Research exercise: Comparing US Counter-insurgency Actions in the Philippines in 1950s and Vietnam in 1960s: Why did One Succeed and One Fail?

Authors

Presenter(s)

Robert M. Emmett

Comments

This poster reflects research conducted as part of a course project designed to give students experience in the research process.

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Description

This topic is one of interest because in both the Philippines and Vietnam the United States gave assistance to the local government in fighting a communist insurgency. In addition, many of the key American counter-insurgency commanders involved in the Philippines later went on to play key roles in the counter-insurgency strategy in Vietnam. My research is going to look into the specific reasons why counter-insurgency was effective in the Philippines but later failed to be effective in Vietnam despite the similarity of the insurgencies and the same counter-insurgent command structure.

Publication Date

4-17-2013

Project Designation

Course Project

Primary Advisor

Anthony N. Talbott

Primary Advisor's Department

Political Science

Keywords

Stander Symposium project

Recommended Citation

"Research exercise: Comparing US Counter-insurgency Actions in the Philippines in 1950s and Vietnam in 1960s: Why did One Succeed and One Fail?" (2013). Stander Symposium Projects. 251.
https://ecommons.udayton.edu/stander_posters/251