(print) ix, 338 p. ; 22 cm
"A Publication of the Mershon Center for Education in National Security."

Introduction 3 -- Arena of Decisions : The Early 1960's 13 -- Development of a Doctrine : Civic Action 53 -- Administrative and Planning Agencies : A Program without a Bureaucracy 91 -- Training 141 -- Civic Action and Counterinsurgency 179 -- Armies for Progress? 217 -- Appendixes -- A. Illegal and Unscheduled Changes of Heads of State, 1930-1965, by Country (Part I) and by Year (Part II) 249 -- B. U.S. National Objectives Relating to Overseas Internal Defense 266 -- C. Resolution III on Military Co-operation of 1951 Meeting of Foreign Ministers 268 -- D. Resolution XLVII of the Inter-American Defense Board (1960), on the Contribution of Armed Services to Economic and Social Development 271 -- E. Resolution II of Punta del Este (1962), the Eighth Meeting of Foreign Ministers, on Subversive International Communism 273 -- F. Precis of the Counterinsurgency Course (1963), the Special Warfare School, Fort Bragg, North Carolina 275 -- G. Texts of a Military Assistance Agreement of the Military Mission Agreement, and of Exchanges of Notes on Internal Security 277 -- H. "Problem Areas" : An Excerpt from "Military Civic Action," Prepared by the Department of the Army 296 -- I. Text of Resolutions Regarding the Dominican Republic (1965), Adopted by the Tenth Meeting of Consultation of Foreign Ministers (Inter-American Peace Force) 299 -- A Selected Bibliography 309 -- Index 331