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

50th Anniversary of Vietnam |

by Robert J. Thompson III 

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

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.

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