In Vietnam, strategic hamlets would consist of villages consolidated and reshaped to create a defensible perimeter.

Moreover, the strategic hamlets would not be isolated; instead, they would function as a network.

But, Thompson said, it was important that the strategic hamlets provide more than just physical security.

Thảo helped to ruin Nhu's scheme by having strategic hamlets built in communist strongholds.

Because NATO above all desires no casualties, its forces are concentrated in safe areas reminiscent of the "strategic hamlets" of the Vietnam War.

This involved forcibly moving peasants into fortified 'strategic hamlets' in order to deny the VC bases of support.

That spring and fall, American troops conducted operations there to engage the enemy and drive peasants out of villages and into heavily guarded "strategic hamlets."

Is that the same 1950's expertise that later came up with strategic hamlets and body counts and carpet bombing?

In Vietnam, they were called "strategic hamlets."

As Đính spent most of October in the capital plotting instead of inspecting the countryside, the communists began to systematically dismantle the strategic hamlets.