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A story the moral of which Americans will ignore—are ignoring—at their peril.
[Krepinevich] has focused on the U.S. Army, assessing its ability to meet the challenges posed by our military involvement in Vietnam from 1959 to 1975... From the Army perspective the account is certainly accurate, and devastating.
Book Details
List of Illustrations
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations and Acronyms
Part I: The Advisory Years, 1954–1965
Chapter 1. Brushfires on a Cold Dawn
Chapter 2. The Revolution That Failed
Chapter 3. Into the
List of Illustrations
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations and Acronyms
Part I: The Advisory Years, 1954–1965
Chapter 1. Brushfires on a Cold Dawn
Chapter 2. The Revolution That Failed
Chapter 3. Into the Quagmire
Chapter 4. Gearing Up For Counterinsurgency
Part II: Years of Intervention, 1965–1968
Chapter 5. Forty-four Battalions Across the Rubicon
Chapter 6. A Strategy of Tactics
Chapter 7. Counterinsurgency American-Style
Chapter 8. The "Other" War
Part III: Years of Withdrawal, 1968–1973
Chapter 9. Let: Defeat in Victory
Chapter 10. Paths Untaken, Paths Forsaken
Notes
Index