little things that go behind the big picture. This is the case in times of war as well. Most

people think that in war there are just soldiers out in the field shooting at each other.

However there is more to warfare than just bullets flying everywhere. In the Vietnam

war, everyone knew about the Viet Cong and their tactics they used. What most people

do not know is that the United States also had their own strategies and counterinsurgency

tactics to counter the North Vietnam and Viet Cong. My purpose is to inform the readers

that the US, who talked so much of Vietnam's aggression into the South, also had their

own aggression and counterinsurgency tactics, which were very necessary and also very

atrocious and shocking as the Viet Cong. This aggression was carried out through a

highly secretive program called "The Phoenix Program".

The Phoenix Program was an operation to counter the Viet Cong. Before further

discussing what the Phoenix Program was, one must first truly understand the Viet Cong

to see why the United States felt it was necessary to install the Phoenix Progra

CIA. The PRUs and SEALs often worked together and came to symbolize sneak attacks

neutralize the VCI. Now all they needed was a formative period to allow the US

he saw that the CIA was the only civilian organization equipped to fill the role. It was

program." The Phoenix program killed thousands of VC. Although the program may

PRU needed additional intelligence gathered from interrogations to continue its success.

more emphasis on the capture to gain intelligence.

parts as long as the infrastructure remained in place.

soldiers that wreaked havoc on the VCI throughout South Vietnam. They were the

The CIA reasoning behind the creation of the PRU was that an unconventional

forces because of the their negligence of the Viet Cong.

other building supplies into South Vietnamese's rural countryside. Unfortunately, many

Vietnam war. The Viet Cong were saying, "What really hurt us was that Phoenix

the minds of the South Vietnamese bureaucracy, overpower the communist insurgency.

The turning point in the war came in 1968 by the Tet Offensive. Viet Cong

headquarters. He or she then went to Saigon where they might remain for two months.

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