After Action Report Ia Drang Valley Operation 1st Battalion 7th Cavalry 14 16 November 1965

Author : Anon.
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 31 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782893387

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After Action Report, Ia Drang Valley Operation, 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry 14-16 November 1965 by Anon. Pdf

“The Battle of Ia Drang was the first major battle between regulars of the United States Army and regulars of the People’s Army of Vietnam (PAVN / NVA) of North Vietnam during the Vietnam War. The two-part battle took place between November 14 and November 18, 1965, at two landing zones (LZs) northwest of Plei Me in the Central Highlands of South Vietnam (approximately 35 miles south-west of Pleiku) as part of the U.S. airmobile offensive codenamed Operation Silver Bayonet. The battle derives its name from the Drang River which runs through the valley northwest of Plei Me, in which the engagement took place. Ia means "river" in the local Montagnard language. Representing the American forces were elements of the 3rd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division: the 1st Battalion and 2nd Battalion of the 7th Cavalry Regiment, and the 2nd Battalion, 5th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army, facing elements of the B3 Front of the PAVN (including the 304 Division) and Viet Cong. The battle involved close air support by U.S. aircraft and a strategic bombing strike by the B-52s. The initial Vietnamese assault against the landing 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry at LZ X-Ray was repulsed after two days and nights of heavy fighting on November 14-16. However, the follow-up surprise attack on November 17 that overran the marching column of 7th Cavalry 2nd Battalion near the LZ Albany was the deadliest ambush of a U.S. unit during the course of the entire war. About half of some 300 American deaths in the 35-day Operation Silver Bayonet happened in just this one fight that lasted 16 hours.”-Wiki

Author : J. P. Harris
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780700622832

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Vietnam's High Ground by J. P. Harris Pdf

During its struggle for survival from 1954 to 1975, the region known as the Central Highlands was the strategically vital high ground for the South Vietnamese state. Successive South Vietnamese governments, their American allies, and their Communist enemies all realized early on the fundamental importance of this region. Paul Harris's new book, based on research in American archives and the use of Vietnamese Communist literature on a very large scale, examines the struggle for this region from the mid-1950s, tracing its evolution from subversion through insurgency and counterinsurgency to the bigger battles of 1965. The rugged mountains, high plateaus, and dense jungles of the Central Highlands seemed as forbidding to most Vietnamese as it did to most Americans. During 1954 to 1965, the great majority of its inhabitants were not ethnic Vietnamese. Ngo Dinh Diem’s regime initially supported an American counterinsurgency alliance with the Highlanders only to turn dramatically against it. As the war progressed, however, the Central Highlands became increasingly important. It was the area through which most branches of the Ho Chi Minh Trail passed. With its rugged, jungle-clad terrain, it also seemed to the North Vietnamese the best place to destroy the elite of South Vietnam's armed forces and to fight initial battles with the Americans. For many North Vietnamese, however, the Central Highlands became a living hell of starvation and disease. Even before the arrival of the American 1st Cavalry Division, the Communists were generally unable to win the decisive victories they sought in this region. Harris's study culminates with an account of the campaign in Pleiku province in October to November—a campaign that led to dramatic clashes between the Americans and the North Vietnamese in the Ia Drang valley. Harris's analysis overturns many of the accepted accounts about NVA, US, and ARVN performances.

Author : Boyd L. Dastrup
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Artillery, Field and mountain
ISBN : UCR:31210023604513

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King of Battle by Boyd L. Dastrup Pdf

Author : Robert H. Scales, Jr.
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1994-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0788112287

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Firepower in Limited War by Robert H. Scales, Jr. Pdf

Author : Sergio Miller
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472838506

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No Wider War by Sergio Miller Pdf

No Wider War is the second volume of a two-part exploration of America's involvement in Indochina from the end of World War II to the Fall of Saigon. Following on from the first volume, In Good Faith, which told the story from the Japanese surrender in 1945 through America's involvement in the French Indochina War and the initial advisory missions that followed, it traces the story of America's involvement in the Vietnam War from the first Marines landing at Da Nang in 1965, through the traumatic Tet Offensive of 1968 and the gradual Vietnamisation of the war that followed, to the withdrawal of American forces and the final loss of the South in 1975. Drawing on the latest research, unavailable to the authors of the classic Vietnam histories, including recently declassified top secret National Security Agency material, Sergio Miller examines in depth both the events and the key figures of the conflict to present a masterful narrative of America's most divisive war.

Author : LCDR David Schappert
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782899907

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Willpower: A Historical Study Of An Influential Leadership Attribute by LCDR David Schappert Pdf

This thesis investigates a single leadership attribute: willpower. Willpower is defined as the amalgamation of continuing in the face of adversity; the refusal to accept failure; and the power to affect a desired outcome in others. The central research question investigates how a leader generates willpower and transmits it to produce a desired effect. The methodology employed investigates three historical military leaders at the strategic, operational, and tactical levels of war over a sixty year period. The leaders analyzed are General Colin Powell, Admiral Chester Nimitz, and Lieutenant General Harold Moore. This analysis method was chosen to answer the three secondary research questions: Is there a common thread? Is willpower different at different levels of war? Has willpower transmission changed over time? To provide objectivity, a leader who possessed willpower and still failed, General Douglas MacArthur, is also studied. The historical leaders studied are found to have similarities in how they generate and transmit willpower. The willpower transmission techniques employed by the research subjects have not changed significantly over the period studied. However, willpower transmission techniques do reveal differences over the three levels of war.

