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Edward Lansdale, Prototype For `Ugly American,' Dies
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Edward Geary Lansdale, 79, a retired Air Force major general who
spent most of his career as a counterinsurgency specialist in the
Philippines and South Vietnam, where he developed the doctrine that
communism could best be defeated by "winning the hearts and minds of
the people," died of a heart ailment Feb. 23 at his home in McLean.
Gen. Lansdale was an influential and often controversial figure
who helped shape U.S. policy in Southeast Asia at critical junctures
during the 1950s and 1960s. He was an assistant for special
operations to secretary of defense Robert S. McNamara during the ...
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