Abandoning Vietnam
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Abandoning Vietnam
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Author : James H. Willbanks
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
Abandoning Vietnam written by James H. Willbanks and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with History categories.
Drawing upon both archival research and his own military experiences in Vietnam, Willbanks focuses on military operations from 1969 through 1975. He begins by analyzing the events that led to a change in U.S. strategy in 1969 and the subsequent initiation of Vietnamization. He then critiques the implementation of that policy and the combat performance of the South Vietnamese army (ARVN), which finally collapsed in 1975.
Vietnam
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Author : John Prados
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Vietnam written by John Prados and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with History categories.
The first major synthesis of the war since 2001, drawing upon a host of newly declassified documents, presidential tapes, and overlooked foreign sources to give the most comprehensive look to date of the war that still haunts America.
The Cambodian Campaign
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Author : John M. Shaw
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
The Cambodian Campaign written by John M. Shaw and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with History categories.
When American and South Vietnamese forces, led by General Creighton Abrams, launched an attack into neutral Cambodia in 1970, the invasion ignited a firestorm of violent antiwar protests throughout the United States, dealing yet another blow to Nixon's troubled presidency. But, as John Shaw shows, the campaign also proved to be a major military success. Most histories of the Vietnam War either give the Cambodian invasion short shrift or merely criticize it for its political fallout, thus neglecting one of the campaign's key dimensions. Approaching the subject from a distinctly military perspective, Shaw shows how this carefully planned and executed offensive provided essential support for Nixon's "decent interval" and "peace with honor" strategies-by eliminating North Vietnamese sanctuaries and supply bases located less than a hundred miles from Saigon and by pushing Communist troops off the Vietnamese border. Despite the political cloud under which the operation was conducted, Shaw argues that it was not only the best of available choices but one of the most successful operations of the entire war, sustaining light casualties while protecting American troop withdrawal and buying time for Nixon's pacification and "Vietnamization" strategies. He also shows how the United States took full advantage of fortuitous events, such as the overthrow of Cambodia's Prince Sihanouk, the redeployment of North Vietnamese forces, and the late arrival of spring monsoons. Although critics of the operation have protested that the North Vietnamese never did attack out of Cambodia, Shaw makes a persuasive case that the near-border threat was very real and imminent. In the end, he contends, the campaign effectively precluded any major North Vietnamese military operations for over a year. Based on exhaustive research and a deep analysis of the invasion's objectives, planning, organization, and operations, Shaw's shrewd study encourages a newfound respect for one of America's genuine military successes during the war.
Leaving Vietnam
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Author : Minh Thanh Nguyen
language : en
Publisher: NeWest Press
Release Date : 1996
Leaving Vietnam written by Minh Thanh Nguyen and has been published by NeWest Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Leaving Vietnam is the compelling autobiography of Minh Thanh Nguyen, whose childhood and adolescence coincided with the Vietname War and the Communist takeover after the fall of Saigon. Nguyen grew up in a war zone where he and his friends threw unexploded shells on open fires, just for fun. They later joined gangs that waylaid drunken American soldiers leaving them with nothing on but their dogtags. Despite all this turmoil, life had its moments of seeming normalcy. As a teenager, Nguyen became a Shaolin Kung Fu kickboxer, learned to repair and race perfromance motorcycles, fell in love. But the war was never far. Nguyen and his friends wer drafted and some, like his friend Trung, died fro a war in which they wanted no part. Nguyen became oobsessed with the idea of escape. In 1980 he made a final, wrenching decision to leave his family and native country. Under rifle fire from border guards, Nguyen and thirteen other terrified Vietamese fled by night on a tiny fishing boat, risking death by capture, starvation, or drowning, in the hope of a better life across the sea. Leaving Vietnamis a brutally honest and engrossing account of a very human life. Reading this book, we come to believe in the necessity of purpose, love, and hope, even in the midst of war.
Arvn
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Author : Robert Kendall Brigham
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
Arvn written by Robert Kendall Brigham and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with History categories.
