Abstract: In 1961, the government of South Vietnam (GVN) along with several United States advisors and Sir Robert Thompson, (who was personally engaged with the successful Malayan relocation), began modifying the Agroville Plan into what was known as the Strategic Hamlet Program. The new plan arranged for smaller villages (less than a thousand) constructed on both current and newly inhabited hamlets. The GVN wanted to form a new network with the objective that the Vietnamese peasants would come to accept Diem and his regime as the legitimate. This program made an effort to detach the peasants from insurgents by constructing equipped villages and forcing them to take a vigorous responsibility in the civil war. The program failed considerably and eventually led to a decline in support for Diem's regime and a rise in support for Communist efforts.

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