Author : Cameron McWhirter,Zusha Elinson
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780374722005

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American Gun by Cameron McWhirter,Zusha Elinson Pdf

“A magisterial work of narrative history and original reportage . . . You can feel the tension building one cold, catastrophic fact at a time . . . A virtually unprecedented achievement.” —Mike Spies, The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice) A Washington Post top 50 nonfiction book of 2023 | Short-listed for the Zócalo Book Prize One of The New York Times’ 33 nonfiction books to read this fall | One of Esquire’s best books of fall | A Kirkus Reviews best nonfiction book of 2023 Named a most anticipated book of the fall by The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and Bloomberg American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15 presents the epic history of America’s most controversial weapon. In the 1950s, an obsessive firearms designer named Eugene Stoner invented the AR-15 rifle in a California garage. High-minded and patriotic, Stoner sought to devise a lightweight, easy-to-use weapon that could replace the M1s touted by soldiers in World War II. What he did create was a lethal handheld icon of the American century. In American Gun, the veteran Wall Street Journal reporters Cameron McWhirter and Zusha Elinson track the AR-15 from inception to ubiquity. How did the same gun represent the essence of freedom to millions of Americans and the essence of evil to millions more? To answer this question, McWhirter and Elinson follow Stoner—the American Kalashnikov—as he struggled mightily to win support for his invention, which under the name M16 would become standard equipment in Vietnam. Shunned by gun owners at first, the rifle’s popularity would take off thanks to a renegade band of small-time gun makers. And in the 2000s, it would become the weapon of choice for mass shooters, prompting widespread calls for proscription even as the gun industry embraced it as a financial savior. Writing with fairness and compassion, McWhirter and Elinson explore America’s gun culture, revealing the deep appeal of the AR-15, the awful havoc it wreaks, and the politics of reducing its toll. The result is a moral history of contemporary America’s love affair with technology, freedom, and weaponry. Includes 8 pages of black-and-white images.

Author : Thomas R. Mockaitis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9798216066101

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Conventional and Unconventional War by Thomas R. Mockaitis Pdf

This volume offers a comprehensive history of warfare since 1648, covering conventional and unconventional operations and demonstrating how most modern wars have been hybrid affairs that involved both. Military historian Thomas R. Mockaitis considers how epic struggles like the American Civil War, World Wars I and II, and the conflicts in the Middle East, among many others, shaped human history. The coverage serves to highlight four themes: the relationship between armed forces and the societies that create them, the impact of technology (not just armaments) on warfare, the role of ideas and attitudes toward violence in determining why and how wars are fought, and the relationship between conventional and unconventional operations. The book also covers the advent and evolution of unconventional warfare, including counterinsurgency, the War on Terror, and current conflicts in the Middle East. It concludes with consideration of the forms armed conflict will take in the future. The book includes valuable excerpts from the writings of military thinkers such as Clausewitz and Sun Tzu, an extensive bibliography of primary and secondary sources, and supporting maps and diagrams.

Author : Harry S. Laver,Jeffrey J. Matthews
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813174174

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The Art of Command by Harry S. Laver,Jeffrey J. Matthews Pdf

What essential leadership lessons do we learn by distilling the actions and ideas of great military commanders such as George Washington, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Colin Powell? The Art of Command demonstrates that great leaders become great through a commitment not only to develop vital skills but also to surmount personal shortcomings. In the second edition of this classic resource, Harry S. Laver, Jeffrey J. Matthews, and the other contributing authors identify eleven core characteristics of highly effective leaders, such as integrity, determination, vision, and charisma, and eleven significant figures in American military history who embody those qualities. Featuring new chapters on transitional leadership, innovative leadership, and authentic leadership, this insightful book offers valuable perspectives on the art of military command in American history.

Author : Christopher Kolenda
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-20
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780811770088

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Leadership by Christopher Kolenda Pdf

The late Lt. General Harold Moore (USA, Ret.) said it's the “absolute best book on military leadership in peace and war.” This book is for military leaders who want to inspire their teams to achieve their best in combat and peacetime. This wide-ranging anthology brings together noted military minds as they examine the crucial role of leadership in combat, relate the lessons learned, and apply the principles to the stressful world of business. The book covers classic and modern concepts of leadership and uses case studies from Alexander the Great through post-9/11 wars to illustrate the principles of leadership in concrete historical contexts. The most important, most penetrating analysis of military leadership to emerge in a generation, this seminal work features leaders of the armed forces as they learn from the past and present and look toward the future. This edition is fully updated with inclusive language and chapters that speak to leading in a diverse world and organized with summary points for each chapter for a quick overview of essentials.

Author : Milam
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2010-07-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781458782380

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Not a Gentleman's War by Milam Pdf

Wars are not fought by politicians and generals--they are fought by soldiers. Written by a combat veteran of the Vietnam War, Not a Gentleman's Waris about such soldiers--a gritty, against-the-grain defense of the much-maligned junior officer. Conventional wisdom holds that the junior officer in Vietnam was a no-talent, poorly trained, unmotivat...

Author : Gordon R. Sullivan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Government publications
ISBN : UCR:31210023606948

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The Collected Works of the Thirty-second Chief of Staff, United States Army by Gordon R. Sullivan Pdf

Author : Adrian R. Lewis
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9780415979764

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The American Culture of War by Adrian R. Lewis Pdf

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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Artillery
ISBN : UIUC:30112105071705

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Field Artillery by Anonim Pdf

A professional bulletin for redlegs.

Author : John A. Cash
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1993-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781568065632

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Seven Firefights in Vietnam by John A. Cash Pdf

Based on official army records, these eyewitness accounts of seven hellacious battles serve as a brief history of the Vietnam conflict. From a fierce fight on the banks of the Ia Drang River in 1965 to a 1968 gunship mission, this illustrated report conveys the heroism and horror of warfare.