Rufus Phillips
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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.
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- ↑ [1] Hosmer, Stephen T. and S. O. Crane. Counterinsurgency: A Symposium, April 16–20, 1962. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2006.
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