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USAF Logistic Plans and Policies in Southeast Asia, 1966 (Paperback): U.S. Air Force, Office of Air Force History USAF Logistic Plans and Policies in Southeast Asia, 1966 (Paperback)
U.S. Air Force, Office of Air Force History
R361 Discovery Miles 3 610 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Blood in the Water - A Combat Memoir of an Air Force Marine in Vietnam (Paperback): Larry Stoddard! Blood in the Water - A Combat Memoir of an Air Force Marine in Vietnam (Paperback)
Larry Stoddard!
R630 Discovery Miles 6 300 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Vietnam Nurse - Mending & Remembering (Paperback): Lou Eisenbrandt Vietnam Nurse - Mending & Remembering (Paperback)
Lou Eisenbrandt
R559 Discovery Miles 5 590 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
U.S. Marine Corps Civil Affairs in I Corps Republic of South Vietnam, April 1966 to April 1967 (Paperback): Usmcr Captain... U.S. Marine Corps Civil Affairs in I Corps Republic of South Vietnam, April 1966 to April 1967 (Paperback)
Usmcr Captain William D. Parker
R495 Discovery Miles 4 950 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Every Marine who has served in Vietnam has been heavily involved in efforts to improve the situation of the Vietnamese people. The civil affairs actions of the III Marine Amphibious Force have been every bit as important as the combat actions. In this reference pamphlet, which follows an earlier history of the first year of Marine Corps civic action in Vietnam, the story of the second year of civilian aid policies, programs, and activities is related. The use of civic action by the Marine Corps to accomplish its assigned mission is nothing new. Examples of how the Marines have employed civic action in the past can be found by reading accounts of their exploits during the 1920s in Haiti, Nicaragua, and the Dominican Republic. From these accomplishments and astute observations made by men such as Major Earl H. Ellis and others, accounts of "lessons learned" about civic action can be found recorded in the Small Wars Manual of 1940, which points out: "The motive in small wars is not material destruction. It is usually a project dealing with the social, economic, and political development of the people. It is of primary importance that the fullest benefit be derived from the psychological aspects of the situation. That implies a serious study of the people, their racial, political, religious, and mental development. By analysis and study the reasons for existing emergency may be deduced; the most practical method of solving the problem is to understand the possible approaches thereto and the repercussion to be expected from any action which may be contemplated. By this study and the ability to apply correct psychological doctrine, many pitfalls may be avoided and the success of the undertaking assured." With the basic concept of small wars in mind, the Manual of 1940 goes on to point out: "The purpose should always be to restore normal government or give the people a better government than they had before, and to estabJ.sh peace, order, and security on as permanent a basis as practicable. In so doing one should endeavor to make self-sufficient native agencies responsible for these matters. With all this accomplished, one should be able to leave the country with the lasting friendship and respect of the native population." The concept of civic action may be simply stated, but the organization and application of carrying out an effective program becomes a difficult matter. This difficulty in application can be seen through the scope and magnitude of the U. S. Marine Corps civic action effort in the I Corps area of South Vietnam. There the Marine Corps came face-to-face with the age old problem of guerrilla warfare; winning the confidence of the population which is vital in defeating the insurgent. It was in the field of winning the confidence of a large civilian population, while at the same time fighting a war, that the Marine Corps was least prepared when its troops landed in South Vietnam.

Field Artillery 1954-1973 (Paperback): Department of the Army Field Artillery 1954-1973 (Paperback)
Department of the Army
R478 Discovery Miles 4 780 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The United States Air Force in South East Asia - The Advisory Years to 1965 (Paperback): Martin Blumenson, Robert F Futrell The United States Air Force in South East Asia - The Advisory Years to 1965 (Paperback)
Martin Blumenson, Robert F Futrell
R762 Discovery Miles 7 620 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This publication tells the story of the United States Ari Force's involvement in the region form the end of the second World War until the major infusion of American troops into Vietnam in1965. During these years, and most noticeably after 1961, the Air Force's principal role in Southeast Asia was to advise the Vietnamese Air Force in its struggle against insurgents seeking the collapse of the Saigon government. This story includes some issues of universal applicability to the Air Force: the role of air power in an insurgency, the most effective way to advise a foreign ally, and how to coordinate with other American agencies (both military and civilian) which are doing the same thing. It also deals with issue unique to the Vietnamese conflict: how to coordinate a centralized, technological modern air force with a feudal, decentralized, indigenous one without overwhelming it, and how best to adapt fighter, reconnaissance, airlift, and liaison planes to a jungle environment.

