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Vietnam August 24, 2004 Peter Kross |
The Assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem Did the bloody downfall of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem in 1963 put the United States on a slippery slope into a quagmire? |
Vietnam Stephen B. Young |
LBJ's Disengagement Strategy Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker's charge from President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1967 was to de-escalate the Vietnam conflict without losing the war. He did just that. |
Vietnam April 2007 Peter Kross |
John Paul Vann: Man and Legend The outspoken American adviser was a 'hair shirt' for the American command in Vietnam, but he was worth the trouble. |
Vietnam August 24, 2004 Colonel William Wilson |
Perspectives: Impossible to Stay Uninvolved U.S. complicity in the overthrow of South Vietnam's president made it impossible to stay uninvolved in the war. |
Vietnam June 28, 2004 James Donovan |
Combined Action Program: Marines' Alternative to Search and Destroy The U.S. Marine Corps CAP just might have been a viable alternative to MACV's 'big battalions' strategy in Vietnam. |
Military History Colonel Harry G. Summers, Jr. |
Korean War: A Fresh Perspective More than forty-five years after shipping out to fight in Korea, the author gains new insight into what the war had been all about. |
Vietnam John M. Carland |
Interview with NVA General Tran Van Tra The field commander of military operations in the South, Tran Van Tra was North Vietnam's counterpart to General William Westmoreland. |
Vietnam December 2007 James H. Willbanks |
"The Most Brilliant Commander": Ngo Quang Truong General Norman Schwarzkopf was among those who had utmost respect for South Vietnamese General Ngo Quang Truong. |
Vietnam December 2006 Mark DePu |
Vietnam War: The Individual Rotation Policy The individual rotation policy was, in hindsight, clearly one of the worst ideas of the war. At the time, however, military planners had few options. |
Parameters Winter 2005/2006 Jeffrey Record |
Why the Strong Lose Why has the United States fared consistently well against such powerful enemies as Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan and the Soviet Union, but its record against lesser foes is decidedly mixed? |
Vietnam February 8, 2005 Peter Brush |
The Buddhist Crisis in Vietnam In 1966, resistance to the Saigon government almost sparked a South Vietnamese civil war. |
Military History Quarterly August 4, 2004 Edward J. Drea |
Gulf of Tonkin: 'Received Information Indicating Attack' Forty years after North Vietnamese patrol boats reportedly attacked U.S. destroyers, the sequence of events surrounding the Gulf of Tonkin incident is finally coming into clearer focus. |
Vietnam February 2007 James I. Marino |
Attack on Quang Tri City During the Vietnam War Like Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge, Quang Tri City was a vital communications crossroads that the enemy had to take in January of 1968. |
Parameters Summer 2006 Robert M. Cassidy |
The Long Small War: Indigenous Forces for Counterinsurgency A task force that organizes and integrates special, conventional, and indigenous forces against terrorists, leveraging the best counterinsurgency practices, would be able to carry out the full range of counterinsurgency requirements within an autonomous area of operations. |
Vietnam David T. Zabecki |
Battle for Saigon In the Tet Offensive of 1968, the Viet Cong prepared carefully for its objectives inside the "Saigon Circle." The result would be a plethora of battles -- and battles within battles. |
Vietnam October 2006 |
Letter Tet in Bien Hoa and Long Binh... An Hoa Combat Base, Revisited... M-24 Chaffee Light Tank... etc. |
Vietnam Don North |
VC Assault on the U.S. Embassy An American reporter witnessed the attack on the U.S. Embassy in Saigon during the Tet Offensive -- and experienced firsthand the strain between the press and the military. |
Vietnam August 2007 Mark Bernstein |
Vietnam War: Operation Dewey Canyon One of the most successful offensives of the Vietnam War was also one of its most controversial. |
Parameters Summer 2007 |
Book Reviews Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954-1965 by Mark Moyar offers fresh insights on the war... Ivan's War: Life and Death in the Red Army, 1939-1945 by Catherine Merridale is social history at it's best... etc. |
Parameters Winter 2003/2004 |
Book Reviews Reconstructing Eden: A Comprehensive Plan for the Post-War Political and Economic Development of Iraq... The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad... Defense's Nuclear Agency, 1947-1997... Diem's Final Failure: Prelude to America's War in Vietnam... etc. |
Vietnam Richard W. Hale |
A CIA Officer in Saigon The CIA struggled to keep its operation in Vietnam going until the very fall of Saigon. |
Vietnam John C. McManus |
Battleground Saigon During the Tet Offensive in 1968, the 7th Infantry Regiment fought a World War II-style urban battle in the South Vietnamese capital. |
Parameters Autumn 2006 Jeffrey Record |
External Assistance: Enabler of Insurgent Success For either the insurgent side or the counterinsurgent side, material strength unguided by sound strategy and unsupported by sufficient willingness to fight and die is a recipe for almost certain defeat. But most insurgencies seek foreign help for good reason. |
Vietnam Paddy Griffith |
Re-evaluating the Role of the 'Dustoff' While it improved the survival rate and confidence level of troops in Vietnam, medevac often distorted the tactical shape of battles. |
Parameters Spring 2006 |
Book Reviews Soldiering: Observations from Korea, Vietnam, and Safe Places. By Henry G. Gole... New Glory: Expanding America's Global Supremacy. By Ralph Peters... Sands of Empire: Missionary Zeal, American Foreign Policy, and the Hazards of Global Ambition. By Robert W. Merry... etc. |
Vietnam Michael J. Walsh |
