireland situation, where it is commonly agreed jailing terrorists had a remarkable political impact and there was more pressure from prisoners on the political process than those outside exercised. Similar effect in South Africa. Indeed there is traffic in expertise between the two since peace.
Less well known here (in the UK) is the experience in Italy, with the Red Brigades and Spain, with ETA.
From a different angle the study of women suicide bombers held in Israeli jails has some lessons, best source I can readily find is:
http://www.labat.co.il/
Set up by an Israeli academic, Yoram Schweitzer.
davidbfpo
From Mao's little red book. Pretty interesting, because he wasn't exactly a democrat. I read somewhere that it worked pretty well. His policies might be worth researching.
"Our policy towards prisoners captured from the Japanese, puppet or anti-Communist troops is to set them all free, except for those who have incurred the bitter hatred of the masses and must receive capital punishment and whose death sentence has been approved by the higher authorities. Among the prisoners, those who were coerced into joining the reactionary forces but who are more or less inclined towards the revolution should be won over in large numbers to work for our army. The rest should be released and, if they fight us and are captured again, should again be set free. We should not insult them, take away their personal effects or try to exact recantations from them, but without exception should treat them sincerely and kindly. This should be our policy, however reactionary they may be. It is a very effective way of isolating the camp of reaction."
"On Policy" (December 25, 1940), Selected Works, Vol. II, pp. 446-47.*
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