The My Lai Massacre - The History of the Vietnam War's Most Notorious Atrocity (Paperback): Charles River Editors The My Lai Massacre - The History of the Vietnam War's Most Notorious Atrocity (Paperback)
Charles River Editors
R271 Discovery Miles 2 710 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Gradual Failure - The Air War Over North Vietnam 1965-1966 (Paperback): United States Air Force, Jacob Van Staaveren Gradual Failure - The Air War Over North Vietnam 1965-1966 (Paperback)
United States Air Force, Jacob Van Staaveren
R718 Discovery Miles 7 180 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The U.S. Air Force reached its nadir during the opening two years of the Rolling Thunder air campaign in North Vietnam. Never had the Air Force operated with so many restraints and to so little effect. These pages are painful but necessary reading for all who care about the nation's military power. Van Staaveren wrote this book near the end of his distinguished government service. He was an Air Force historian in Korea during the Korean War and he began to write about the Vietnam War while it was still being fought.

Air Power and the 1972 Spring Invasion - USAF South East Asia Mongraph Series, Volume II, Monograph 3 (Paperback): A. J. C.... Air Power and the 1972 Spring Invasion - USAF South East Asia Mongraph Series, Volume II, Monograph 3 (Paperback)
A. J. C. Lavalle
R525 Discovery Miles 5 250 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Air Force presents this volume, a truly monumental effort at recounting the myriad of widely separate but not unrelated events and operations that took place during the spring invasion of Vietnam in 1972. The authors present an illuminating story of people and machines that fought so gallantly during this major enemy offensive.

The Viet Arcane (Paperback): Jack Hirschman The Viet Arcane (Paperback)
Jack Hirschman
R418 R383 Discovery Miles 3 830 Save R35 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Interdiction in Southern Laos 1960-1968 (Paperback): Center for Air Force History, Jacob Van Staaveren Interdiction in Southern Laos 1960-1968 (Paperback)
Center for Air Force History, Jacob Van Staaveren
R799 Discovery Miles 7 990 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Throughout the War in Southeast Asia, Communist forces form North Vietnam infiltrated the isolated, neutral state of Laos. Men and supplies crossed the mountain passes and travelled along an intricate web of roads and jungle paths known as the Ho Chi Minh Trail to the Viet Cong insurgents in South Vietnam. American involvement in Laos began which a photo-reconnaissance missions and, as the war in Vietnam intensified, expanded to a series of air-ground operations from bases in Vietnam and Thailand against fixed targets and infiltration routes in southern Laos. This volume examines this complex operational environment. United States Air Force. Center for Air Force History.

Catching Shrimp with Bare Hands - A Boy from the Mekong Delta (Paperback): Michelle Robin La Catching Shrimp with Bare Hands - A Boy from the Mekong Delta (Paperback)
Michelle Robin La
R663 Discovery Miles 6 630 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Defiant (Paperback): Alvin Townley Defiant (Paperback)
Alvin Townley
R578 R532 Discovery Miles 5 320 Save R46 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

During the Vietnam War, hundreds of American POWs faced years of brutal conditions and horrific torture at the hands of communist interrogators who ruthlessly plied them for military intelligence and propaganda. Determined to maintain their Code of Conduct, the prisoners developed a powerful underground resistance. To quash it, the North Vietnamese singled out its eleven leaders, Vietnam's own "dirty dozen," and banished them to an isolated jail that would become known as Alcatraz. None would leave its solitary cells and interrogation rooms unscathed; one would never return. As these men suffered in Hanoi, their wives launched an extraordinary campaign that would ultimately spark the POW/MIA movement. When the survivors finally returned, one would receive the Medal of Honor, another became a U.S. Senator, and a third still serves in Congress. A story of survival and triumph in the vein of Unbroken and Band of Brothers, Defiant will inspire anyone wondering how courage, faith, and brotherhood can endure even in the darkest of situations.

