Author profile: David Hunt

David Hunt is Professor of history at University of Massachusetts/Boston. He is the author of Vietnam’s Southern Revolution: From Peasant Insurrection to Total War (Amherst MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2008); and also “Dirty Wars: Counterinsurgency in Vietnam and Today,” Politics and Society 38/1 (2010), 35-68.

Review – US Special Forces and Counterinsurgency in Vietnam

David Hunt • Jul 27 2013 • Features

Ives’ strange book tells and retells the same story about U.S. Special Forces and counterinsurgency, repeating traditional criticisms of U.S. strategy in Vietnam.

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