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| name = Rufus Phillips
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1929|8|10}}
| birth_place = Middletown, Ohio
| alma_mater = Yale University
}}

Rufus C. Phillips III (born August 10, 1929) is an American writer, businessman, politician, and Central Intelligence Agency employee.

Life

Phillips was born in Middletown, Ohio and was raised in rural Charlotte County, Virginia.[1] He was educated at Woodberry Forest School and Yale University and was a young Central Intelligence Agency officer in Saigon in the 1950s.[2]

In 1954, Phillips joined the United States Army and served as a military advisor to the South Vietnam government. Phillips was a protégé of General Edward Lansdale and participated in the 1962 RAND Counterinsurgency Symposium alongside other counterinsurgency experts such as David Galula and Frank Kitson.[3] In Vietnam, Phillips was one af the architects of the Chieu Hoi program to persuade Vietcong fighters to defect. Phillips then lived in Fairfax County, Virginia and was president of the Inter-Continental Consultants, Inc. He served on the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors and was a Democrat. He ran for the United States House of Representatives in 1974, and lost the primary election.[4][5][6]

Phillips is the author of Why Vietnam Matters: An Eyewitness Account of Lessons Not Learned.[7] He is a regular guest on The John Batchelor Show and discusses topics on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.{{Citation needed|date=April 2018}}

Works

  • Why Vietnam Matters: An Eyewitness Account of Lessons Not Learned Naval Institute Press, 2017. {{ISBN|9781682473108}}, {{OCLC|992225373}}

References

1. ^{{cite web|last=Kennedy|first=Charles Stuart|title=Interview with Rufus C. Phillips, III|url=http://international.loc.gov/service/mss/mssmisc/mfdip/2005%20txt%20files/2004phi04.txt|publisher=The Library of Congress|accessdate=4 September 2012}}
2. ^'Fairfax Democrat Joins Senate Race,' The Washington Post, Ken Ringle, November 20, 1977
3. ^{{Cite book|url=http://www.rand.org/pubs/reports/R412-1|title=Counterinsurgency: A Symposium, April 16–20, 1962|last=Hosmer|first=Stephen T.|last2=Crane|first2=S. O.|date=|journal=|publisher=RAND Corporation|year=2006|isbn=|volume=|location=Santa Monica, CA|pages=|access-date=2018-04-10|archive-url=|archive-date=|via=}}
4. ^{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/25/opinion/25iht-edscott.html|title=In Iraq's prisons: A little tenderness can turn around insurgents|last1=Gerwehr|first1=Scott|date=2005-08-26|work=The New York Times|accessdate=2010-08-01|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|last2=Hachigian|first2=Nina}}
5. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1977/11/20/faifax-democrat-joins-senate-race/0587dceb-337e-44c1-87d2-f80ff37bacab/|title=Faifax Democrat Joins Senate Race|last=Ringle|first=Ken|date=1977-11-20|work=Washington Post|access-date=2018-04-10|language=en-US|issn=0190-8286}}
6. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=274097|title=Candidate - Rufus Phillips|last=|first=|date=|website=Our Campaigns|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=2018-04-10}}
7. ^{{cite news |title=Vietnam, Allied invasion of Italy |url=http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/feb/22/books-vietnam-allied-invasion-of-italy/ |work=The Washington Times |date=February 22, 2009 |accessdate=August 1, 2010 }}

External links

  • Interview with Rufus C. Phillips, III
  • Meeting Lt. Col. David Galula - April 1962
  • Why Vietnam Matters
  • Webcast Interview at the Pritzker Military Museum & Library on November 22, 2008
  • {{C-SPAN|Rufus Phillips}}
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16 : 1929 births|Living people|People from Middletown, Ohio|People from Charlotte County, Virginia|People from Fairfax County, Virginia|Military personnel from Ohio|American people of the Vietnam War|Yale University alumni|Businesspeople from Virginia|United States Army personnel|People of the Central Intelligence Agency|Virginia Democrats|Members of the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors|Writers from Ohio|Writers from Virginia|American male writers

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