Loved the interview, massive respect for Orville Schell. But I fear he slipped on Lansdale: Col. Edward Lansdale in the late 1950s was an american military advisor to the Ngo Dinh Diem government, working with the CIA, while the architects of the Malaya counterinsurgency were British Lt. Gen. Sir Harold Briggs and Lt. Gen. Sir Gerald Templer. The U.S. did take a page out of their book with the village resettlement program, though. Lansdale role in CIA sponsored operations in Asia during the early decades of the Cold War is well detailed in Scott Anderson's The Quiet Americans.
Loved the interview, massive respect for Orville Schell. But I fear he slipped on Lansdale: Col. Edward Lansdale in the late 1950s was an american military advisor to the Ngo Dinh Diem government, working with the CIA, while the architects of the Malaya counterinsurgency were British Lt. Gen. Sir Harold Briggs and Lt. Gen. Sir Gerald Templer. The U.S. did take a page out of their book with the village resettlement program, though. Lansdale role in CIA sponsored operations in Asia during the early decades of the Cold War is well detailed in Scott Anderson's The Quiet Americans.