Instead he used most of his funding from the United States to construct elaborate Viet Cong eradication programs, such as his Strategic Hamlet program. He turned the people on himself through programs as such, relocating innocent peasants to hamlets, bearing a striking resemblance to concentration camps, where they were closely monitored and confined to deter Viet Cong activity (Tucker 87). ... Although Diem's time as dictator was relatively short, his actions turned many Viet Minh, with just cause, against the Americans, and they"re fellow countrymen. ...

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Army cabled Washington that he expected the North Vietnamese Army and the Vietcong to undertake an intensified countrywide effort, perhaps a maximum effort over a relatively short period. ... Over 85,000 NLF soldiers simultaneously struck at thirty-six of forty four provincial capitals, five of six major cities, sixty-four district towns, and fifty hamlets across the length and breadth of South Vietnam such as Hue, Nha Trang, Ho Chi Minh, Ban Me Thuot, Kontum, Hoi An, Qui Nhon, Pleiku, Tuy Hoa, Phan Thiet and every provincial and district capital in the Mekong Delta The U.S. ... In March 196...

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Caputo decided to volunteer for duty with a combat battalion ager working only a short time with the staff many because of boredom. ... e then proceeds to fire a hamlet on the village without any concern whether it was a VC village. ...

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