Preface to the Bison Books Edition
Foreword, by Col. Harry G. Summers, Jr., USA (Ret.)
Preface
Acknowledgments
PART ONE ORIGINS
1 Vietnam at War: Before Phoenix
2 The Shadow Government and the Viet Cong
3 The Shadow Government and the People
4 The War against the Shadow Government: Before Phoenix
5 The New Attack on the Shadow Government
PART TWO INTELLIGENCE
6 Targets
7 Informants and Agents
8 Prisoners: Interrogation, Torture, and Execution
9 Ralliers, Documents, and Photographs
10 Misinformation
PART THREE COORDINATION
11 The Challenge: Phoenix Centers
12 Attempts to Make Phoenix and Phung Hoang Work
13 Other Intelligence and Operations Coordination
PART FOUR OPERATIONS
14 The Nature of Operations
15 The Birds of Prey
16 The South Vietnamese
17 The Americans
18 Neutralization of Non-Communist Civilians
19 Assassinations
PART FIVE DAMAGE INFLICTED ON THE SHADOW GOVERNMENT
20 Neutralization Statistics
21 Actual Viet Cong Cadre Losses
22 Additional Setbacks for the Shadow Government
23 The Shadow Government in Decline
PART SIX VILLAGER ATTITUDES
24 Abuse of the Population
25 Changing Attitudes
26 The Impact of the New Attitudes
PART SEVEN POSTLUDE
27 Theories of Revolutionary Warfare
28 Reflections
29 Lessons Learned
Glossary
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index