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• Agency for International Development [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Armored fighting vehicle [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Armored personnel carrier [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Army of the Republic of Viet Nam motivation [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Army of the Republic of Viet Nam [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Battle of Ap Bac [r]: Fought on January 2, 1963, a small but politically significant battle of the Vietnam War, won by the Viet Cong against Army of the Republic of Viet Nam (ARVN) troops with United States Army advisors. It was significant in that the command failures were publicized to the press by John Paul Vann; denials by U.S. senior commanders started the pattern of aggressive investigative journalism ^[e]
• Binh Xuyen [r]: A South Vietnamese group, primarily an organized crime syndicate but with political influence, largely wiped out under the authority of Ngo Dinh Diem ^[e]
• CIA activities in Vietnam [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Clandestine cell system [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Combat engineer [r]: Ground combat troops trained and equipped to improve the mobility of one's own side by breaching enemy obstacles, building bridges, etc.; blocking enemy mobility with barriers, demolition, mine warfare, etc. ^[e]
• Communism [r]: A political ideology, and also a system of government, according to which the means of production (including all large business concerns) should be controlled by the government. ^[e]
• Dau tranh [r]: A term of art used in Vietnamese Communist revolutionary war theory, roughly translated to "struggle", and having components of political action, guerrilla warfare, and psychological warfare. ^[e]
• David Halberstam [r]: Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author, who was especially controversial for his coverage of the Vietnam War, where some thought he was providing critical investigation for the public, while others believed he was undermining the war effort ^[e]
• Democratic Republic of Vietnam [r]: Communist state in Vietnam; formally the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. Proclaimed 1945, recognized 1954, and with South Vietnam transformed into the Socialist Republic of Vietnam in 1976 ^[e]
• Douglas Pike [r]: U.S. Foreign Service Officer and academic, an expert on the Viet Cong and Vietnam in general ^[e]
• Establish Your Identity interrogation techniques [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Foreign internal defense operations [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Frederick Nolting Jr. [r]: U.S. ambassador and head of the United States Mission to the Republic of Vietnam, from May 10 to August 15, 1963. A career Foreign Service Officer, he was preceded by Elbridge Durbrow, and succeeded by Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.. A supporter of Ngo Dinh Diem, he did not agree with the policy of U.S. support for a coup against Diem. ^[e]
• George Ball [r]: Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, who regularly advised against escalation in the Vietnam War, believing it detracted from U.S. priorities in Europe ^[e]
• I Corps tactical zone [r]: The geographic command, under the Army of the Republic of Viet Nam, for the northernmost provinces of South Vietnam. It directly faced North Vietnam across the Demilitarized Zone, as well as having an important boundary with Laos. ^[e]
• IV Corps tactical zone [r]: The southernmost regional command of the Army of the Republic of Viet Nam, including the Mekong River Delta. ^[e]
• John Paul Vann [r]: Influential field operator in the Vietnam War, first as a United States Army advisor and lieutenant colonel, who later worked for the Agency for International Development in a role with the authority of a major general ^[e]
• Military Assistance Command, Vietnam [r]: Headquarters for most U.S. combat and support units assisting the Republic of Vietnam ^[e]
• National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Neil Sheehan [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Operation ATTLEBORO [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Operation CEDAR FALLS [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Operation Starlight [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Paratroop [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Paul Harkins [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Pleiku [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Republic of Vietnam [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Stanley Larsen [r]: Add brief definition or description
• U.S. advisers in the Vietnam War [r]: Add brief definition or description
• U.S. foreign military assistance organizations [r]: Add brief definition or description
• USS Skagit (AKA-105) [r]: Add brief definition or description
• USS Tulare (AKA-112) [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Viet Minh [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Viet Nam Workers' Party [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Vietnam War [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Vietnamese Buddhism [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Vietnam wars [r]: Add brief definition or description