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 Finding Aid: Douglas Pike Collection: Unit 03 - Insurgency Warfare Item Number: 2170000000

Pike Collection
Location: Math Stacks 3


Scope & Content:

  • Theoretical and intellectual background materials on guerrilla operations during the war in three Subsections on Psyops, Revolutionary Guerrilla War, and Counter-Insurgency. This section examines psychological operations, the concept of revolutionary guerrilla war and counter-insurgency tactics during the Vietnam Conflict. Material examines the nature and theory behind insurgency warfare and some of the international means to combat it. Issues such as communication and propaganda, the Viet Minh and the Leninist's view of "wars of national liberation" are examined. The counter-insurgency materials cover the regional actions in Asia, the Malayan Emergency, the Huk rebellion in the Philippines and the "people's war" of Mao Tse-tung and Lin Piao.

Biographical Note:

  • Professor Pike was born in 1925. He served as a journalist in the Army during World War II (in the Pacific Theater of Operations) and during the Korean Conflict. He earned degrees from the University of California-Berkeley and American University. He served as an FSO in Taiwan, Korea, Lebanon, and Vietnam. In 1982 he began teaching at UC-Berkeley and in 1997 moved Texas Tech University. Professor Pike housed and supported the Collection until 1982 when he moved it to Berkeley. It remained there until 1992 when Berkeley considered discontinuing its support for the Indo-China Studies Project. After being approached by Professor Pike, Dr. James Reckner, Director of the Vietnam Center at Tech, and Dr. David Murrah, Assistant Director of Libraries for the Special Collections, worked together to bring the Collection to the Archive in 1994

Access Level:

  • Unrestricted

Collection Inventory:

