Military Aspects Of The Vietnam Conflict

Author : Walter L. Hixson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0815335326

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Military Aspects of the Vietnam Conflict by Walter L. Hixson Pdf

The Vietnam War was, in the words of a preeminent scholar of the conflict (George C. Herring), "America's longest war." The Indochina conflict spanned the first generation of the larger Cold War and lasts to this day in American memory and cultural representation. Although the war remains a sensitive subject for many, a consensus exists that would echo the words of former Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara in his memoir, In Retrospect, "We were wrong, we were terribly wrong." The six volumes in this series pull together the best article literature on the History of American Involvement in Vietnam. The scholars writing in the first volume explore the roots of U.S. intervention, which followed in the wake of France's failed effort (supported and financed in Washington) to assert imperial control over Indochina. Volume II analyzed military aspects of the Vietnam War's history Volume V focuses on the lessons and legacies of the conflict, the source of a particularly sharp debate during the first administration of President Ronald W. Reagan. The final volume in the series analyzes the Vietnam War's extensive afterlife - in memory, film, literature, and popular discourse. Available individually by volume. Volume 1. The Origins of Intervention (0-8153-3531-8) Volume 2. Military Strategy and Escalation (0-8153-3532-6) Volume 3. Executive- Legislative Relations, Tracing the Impact of the War on U.S. Governmental Structures and Policies (0-8153-3533-4) Volume 4. The Diplomacy of War (0-8153-3534-2) Volume 5. The Anti-War Movement (0-8153-3535-0) Volume 6. Representation, Memories, and Legacies (0-8153-3536-9)

Author : Don Lawson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105081374279

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The United States in the Vietnam War by Don Lawson Pdf

Explains the political, social, economic, and military aspects of the Vietnam War, the longest in American history.

Author : Andrew Wiest,Chris McNab
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781502624697

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The Vietnam War by Andrew Wiest,Chris McNab Pdf

The Vietnam War chronicles the first war to be televised. The comprehensive description of battles, social and political issues, and revelations are all the more powerful because of first-hand accounts, telling photographs, and other primary sources. Students will learn the causes, outcomes, and repercussions of this polemic conflict through a historical lens and from the perspectives of soldiers, civilians, and others caught up in the Vietnam War.

Author : Jeff Hay
Publisher : Greenhaven Publishing LLC
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-24
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780737746372

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The Vietnam War by Jeff Hay Pdf

This volume examines America's most controversial war by placing it within the context of over thirty years of warfare in Southeast Asia. The comprehensive list of entries includes discussion of political developments, descriptions of important leaders such as Lyndon B. Johnson and Ho Chi Minh, consideration of the antiwar movement, and the military aspects of the conflict.

Author : Walter L. Hixson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0415886260

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The Vietnam War by Walter L. Hixson Pdf

This six-volume collection of essential articles on the American involvement in the Vietnam War encompasses the political, social, and military aspects of the war. Available individually by volume. Volume 1. The Origins of Intervention (0-8153-3531-8) Volume 2. Military Strategy and Escalation (0-8153-3532-6) Volume 3. Executive- Legislative Relations, Tracing the Impact of the War on U.S. Governmental Structures and Policies (0-8153-3533-4) Volume 4. The Diplomacy of War (0-8153-3534-2) Volume 5. The Anti-War Movement (0-8153-3535-0) Volume 6. Representation, Memories, and Legacies (0-8153-3536-9)

Author : Harry G. Summers
Publisher : Presidio Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2009-02-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307558763

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On Strategy by Harry G. Summers Pdf

