Strategic Hamlet Program/Definition

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A definition or brief description of Strategic Hamlet Program.

A program for rural security and counterinsurgency, under the South Vietnamese government of Ngo Dinh Diem and directed by his brother and advisor Ngo Dinh Nhu; its success or failure was considered a metric for the Diem government