LocationBoxFolderContents
131
Insurgency Warfare (Psy-Ops General Literature), Overview
2
Insurgency Warfare (Psy-Ops General Literature), Overview
3
Insurgency Warfare (Psy-Ops General Literature), 1960-1964
4
Insurgency Warfare (Psy-Ops Clippings), 1960-1964
5
Insurgency Warfare (Psy-Ops General Literature), 1965
6
Insurgency Warfare (Psy-Ops General Literature), 1965
7
Insurgency Warfare (Psy-Ops Clippings), 1965
8
Insurgency Warfare (Psy-Ops General Literature), 1966
9
Insurgency Warfare (Psy-Ops General Literature), 1966
10
Insurgency Warfare (Psy-Ops Clippings), 1966
11
Insurgency Warfare (Psy-Ops General Literature), 1967
12
Insurgency Warfare (Psy-Ops General Literature), 1967
13
Insurgency Warfare (Psy-Ops General Literature), 1967
14
Insurgency Warfare (Psy-Ops General Literature), 1967
15
Insurgency Warfare (Psy-Ops Clippings), 1967
16
Insurgency Warfare (Psy-Ops General Literature), 1968
17
Insurgency Warfare (Psy-Ops General Literature), 1968
141
Insurgency Warfare (Psy-Ops General Literature), 1968
2
Insurgency Warfare (Psy-Ops General Literature), 1968
3
Insurgency Warfare (Psy-Ops Clippings), 1968
4
Insurgency Warfare (Psy-Ops General Literature), 1969
5
Insurgency Warfare (Psy-Ops General Literature), 1969
6
Insurgency Warfare (Psy-Ops Clippings), 1969
7
Insurgency Warfare (Psy-Ops General Literature), 1970
8
Insurgency Warfare (Psy-Ops Clippings), 1970
9
Insurgency Warfare (Psy-Ops General Literature), 1971
10
Insurgency Warfare (Psy-Ops Clippings), 1971
11
Insurgency Warfare (Psy-Ops General Literature), 1972
12
Insurgency Warfare (Psy-Ops Clippings), 1972
13
Insurgency Warfare (Psy-Ops General Literature), 1973
14
Insurgency Warfare (Psy-Ops General Literature), 1973
15
Insurgency Warfare (Psy-Ops General Literature), 1974
16
Insurgency Warfare (Psy-Ops General Literature), 1974
17
National Catalog of Psy-Ops Material, 1969-1970
18
National Catalog of Psy-Ops Material, 1969-1970
19
National Catalog of Psy-Ops Material, 1969-1970
20
Final Technical Report - Psychological Operations Study Vietnam, Volume I
21
Final Technical Report - Psychological Operations Study Vietnam, Volume II
151
Revolutionary Guerilla War (General Literature), 1952-1962
2
Revolutionary Guerilla War (Clippings), 1952-1962
3
Revolutionary Guerilla War (General Literature), 1963-1965
4
Revolutionary Guerilla War (Clippings), 1963-1965
5
Revolutionary Guerilla War (General Literature), 1966
6
Revolutionary Guerilla War (General Literature), 1966
7
Revolutionary Guerilla War (Clippings), 1966
8
Revolutionary Guerilla War (General Literature), 1967
9
Revolutionary Guerilla War (Clippings), 1967
10
Revolutionary Guerilla War (General Literature), 1968
11
Revolutionary Guerilla War (Clippings), 1968
12
Revolutionary Guerilla War (General Literature), 1969
13
Revolutionary Guerilla War (Clippings), 1969
14
Deception and Surprise in War, Part I, 1969
15
Deception and Surprise in War, Part II, 1969
161
Revolutionary Guerilla War (General Literature), 1970
2
Revolutionary Guerilla War (General Literature), 1970
3
Revolutionary Guerilla War (Clippings), 1970
4
Revolutionary Guerilla War (General Literature), 1971-1972
5
Revolutionary Guerilla War (Clippings), 1971-1972
6
Revolutionary Guerilla War (General Literature), 1973-1975
7
Revolutionary Guerilla War (Clippings), 1973-1975
8
Revolutionary Guerilla War (General Literature), 1976
9
Revolutionary Guerilla War (Clippings), 1976
10
Revolutionary Guerilla War (General Literature), 1977-1980
11
Revolutionary Guerilla War (Clippings), 1977-1980
12
Revolutionary Guerilla War (General Literature), 1981-1983
13
Revolutionary Guerilla War (Clippings), 1981-1983
14
Revolutionary Guerilla War (General Literature), 1984-1985
15
Revolutionary Guerilla War (Clippings), 1984-1985
16
Revolutionary Guerilla War (General Literature), 1986-1991
17
Revolutionary Guerilla War (Clippings), 1986-1991
171
Counter-Insurgency (General Literature), 1962
2
Counter-Insurgency (General Literature), 1963-1969
3
Counter-Insurgency (Clippings), 1963-1969
4
Counter-Insurgency (General Literature), 1970-1993
5
Counter-Insurgency (Clippings), 1970-1993
6
Counter-Insurgency (Clippings), 1970-1993
7
Wars of National Liberation (General Literature), 1962-1968
8
Wars of National Liberation (Clippings), 1961-1968
9
Wars of National Liberation (General Literature), 1969-1985
10
Wars of National Liberation (Clippings), 1969-1988
11
Wars of National Liberation - China (General Literature), 1960-1981
12
Wars of National Liberation - China (Clippings), 1962-1976
13
Wars of National Liberation - Regional (General Literature)1957-1969
14
Wars of National Liberation - Regional (General Literature)1970-1987
15
Wars of National Liberation (Clippings), 1965-1988
181
Seminar on Countering Communist Subversion Manuals, 1957
2
Readings in Counter-Guerrilla Operations, 1961
3
Special Forces Officer Course, 1961
4
U.S. Marine Corps - Operations Against Guerilla Forces 1962
5
MATA Handbook for Vietnam, 1966
6
Advisor Handbook for Stability Operations FM31-73, 1967
7
Handbook Evaluation System Handbook, 1969
8
Hamlet Evaluation System Handbook (Vietnamese Translation)1969
9
RF/PF People's Self-Defense Force, 1969
10
Ranger Handbook, 1969
11
RF/PF Advisor Handbook, 1971
12
Revised HES Handbook Question-Set and Glossary, 1971
13
Hamlet Evaluation System Advisors Handbook, 1971

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