In this first in-depth history of the ARVN from 1955 to 1975, Robert Brigham takes readers into the barracks and training centers of the ARVN to plumb the hearts and souls of these forgotten soldiers. Through his command of Vietnamese-language sources--diaries, memoirs, letters, oral interviews, and more--he explores the lives of ordinary men, focusing on troop morale and motivation within the context of traditional Vietnamese society and a regime that made impossible demands upon its soldiers.
The Journal Of Military History
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008-10
The Journal Of Military History written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-10 with United States categories.
Out Of Bounds
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Author : Thomas A. Bruscino
language : en
Publisher: Department of the Army
Release Date : 2006
Out Of Bounds written by Thomas A. Bruscino and has been published by Department of the Army this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with History categories.
This authoritative official monograph uses two case studies to examine the role played by military sanctuaries as they relate to irregular warfare. In the first of two case studies, Out of Bounds looks at the United States' efforts to counter the advantages gained by the Viet Cong (and later the North Vietnamese Army) with sanctuaries in Cambodia, and Laos during the Vietnam War. It uses this example to point out the diplomatic, military, and economic challenges that develop when attempting to prevent the use of transnational sanctuaries by irregular forces. The second case study examines the Soviet incursion into Afghanistan in the 1980s, but this time from the perspective of the Mujahideen insurgency. This section of the book illustrates the advantages accrued by the Afghan resistance through the use of Pakistan as a sanctuary, the Soviet efforts to neutralize those advantages, and the Mujahideen's responses to overcome Soviet actions.
Airpower In Small Wars
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Author : James S. Corum
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Airpower In Small Wars written by James S. Corum and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with History categories.
The use of airpower in wartime calls to mind the massive bombings of World War II, but airplanes have long been instrumental in small wars as well. Ever since its use by the French to put down rebellious Moroccan tribes in 1913, airpower has been employed to fight in limited but often lengthy small conflicts around the globe. This is the first comprehensive history of airpower in small wars-conflicts pitting states against non-state groups such as insurgents, bandits, factions, and terrorists-tracing it from the early years of the twentieth century to the present day. It examines dozens of conflicts with strikingly different scenarios: the Greek Civil War, the Philippine Anti-Huk campaign, French and British colonial wars, the war in South Vietnam before the American escalation, counterinsurgency in southern Africa, Latin American counterguerrilla operations, and counterinsurgency and counterterrorist campaigns in the Middle East over the last four decades. For each war, the authors describe the strategies employed on both sides of the conflict, the air forces engaged, and the specific airpower tactics employed. They discuss the ground campaigns and provide the political background necessary to understand the air campaigns, and in each case they judge the utility of airpower in its broadest sense. In their historic sweep, they show how forms of airpower evolved from planes to police helicopters, aircraft of the civilian air reserve, and today's unmanned aircraft. They also disclose how small wars after World War II required new strategies, operational solutions, and tactics. By taking this broad view of small-war airpower, the authors are able to make assessments about the most effective and least effective means of employing airpower. They offer specific conclusions ranging from the importance of comprehensive strategy to the need for the United States and its allies to expand small-wars training programs. Airpower in Small Wars will be invaluable for educating military professionals and policy makers in the subject as well as for providing a useful framework for developing more effective doctrine for employing airpower in the conflicts we are most likely to see in the twenty-first century.
To Set The Record Straight
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Author : Scott Swett
language : en
Publisher: New American Media Publishing, LLC
Release Date : 2008
To Set The Record Straight written by Scott Swett and has been published by New American Media Publishing, LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
To Set the Record Straight is the inside story of how an ad hoc collection of veterans and political activists overcame their opponents' efforts to silence and marginalize them, and delivered the explosive truth about John Kerry's past to the public during the 2004 presidential campaign. It is a story of justice and vindication long delayed, of an insurgent assault on the old media by a new wave of online reporters, and of the long struggle of America's Vietnam veterans to make their way home.
Chronology Of Developments Relating To Vietnam
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Author : Library of Congress. Legislative Reference Service
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1968
Chronology Of Developments Relating To Vietnam written by Library of Congress. Legislative Reference Service and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1968 with Vietnam (Democratic Republic) categories.