Robert William "Blowtorch Bob" Komer (February 23, 1922 – April 9, 2000) was an American national security adviser known for managing Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development Support during the Vietnam War.

2000年4月12日 · Robert W. Komer, a point man in the United States' star-crossed campaign to win hearts and minds in Vietnam, died on Sunday after a stroke. He was 78 and lived in Arlington, Va.

2000年4月11日 · Robert W. “Blowtorch Bob” Komer, 78, Army and CIA veteran sent to South Vietnam in 1967 to run the pacification program. That program, described as the battle for the hearts and minds of the...

2013年9月11日 · Komer—whose abrasive personality, constantly blazing tobacco pipe, and ability to motivate sluggish bureaucracies earned him the nickname “Blowtorch Bob”—served as a deputy to General William Westmoreland , the commander of U.S. Military Assistance Command Vietnam (MACV).

2024年3月2日 · Robert W. Komer, 78, a hard-driving Army and CIA veteran who was one of the principal U.S. officials sent to Saigon in the 1960s to try to make a success of the nation’s commitment to the war in Vietnam, died yesterday (April 9, 2000) at Arlington Hospital after a stroke. He lived in Arlington.

2000年4月10日 · Robert W. Komer, 78, a hard-driving Army and CIA veteran who was one of the principal U.S. officials sent to Saigon in the 1960s to try to make a success of the nation's commitment to the war in...

Episode 34: Blowtorch Bob Komer When most American’s think of terrorism in New York City, they think of September 11, 2001. However, there is an entire untold history of terrorism in the city dating back decades.

Robert William "Blowtorch Bob" Komer (February 23, 1922 - April 9, 2000) was a key figure in the pacification effort to win South Vietnamese "hearts and minds" during the Vietnam War, heading Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development Support.

Robert William "Blowtorch Bob" Komer (February 23, 1922 – April 9, 2000) was a CIA officer, a United States National Security Council staffer in the Kennedy administration, was briefly the US Ambassador to Turkey starting in 1968, and later the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy (a Department of Defense position) in the Carter administration.

Robert Komer was an American diplomat, government official, and writer. He served during the Vietnam War as President Lyndon Johnson’s special assistant in charge of the United States government’s controversial “pacification” program to disseminate propaganda in South Vietnam and identify Vietcong agents working in the country.