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...David P. Chandler In the Midst of Wars: An American's Mission to Southeast Asia . By Edward Geary Lansdale , Major General USAF (Ret.). New York : Harper and Row , 1972 . 386 pp. Index, Maps. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1975 1975 856 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

... for Asian Studies, Inc. 1975 1975 BOOK REVIEWS 857 political life. Diem accepted the memorandum showdown from France and the United States. (what else could he do?) because he needed A crucial cable from Lansdale to Allen Dul- American support. Lansdale told him that he les (transmitted when Collins...

... by the British administrators but by their articulate and restive subjects. EMILY C. BROWN University of Northern Iowa In the Midst of Wars: An American's Mission to Southeast Asia. By EDWARD GEARY LANSDALE, MAJOR GENERAL USAF (Ret New York: Harper and Row, 1972. 386 pp. Index, Maps. About halfway through...

... Minh The the Cao Dai swashbuckler and military leader whom CIA agent Edward G. Lansdale touted as a great nationalist hero of South Vietnam is the object of this revisionist analysis of the origins of the Ngo Dinh Diem regime. At first covering familiar ground, the study places Diem's rise to power...

... Publishers, 2001. xi, 246 pp. $34.00 (cloth). Trinh Minh The the Cao Dai swashbuckler and military leader whom CIA agent Edward G. Lansdale touted as a great nationalist hero of South Vietnam is the object of this revisionist analysis of the origins of the Ngo Dinh Diem regime. At first covering familiar...

.... Nonetheless, the destruction of the sects by Diem and Lansdale created a political vacuum of which the Viet Cong took advantage. How Diem and Nhu managed to come from nowhere and suddenly control South Vietnam and then just as suddenly lose it merits reexamination. Sergei Blagov, using Vietnamese-language...

... of cooperation between the various intelligence operations which were run, for example, by President Diem's brother Ngo Dinh Can in Central Vietnam, and in Saigon by another brother, Ngo Dinh Nhu, with the help of Tran Kim Tuyen. From interviews with General Edward Lansdale, who was a member of the CIA team...

... after a visit from his friend Edward Lansdale, who was on a brief vacation from his new CIA assignment in Saigon. Despite some imperfections, Nick Cullather has produced a thoroughly researched and well-argued work that will necessitate a second look at previous studies. This provocative book should...

.... In this respect, Tourison can join the likes of Edward Lansdale and General John E. Murray, who have maintained that too much attention was focused on what the RVN armed forces could not do and very little on what they could do, particularly in the face of adversity. As Tourison put it: "The failure can...

.... Pardo de Tavera; Governor Leonard Wood and Senate President Manuel Quezon; General Douglas MacArthur and Commonwealth President Sergio Osmena; CIA agent Edward Lansdale and Defense Secretary Ramon Magsaysay; and, finally, President Ferdinand Marcos and President Ronald Reagan. To construct his narrative...

... President Sergio Osmena; CIA agent Edward Lansdale and Defense Secretary Ramon Magsaysay; and, finally, President Ferdinand Marcos and President Ronald Reagan. To construct his narrative at this micro level, Brands has mined a mountain of American archives for gem-like quotations that he deftly displays...

... highly suspect and have been especially harsh in their judgments of the influence on Magsaysay of then Major Edward Lansdale. Perhaps what these critics, in their eagerness to propound new "devil theories," have failed to understand was the "success" of the United States in fostering through education...

... of Magsaysay's character highly suspect and have been especially harsh in their judgments of the influence on Magsaysay of then Major Edward Lansdale. Perhaps what these critics, in their eagerness to propound new "devil theories," have failed to understand was the "success" of the United States in fostering...

... including "admiration" for the infamous counterinsurgent Edward Geary Lansdale, "his views, and his activities in Asia in the 1950s and 1960s" (p. 336) in many ways makes this book read more like a State Department white paper from the Cold War era than a detached piece of serious scholarship. In short...

... and then to Europe. Herring, Hess, and Immerman collaborate on an examination of the survival of Ngo Dinh Diem during the 1955 sects crisis. The three authors downgrade the role played by Colonel Edward G. Lansdale and the CIA and upgrade Senator Mike Mansfield's part in supporting Diem. Pierre Melandri and Denise...

... preserve undemocratic features of Philippine politics. Remarkably elided or given very slight mention is the role of the Americans in preserving the dominance of landed elites, especially when threatened by movements from below, most notably the role of Edward Lansdale in the suppression of the Huks...

..., Magsaysay eventually recognized Ngo Dinh Diem's government even though he had balked for a time. The Philippine president's change in policy came in July 1955 after a visit from his friend Edward Lansdale, who was on a brief vacation from his new CIA assignment in Saigon. Despite some imperfections, Nick...

..., too, is seen to have risen to power through palace coups. Here Hatcher is more specific, describing Diem's successful struggles against Bao Dai, Nguyen Van Hinh, the Cao Dai, Hoa Hao, and Binh Xuyen. All were apparently conducted without benefit of outside aid; Edward Lansdale does not even make...

... is Ambassador Lodge, propping up General Khanh in 1964 (Vietnam, 2:140): "I gave him the text of a 'fireside chat' [sic] which I hope he will make on the radio and on film." And here is General Lansdale, recalling Ngo Dinh Diem's arrival in Saigon in 1954 (Many Reasons Why, p. 55): Ifeltifthis is going...

...: A Study of Agrarian Unrest in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries [WILLIAM H. FREDERICK] 566 LANSDALE, In the Midst of Wars: An American's Mission to Southeast Asia [DAVID P. CHANDLER] 856 LANSING, Evil in the Morning of the World: Phenomenological Approaches to a Balinese Com- munity [JAMES...