Stalking Vietcong: Inside Operation Phoenix

As a district-level Phoenix officer in Vietnam from February 1971 to August 1972, Stuart Herrington's job was to root out insurgency in the villages and hamlets of Duc Hue. Operation Phoenix (the program organized to destroy the Vietcong's shadow government) had already discovered how difficult this was: local officials were reluctant to cooperate; villagers were silent. Herrington's story reads like a spy story but is doubly poignant because of its truth.