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2 unusual facts about Operation Cedar Falls


Operation Cedar Falls

While writing from completely different, if not opposed, political points of view, both journalist Stanley Karnow and political scientist Guenter Lewy cite the deportations of Operation Cedar Falls as an example of a larger military strategy which deliberately displaced hundreds of thousands of the very people the US claimed to defend and thus alienated them from the South Vietnamese regime and their American allies.

Phillip Davidson is one of the few authors who sees it as part of a meaningful broader strategy.



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