Rufus Phillips

Rufus Phillips was born in Middletown, Ohio on August 10, 1929 and raised in rural Virginia.[1] He was educated at Yale and was a young C.I.A. officer in Saigon in the 1950s. Phillips was a protégé of General Edward Lansdale and participated in the 1962 RAND Counterinsurgency Symposium alongside other counterinsurgency experts such as David Galula and Frank Kitson.[2] In Vietnam, Phillips was one af the architects of the Chieu Hoi program to persuade Vietcong fighters to defect.[3]

Phillips is the author of Why Vietnam Matters: An Eyewitness Account of Lessons Not Learned.[4] He is a regular guest on The John Batchelor Show and discusses topics on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

References

  1. ↑ Kennedy, Charles Stuart. "Interview with Rufus C. Phillips, III". The Library of Congress. Retrieved 4 September 2012.
  2. ↑ Hosmer, Stephen T. and S. O. Crane. Counterinsurgency: A Symposium, April 16–20, 1962. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2006.
  3. ↑ Gerwehr, Scott; Hachigian, Nina (August 26, 2005). "In Iraq's prisons: A little tenderness can turn around insurgents". The New York Times. Retrieved August 1, 2010.
  4. ↑ "Vietnam, Allied invasion of Italy". The Washington Times. February 22, 2009. Retrieved August 1, 2010.

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