Douglas Eugene Pike[1] (July 27, 1924 – May 13, 2002)[2] was a leading American historian[3] 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.
[8] He founded the journal Indochina Chronology, and has authored numerous books and articles on the war and the National Liberation Front.
He grew up in Minor and had planned on a career in journalism, but with the outbreak of World War II, he joined the Army Signal Corps and served in the South Pacific.
[2] Pike founded The Indochina Chronology in 1982 to cover both historical and contemporary events in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos.