コロンビア大学SIWPS（ザルツマン戦争と平和研究所）において、講演会が開催されました。
元CIAの陸軍工作員としてヴェトナム戦争に関わった、ルーファス・フィリップ氏が自分の経験をまとめた
著書『Why Vietnam Matters: An Eyewitness Account of Lessons Not Learned』の出版を記念した講演です。
彼が実際にヴェトナムでどのような工作を行ったか、この著書では詳細に語られています。その一部の話と、
実際の写真がここで紹介されました。研究者の研究も重要ですが、実際にこのように戦争や戦場を経験したプロの
経験談を聞くことも非常に重要です。
オバマ政権のアフガニスタン政策は、大英帝国やソ連の失敗と比較され、ヴェトナム戦争の教訓が活かされる
ことが求められています。アフガニスタン政策を泥沼化させ、さらなる混乱を引き起こさないために、
オバマ政権にはどのような戦略が必要か、議論が続けられています。
Mr.Rufus Phillips
Author, "Why Vietnam Matters: An Eyewitness Account of Lessons Not Learned"
"WHY VIETNAM MATTERS: ITS RELEVANCE TO AFGHANISTAN"
Friday, April 24, 2009
12:15pm - 2:00pm
Room 918, 9th Floor
School of International and Public Affairs
420 West 118th Street, New York City
This event is free and open to the public
Rufus Phillips served as an Army officer detailed to the Central Intelligence Agency
in Vietnam from 1954 until the end of 1956, working as a pacification advisor to
the Vietnamese Army. For his service, he received the CIA's Intelligence Medal
of Merit. Phillips also served as an advisor to Vietnamese civilian civic action
and subsequently in Laos until 1959. From 1962 to 1963, as Assistant Director
in USAID’s Saigon Mission, Phillips was responsible for counterinsurgency and
rural development. Subsequently, from 1964 through 1968, he worked as a consultant
on Vietnam to USAID, then to the State Department, making five trips to Vietnam
and acting as an advisor to Vice President Hubert Humphrey. Richard Holbrooke,
in his Foreword to Why Vietnam Matters, writes that for several crucial years
in the 1960s Phillips was "probably the best informed American on events in [Vietnam]
as a whole and perhaps the American most trusted and listened to by the Vietnamese."
Most recently, Phillips served as an outside, informal consultant to the group
working for the U.S. Army Central Command on a plan for Afghanistan
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