The Strategic Hamlet Program was a plan by the governments of South Vietnam and the United States during the Vietnam War to combat the Communist forces by means of population transfer.
In 1961, US advisors in South Vietnam, along with the Diem regime, began the implementation of a plan attempted to isolate rural peasants from contact with and influence by the National Liberation Front (NLF). The Strategic Hamlet Program, along with its predecessor, the Rural Community Development Program, played an important role in the shaping of events in South Vietnam during the late 1950s and early 1960s. Both of these programs attempted to create new communities of “protected hamlets”.
The rural peasants would be physically isolated from the communist forces and their support services, thereby strengthening ties with the South Vietnamese government. It was hoped this would lead to increased loyalty by the peasantry towards the Southern region. In the end, the program led to a decrease in support for Diem’s regime and an increase in sympathy for the Communist forces.
After Ngo Dinh Diem was overthrown in a coup in November 1963, the program greatly waned and peasants moved back into their native areas.
A river in Dak Lak viewed from an airplane.
Vietnamese and American soldiers at a military station in Dak Lak. Inside a strategic hamlet in Dak Lak. The fence of the strategic hamlet. Children in the strategic hamlet. In another strategic hamlet. The market in a strategic hamlet. A new house in a strategic hamlet. American soldiers wash their cars in a stream. |
US air-freighter on the runway of Lac Giao Airport, Buon Me Thuot.
A road in Dak Lak, Vietnam’s Central Highlands.
Vietnam in 1963-1964 through the lens of Al Adcock
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