Stunning in its insight, On Strategy is required reading not just for everyone who is interested in the Vietnam War, but for anyone who is concerned about the place of the United States on the world stage and how America can, and more importantly cannot, employ its immense military force to help bring peace to an increasingly troubled world. “On Stategy is just about the best thing I have read on Vietnam.”—Drew Middleton, The New York Times “Perhaps the most trenchant single postmortem to date of our defeat in Vietnam . . . a classic . . . compact, subtle—and surprisingly readable.”—Newsweek “At our house, we sleep less easily now that Harry G. Summers Jr., Colonel of Infantry, is no longer defending us. After two wars and 38 years of active duty, Summers has retired from the Army. . . . Every taxpayer should mourn his loss. Colonel Summers is perhaps the most influential thinker of our time: his book On Strategy is required reading at the Army and Naval War Colleges.”—Jack Beatty, Boston Globe “This investigation of the U.S. army’s role in the Vietnam War is widely recognized as the single most useful postmortem on the unpopular war.”—The Washington Post Book World “The most detailed exposition of this view—that the U.S. threw away whatever chance for victory it may have had through blunders that must not be repeated—comes from Col. Harry Summers, whose book, On Strategy, has become must reading for young officers.”—Time “A masterful analysis of the strategy, or lack thereof, in the Vietnam War . . . The best critique of the war I have read and a book every policy maker in Washington should absorb.”—Max Cleland, Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Author : Dale Walton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136339806

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The Myth of Inevitable US Defeat in Vietnam by Dale Walton Pdf

This book offers a dispassionate strategic examination of the Vietnam conflict that challenges the conventional wisdom that South Vietnam could not survive as an independent non-communist entity over the long term regardless of how the United States conducted its military- political effort in Indochina.

Author : General Bruce PalmerJr.
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813146416

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The 25-Year War by General Bruce PalmerJr. Pdf

On April 30, 1975, Saigon and the government of South Vietnam fell to the communist regime of North Vietnam, ending—for American military forces—exactly twenty-five year of courageous but unavailing struggle. This is not the story of how America became embroiled in a conflict in a small country half-way around the globe, nor of why our armed forces remained there so long after the futility of our efforts became obvious to many. It is the story of what went wrong there militarily, and why. The author is a professional soldier who experienced the Vietnam war in the field and in the highest command echelons. General Palmer's insights into the key events and decisions that shaped American's military role in Vietnam are uncommonly perceptive. America's most serious error, he believes, was committing its armed forces to a war in which neither political nor military goals were ever fully articulated by our civilian leaders. Our armed forces, lacking clear objectives, failed to develop an appropriate strategy, instead relinquishing the offensive to Hanoi. Yet an achievable strategy could have been devised, Palmer believes. Moreover, our South Vietnamese allies could have been bolstered by appropriate aid but were instead overwhelmed by the massive American military presence. Compounding these errors were the flawed civilian and military chains of command. The result was defeat for America and disaster for South Vietnam. General Palmer presents here an insider's history of the war and an astute critique of America's military strengths and successes as well as its weaknesses and failures.

Author : Center of Center of Military History United States Army,Center of Military History United States,. Richard Stewart
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1505475163

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Deepening Involvement 1945-1965 by Center of Center of Military History United States Army,Center of Military History United States,. Richard Stewart Pdf

To many Americans, the war in Vietnam was, and remains, a divisive conflict. Now almost fifty years after the beginning of major U.S. combat operations in Vietnam, the war has faded from much of America's consciousness. Over half of the U.S. population was born after the war and has no direct memory of the conflict, yet this does not lessen its importance. The massive American commitment-political, military, and diplomatic-to the independence of South Vietnam beginning in the 1950s and continuing with U.S. direct combat operations in the 1960s and early 1970s makes it important to remember those who served. U.S. involvement in this corner of Southeast Asia began after World War II when Vietnam was fighting for independence from France. Although generally favoring Vietnamese independence, the United States supported France because the rebels-or Viet Minh-were led by Communists and in the days of the Cold War U.S. officials considered any and all Communists to be little more than the puppets of Moscow and Beijing. France's defeat in 1954, the bifurcation of Vietnam into a Communist North and non-Communist South, and America's assumption of the job of training the armed forces of the newly created non-Communist Republic of Vietnam pulled the United States deeper into the conflict. Framed primarily as a fight to defend democracy against the forces of international communism, the United States gradu-ally committed more troops and materiel to fight Communist-led Southern guerrillas (or Viet Cong) and the regular military forces sent to South Vietnam by the politburo in Hanoi. By the time President Lyndon B. Johnson committed major combat units in 1965, the United States had already invested thousands of men and millions of dollars in the fight to build a secure and stable South Vietnam. That commitment expanded rapidly until by 1969 the United States had over 365,000 soldiers in every military region of South Vietnam with thousands of other servicemen and women throughout the Pacific area in direct support of operations. The war saw many technological innovations including the massive use of helicopters, wide-scale use of computers, sophisticated psychological operations, new concepts of counterinsurgency, and major advances in military medicine. Yet, as in most wars, much of the burden of battle was still borne by the foot soldiers on the ground who slogged over the hills and through the rice paddies in search of an often elusive foe. The enormous military and political effort by the United States was, however, continuously matched by the determination of North Vietnamese leaders to unify their country under communism at whatever cost. That determination, in the end, proved decisive. Negotiations accompanied by the gradual withdrawal of American forces led to the Paris Peace Accords in January 1973, effectively ending the U.S. military role. The continued existence of an independent South Vietnam, however, was of short duration. Two years after the American exit the North Vietnamese Army overran South Vietnam and sealed its victory in April 1975. The vast majority of American men and women who served in Vietnam did so in the uniform of the United States Army. They served their country when called, many at great personal cost, against a backdrop of growing uncertainty and unrest at home. These commemorative pamphlets are dedicated to them.

