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• Agency for International Development [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Can Lao [r]: A South Vietnamese semisecret political organization controlled by the Diem brothers ^[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]
• Foreign internal defense [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Frederick Nolting Jr. [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Vietnam [r]: A country in Southeast Asia, neighboring China, Laos, and Cambodia, and with seacoast on the Gulf of Thailand, Gulf of Tonkin, and South China Sea. Now the unified Socialist Republic of Vietnam, under a Communist government with a market economic system, it spawned from ancient kingdoms, was a colony called French Indochina, and was partitioned into the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) and Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) between 1954 and 1975. ^[e]

• Kuomintang [r]: (KMT or GMD) is a Chinese political party that ruled China 1927-48 and then moved to Taiwan. ^[e]
• Le Van Kim [r]: A South Vietnamese general, of neutralist ideology, who distinguished himself in pacification operations but was later frozen out of politics and command ^[e]
• Mekong Delta [r]: A major agricultural area of southern Vietnam, requiring considerable irrigation engineering in spite of its extensive river network ^[e]
• Mendenhall-Krulak mission [r]: A 1963 U.S. investigating mission to South Vietnam, to assess the political and military situation there, by a career diplomat and a major general, who came up with radically different views of the situation. ^[e]
• Ngo Dinh Diem [r]: President of the Republic of Vietnam from shortly after its creation, to his overthrow and death in the Vietnam War, Buddhist crisis and military coup of 1963. He was of the Catholic minority, ascetic and autocratic, and strongly anti-Communist ^[e]
• Ngo Dinh Nhu [r]: Brother and chief political advisor to Republic of Vietnam president Ngo Dinh Diem. While he did carry out special projects such as the Strategic Hamlet Program, he primarily worked in the background, often offending opposition groups. Overthrown and killed in 1963, with his brother. ^[e]
• Nguyen Cao Ky [r]: Republic of Vietnam Air Force general, active in military coups, who served as Premier and member of several juntas ^[e]
• Operation Sunrise [r]: A 1962 pilot program, generally unsuccessful, in the Strategic Hamlet Program for pacification in South Vietnam ^[e]
• Truong Chinh [r]: North Vietnamese Politburo member and political theorist, especially advocating agrarian land reform, class struggle, and the "political dau trinh" form of strategy rather than the more military form of Vo Nguyen Giap. Both were eclipsed in power by Le Duan. ^[e]
• U.S. support to South Vietnam before Gulf of Tonkin [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Vietnam War [r]: (1955-1975) war that killed 3.8 million people, where North Vietnam fought U.S. forces and eventually took over South Vietnam, forming a single Communist country, Vietnam. ^[e]
• Vietnam wars [r]: The broad context of warfare in the modern area of Vietnam, of which the Vietnam War (1962-1975) is best known, but involves colonization, Japanese occupation, decolonization, and post-1975 but related warfare among Vietnam, Cambodia and China ^[e]
• William Colby [r]: A U.S. intelligence and special operations officer eventually becoming Director of Central Intelligence (1973-1976). ^[e]

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• Pacification in South Vietnam [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Dong Nai Province [r]: A province of Vietnam, in the Ho Chi Minh City/Saigon greater metropolitan area ^[e]
• Tay Ninh Province [r]: A province in the southwestern part of Vietnam, near Cambodia, where the first large "search and destroy" operations of the Vietnam War took place ^[e]
• U.S. Ambassador to Vietnam [r]: Add brief definition or description