| 单词 | strategic hamlet |
| 释义 | > as lemmasstrategic hamlet strategic hamlet n. now chiefly historical (in the Vietnam War (1955–75)) a fortified village in rural Vietnam intended to protect the local people from intimidation or attack by the Vietcong, insulate them from Vietcong propaganda, and thereby ensure the cooperation of the rural population in the war; also in extended use of similar counter-insurgency measures in other contexts.The strategic hamlet programme was developed in 1961 by the governments of South Vietnam and the United States, replacing the previous Vietnamese policy of creating agrovilles (agroville n.). The programme was considered a failure and had effectively ended by 1964. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > village > [noun] > other types of village post village1673 mill village1834 lake-settlement1863 pile village1863 lake-village1865 lake-hamlet1878 pile settlement1878 garden village1892 tree-village1901 model village1906 street village1928 strategic hamlet1963 1963 Times 21 Jan. 9/7 A vast campaign to build ‘strategic hamlets’ has been launched in every province... President Ngo Dinh Diem has described 1962 as the ‘year of the strategic hamlets’. 1975 New Yorker 5 May 131/1 What were we doing to the South Vietnamese, with our ‘strategic hamlets’? 1991 J. Chang Wild Swans (1993) iii. 86 In the vast expanses of northern Manchuria villages were being burned and the surviving population herded into ‘strategic hamlets’. 2013 R. Jeffreys-Jones In Spies we Trust vii In July, the CIA reported the establishment of 2,000 strategic hamlets not just there but in other areas of South Vietnam, and announced plans for 7,000 more. < as lemmas |
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