Douglas Pike

Douglas Eugene Pike (July 27, 1924 – May 13, 2002) was a leading American historian and foremost scholar on the Vietnam War and the Viet Cong based at Texas Tech University. From 1997, Pike was the director of the Indochina Archive at the University of California, Berkeley and from 1981 and prior to that served as Foreign Service Officer in Asia, with assignments in Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City), Hong Kong, Tokyo and Taipei. Pike served for 15 years as the State Department's leading analyst. He was considered an expert on the National Liberation Front and NVA (People's Army of Vietnam) before his death in 2002.

Pike received a degree in journalism from the University of North Dakota as a bachelor's in international communications from the University of California, Berkeley and also a MA from American University in Washington D.C. (1958). Pike worked at the MIT Center for International Studies (1963–64) a year after graduate.

He founded the journal Indochina Chronology, and has authored numerous books and articles on the war and the National Liberation Front. His book ''PAVN: People's Army of Vietnam'' has been described as "one of the two or three most significant books to emerge from the war". Provided by Wikipedia