Author : Jayne Werner,Luu Doan Huynh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317454007

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The Vietnam War: Vietnamese and American Perspectives by Jayne Werner,Luu Doan Huynh Pdf

This volume derives from an unprecedented seminar held at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs in November 1990. At the seminar, leading Western diplomatic and military historians and Vietnam scholars met with prominent Vietnamese Communists to reflect on the Vietnam War. The book contains four parts: The Vietnamese Revolution and Political/Military strategy; the war from the American side; the war in the South and Cambodia; and retrospective and postwar issues. In addition to Jane Werner and Luu Doan Huynh, the contributors are Mark Bradley, William Duiker, David Elliott, Christine White, George Vickers, James Harrison, George Herring, Ronald Spector, Paul Joseph, Jeffrey Clarke, Ngo Vinh Long, Benedict Kiernan, Marilyn Young, Keith Taylor, and Tran Van Tra. General Tra was Commander of the People's Liberation Armed Forces of South Vietnam from 1963 to 1975. His eye-opening analysis of the Tet Offensive has never before been available in English.

Author : Bernard C. Nalty
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : United States
ISBN : 0760716978

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The Vietnam War by Bernard C. Nalty Pdf

Author : William M. Hammond
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Armed Forces and mass media
ISBN : 0160016738

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Public Affairs by William M. Hammond Pdf

United States Army in Vietnam. CMH Pub. 91-13. Draws upon previously unavailable Army and Defense Department records to interpret the part the press played during the Vietnam War. Discusses the roles of the following in the creation of information policy: Military Assistance Command's Office of Information in Saigon; White House; State Department; Defense Department; and the United States Embassy in Saigon.

Author : Gerard J. De Groot
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015053385699

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A Noble Cause? by Gerard J. De Groot Pdf

"The military events, the political and strategic contexts, and the social and cultural impact of the Vietnam War are all brought together into this single compelling and readable volume. As well as breadth and incisiveness, it has new things to say on the nature of the communist revolution and the way of war; the flaws in US strategy and tactics, and how these affected the soldier on the ground; and the legacy of the war for Vietnam and America alike."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Michael Lind
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2002-07-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780684870274

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Vietnam: The Necessary War by Michael Lind Pdf

Offering a controversial perspective on America's most painful war, the author proposes that Vietnam should have been fought, but with different tactics.

Author : Hallie Murray
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-15
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781978514270

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The Role of Women in the Vietnam War by Hallie Murray Pdf

The Vietnam War was one of the most controversial wars in American history, as many Americans opposed the United States' involvement in the war. The draft, which forced certain young men to fight in the war, even if they didn't want to, was particularly controversial. At the time, women were not allowed to fight in the military, but many worked directly in the conflict as nurses and administrators. Through fascinating and poignant interviews, this book tells the stories of six courageous women who served in the Vietnam War as they narrate their fascinating and sometimes difficult memories of the conflict.