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Jeffrey Race
Jeffrey Race is the author of ''War Comes to Long An'', originally published on 1972 and re-published with additional material in 2010. The book is based on his interviews with Vietnamese and Vietnamese documents, both government and communist, in Long An province in what was then South Vietnam. Described as a "military classic", Race attempted to answer the question of why one side in the Vietnam War could better motivate its followers than the other. His conclusion was that by 1965, before the large scale introduction of American military forces into the war, the communist Viet Cong had already won the battle of "Hearts and Minds".〔''Small Wars Journal'', http://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/war-comes-to-long-an-back-story-to-the-writing-of-a-military-classic, accessed 13 Aug 2015〕
==Life==
Race grew up in Fairfield County, Connecticut and attended Harvard University from 1961 to 1965, majoring in government. In June 1965, he was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the U.S. Army's Signal Corps. He served with the army in Vietnam from October 1965 to June 1967. the first year as a signals office, the second year as a member of a U.S. military advisory team in Xuyen Moc District of Phuoc Tuy province, east of Saigon. During the nearly two years he spent as a military officer in South Vietnam, Race learned to speak and read the Vietnamese language.
Race returned to South Vietnam in July 1967 as an independent researcher and spent nearly one year in Long An province and Saigon collecting data from interviews and South Vietnamese and communist documents. In mid-1968, he was hired by the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) to work in Thailand. In 1969, he returned to the United States to complete a PhD at Harvard utilizing the material he had gathered in South Vietnam. Race lived in Thailand for most of the subsequent years. self-employed as an adviser to the U.S. military and American companies doing business in Southeast Asia and as head of an electronics company.〔Race, Jeffrey, (Winter 2011) "War Comes to Long An, its Origins and Legacies: An interview with Jeffrey Race", ''Journal of Vietnamese Studies'', Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 123-183. Downloaded from JSTOR.〕
The precursor to ''War Comes to Long An'' was Race's 1970 article titled "How They Won" which summarized the findings he would present two years later in the book.〔Race, Jeffrey (Aug 1970), "How They Won", ''Asian Survey'', Vol. 10, No. 8, "Vietnam Politics, Land Reform and Development in the Countryside, pg. 628-650. Downloaded from JSTOR.〕 The article—especially the provocative title five years before North Vietnam defeated South Vietnam—engendered for Race an invitation to a Department of Defense seminar titled "lessons learned in pacification." He walked out of the seminar because the chairman refused to discuss "theoretical" conclusions. Race described the experience as "crimestop."〔''Small Wars Journal'', http://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/war-comes-to-long-an-back-story-to-the-writing-of-a-military-classic, accessed 13 Aug 2015〕
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