Counterinsurgency ─ What the United States Learned in Vietnam, Chose to Forget and Needs to Know Today

Donovan recounts his experience as a military advisor in a counterinsurgency program aimed at the rural villages and hamlets of Vietnam in 1969-70, and suggests how the lessons he learned could be applied in today's US wars. He covers the test: five questions, the program: five requirements, those who do counterinsurgency: the advisors, Donovan's dozens: rules for counterinsurgency, counterinsurgency failure: a dozen ways to do it, counterinsurgency program organization: it can work in its specifics but still be overwhelmed, counterinsurgency and the Potemkin Village, and the solders they send. Annotation c2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

David Donovan is the pen name of Terry T. Turner, a former advisor in a counterinsurgency program in Vietnam. For the last 35 years he has been a scientist and university professor and is currently professor emeritus at the University of Virginia. He lives in Coolidge, Georgia.