Men with Green Faces In Vietnam's Mekong Delta, Navy SEALs were the military's 'eyes and ears,' providing vital intelligence on enemy operations. |
Vietnam Peter Brush |
What Really Happened at Cam Ne? Although described as one of the top works of 20th-century journalism, the CBS report presented only one side of the story. |
National Defense January 2007 Sandra I. Erwin |
While Still at War, Services Brood Over `What's Next?' The business of planning for the future indeed can be scary, especially when it comes to predicting when and where the nation will fight the next war. |
Parameters Summer 2004 Robert M. Cassidy |
Back to the Street without Joy: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Vietnam and Other Small Wars This article aims to distill some of the more relevant counterinsurgency lessons from the American military's experiences during Vietnam and before. |
National Defense May 2014 Dan Parsons |
Special Operations a Valuable Tool In Dealing With Bloody African Conflicts Deploying small numbers of specially trained troops, namely Army Special Operations Forces that are well versed in supporting indigenous troops, can pay dividends, said Michael D. Lumpkin, assistant secretary of defense. |
Wired November 27, 2007 Noah Shachtman |
How Technology Almost Lost the War: In Iraq, the Critical Networks Are Social -- Not Electronic A network-centric approach to war allows us to swiftly locate our target and destroy it, but it doesn't allow us to connect with local people to rebuild a city. |
Vietnam August 24, 2004 Al Hemingway |
Harvey Barnum: Medal of Honor Recipient In-country for just two weeks, artillery forward observer Harvey Barnum assumed command of Hotel Company, 2nd Battalion, 9th Marines, during a Viet Cong ambush. Here, he talks about his experiences during two Vietnam tours. |
Vietnam John B. Hasema |
Never Forgotten: Accounting for American MIAs Joint Task Force--Full Accounting continues the effort to recover the remains of the 1,991 Americans still missing in Southeast Asia. |
National Defense July 2006 Sandra I. Erwin |
Defense Stifles Innovation Despite Urgent War Needs The Defense Department has been a leading developer of cutting-edge technology. But at the same time, it has created self-defeating mechanisms that quash innovation and fail to capitalize on available opportunities. |
National Defense May 2009 Sandra I. Erwin |
Gates Reshapes the Budget, Can He Change the Culture? Defense Secretary Robert Gates' reshuffle of the Pentagon's $1.7 trillion weapons portfolio contained no major surprises. |
Parameters Autumn 2004 Michael O'Hanlon |
The Need to Increase the Size of the Deployable Army The possibility exists that large numbers of active-duty troops and reservists may soon leave the service rather than subjecting themselves to a life continually on the road. The seriousness of the worry cannot be easily established. |
TIME Asia November 14, 2011 Geoffrey Cain |
Good Intentions In his 1955 classic The Quiet American, Graham Greene adroitly foresaw the tragic and absurd quality that came to characterize U.S. intervention in Vietnam. |
Vietnam June 2007 Richard C. Barrett |
Bud Day: Vietnam War POW Hero The only American POW to escape North Vietnam missed being rescued by minutes, costing him more than five years in brutal captivity. |
National Defense April 2013 Nathaniel H. Sledge Jr. |
10 Reasons to Reform U.S. National Security Policy The U.S. security enterprise must be reformed to bring foreign policy in line with national values, and to enable improved fiscal health at the federal level. |
Military History Quarterly Summer 2004 John M. Taylor |
World War II: 101st Airborne Division Participate in Operation Overlord In their baptism of fire, the green paratroopers of General Maxwell Taylor's 101st Airborne Division performed like seasoned veterans in Operation Overlord. |
Vietnam Marc Phillip Yablonka |
Doctors in a War Zone: The Ultimate Training Ground Western doctors who served in Vietnam, whether military or civilian, returned with a deeply altered perspective of their own professions. |
Vietnam June 2006 James M. Haley |
1861 French Conquest of Saigon: Battle of the Ky Hoa Forts In an 1861 battle with the French, the Vietnamese showed some of the fighting tenacity they would later display in places like Dien Bien Phu and Hue during the 20th century. |
Salon.com October 17, 2002 |
"I'm not sure which planet they live on" Hawks in the Bush administration may be making deadly miscalculations on Iraq, says Gen. Anthony Zinni, Bush's Middle East envoy. |
National Defense February 2004 Harold Kennedy |
From Buck Private to Chief of SOCOM Gen. Bryan "Doug" Brown -- who became head of the U.S. Special Operations Command in September -- joined the Army as a private in 1967. |
Vietnam |
Letters From Readers - December 2007 - Vietnam More about Donald Koelper... That one-year tour of duty... Operation Dewey Canyon... etc. |
ONLINE Jul/Aug 2004 Lam & Friesen |
A Web-Based Database of CIA Declassified Documents on the Vietnam War During the Vietnam War years, the U.S. government generated a large volume of classified documents. The Declassified CIA Documents on the Vietnam War database is the result of a sabbatical leave research project approved and supported by the University of Saskatchewan, Canada. |
Salon.com May 16, 2002 Suzy Hansen |
A little bit at war Wall Street Journal's Max Boot says that, contrary to the Powell doctrine, America can and should fight small wars, build nations and do without an exit strategy... |
National Defense June 2007 Grace Jean |
Combat Veterans Catalog Equipment Shortfalls Many requested improvements in communications devices, batteries and weapons that, in many cases, are failing in the fight. |
AskMen.com November 12, 2003 Matthew Simpson |
Top 10: Memorable 20th Century Speeches Find out about some of the most famous 20th-century speeches that are still remembered and studied today. |
Vietnam April 2007 |
Letters from Readers Rear Echelon Serviceman... Counting the Days... A War Reporter Returns to Vietnam... etc. |