Defeating Communist Insurgency: Experiences from Malaya and Vietnam

First published in the mid-60s, this book is still the one by which all other counterinsurgency books are judged. Based on the author's successful experience in Malaya, and his subsequent advisory work for the Americans in Vietnam, his keys to victory and success have not changed with time:"It is a persistently methodical approach and steady pressure which will gradually wear the insurgent down. The government must not...