Content : - The physical setting - Long An at peace, 1954-1955 - Preparations for war, 1956-1959 - War comes to Long An, 1960-1965 - Lessons from Long An : an analytic review - Ignoring the lessons : the American war in Long An - From war to what?
What went wrong in Vietnam? Applying the principles of war (based on the classic On War by Carl von Clausewitz) to the actual conduct of the fighting in Vietnam, the author provides some cogent answers to this question. It is not possible to do justice to the comprehensive nature of this author's arguments in a summary. However, among the points he raises are: the differences between the civili…
More than two decades after the end of the Vietnam War, America's wounds have yet to heal; the war's divisiveness continues. Yet today, even the most hard-line hawks and doves share the conviction that, for better or worse, the antiwar movement played an important role in turning American opinion against the war, thereby limiting and ultimately ending U.S. military activity in Southeast Asia. I…
Essentially a compendium of unknown facts, hidden details, and revealing statistics, Dirty Little Secrets of the Vietnam War allows us to see what really happened to American foes in Southeast Asia, separating popular myth from explosive reality in a clear concise manner. The book questions why the American military ignored lessons taught by previous encounters with insurgency forces; probes th…
This book is a story full of violence and numbing despair, but also one rich with lessons for American foreign policy, based on extensive research in U.S. Army archives and many personal interviews with those who experienced the Vietnam war in Hau Nghia, during the period of 1963–1973.
This book is a story full of violence and numbing despair, but also one rich with lessons for American foreign policy, based on extensive research in U.S. Army archives and many personal interviews with those who experienced the Vietnam war in Hau Nghia, during the period of 1963–1973.