Navy Medicine in Vietnam (Black and White) (Paperback): Jan K Herman, Department of the Navy Navy Medicine in Vietnam (Black and White) (Paperback)
Jan K Herman, Department of the Navy
R406 Discovery Miles 4 060 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Toxic War - The Story of Agent Orange (Hardcover): Peter Sills Toxic War - The Story of Agent Orange (Hardcover)
Peter Sills
R2,425 Discovery Miles 24 250 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The war in Vietnam, spanning more than twenty years, was one of the most divisive conflicts ever to envelop the United States, and its complexity and consequences did not end with the fall of Saigon in 1975. As Peter Sills demonstrates in "Toxic War," veterans faced a new enemy beyond post-traumatic stress disorder or debilitating battle injuries. Many of them faced a new, more pernicious, slow-killing enemy: the cancerous effects of Agent Orange.


Originally introduced by Dow and other chemical companies as a herbicide in the United States and adopted by the military as a method of deforesting the war zone of Vietnam, in order to deny the enemy cover, Agent Orange also found its way into the systems of numerous active-duty soldiers. Sills argues that manufacturers understood the dangers of this compound and did nothing to protect American soldiers.


"Toxic War" takes the reader behind the scenes into the halls of political power and industry, where the debates about the use of Agent Orange and its potential side effects raged. In the end, the only way these veterans could seek justice was in the court of law and public opinion. Unprecedented in its access to legal, medical, and government documentation, as well as to the personal testimonies of veterans, "Toxic War" endeavors to explore all sides of this epic battle.

The Third Herd - My Viet Nam Experience (Paperback): Philip B Wavrek The Third Herd - My Viet Nam Experience (Paperback)
Philip B Wavrek
R544 Discovery Miles 5 440 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Vietnam War - Topics in Contemporary North American Literature (Paperback, annotated edition): Brenda M Boyle The Vietnam War - Topics in Contemporary North American Literature (Paperback, annotated edition)
Brenda M Boyle
R973 Discovery Miles 9 730 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Reverberations of the Vietnam War can still be felt in American culture. The post-9/11 United States forays into the Middle East, the invasion and occupation of Iraq especially, have evoked comparisons to the nearly two decades of American presence in Viet Nam (1954-1973). That evocation has renewed interest in the Vietnam War, resulting in the re-printing of older War narratives and the publication of new ones. This volume tracks those echoes as they appear in American, Vietnamese American, and Vietnamese war literature, much of which has joined the American literary canon. Using a wide range of theoretical approaches, these essays analyze works by Michael Herr, Bao Ninh, Duong Thu Huong, Bobbie Ann Mason, le thi diem thuy, Tim O'Brien, Larry Heinemann, and newcomers Denis Johnson, Karl Marlantes, and Tatjana Solis. Including an historical timeline of the conflict and annotated guides to further reading, this is an essential guide for students and readers of contemporary American fiction

Invasion of Laos, 1971 - Lam Son 719 (Paperback): Robert D. Sander Invasion of Laos, 1971 - Lam Son 719 (Paperback)
Robert D. Sander
R570 R530 Discovery Miles 5 300 Save R40 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In 1971, while U.S. ground forces were prohibited from crossing the Laotian border, a South Vietnamese Army corps, with U.S. air support, launched the largest airmobile operation in the history of warfare, Lam Son 719. The objective: to sever the North Vietnamese Army's main logistical artery, the Ho Chi Minh Trail, at its hub, Tchepone in Laos, an operation that, according to General Creighton Abrams, could have been the decisive battle of the war, hastening the withdrawal of U.S. forces and ensuring the survival of South Vietnam. The outcome: defeat of the South Vietnamese Army and heavy losses of U.S. helicopters and aircrews, but a successful preemptive strike that met President Nixon's near-term political objectives. Author Robert Sander, a helicopter pilot in Lam Son 719, explores why an operation of such importance failed. Drawing on archives and interviews, and firsthand testimony and reports, Sander chronicles not only the planning and execution of the operation but also the maneuvers of the bastions of political and military power during the ten-year effort to end Communist infiltration of South Vietnam leading up to Lam Son 719. The result is a picture from disparate perspectives: the Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon administrations; the South Vietnamese government led by President Nguyen Van Thieu; and senior U.S. military commanders and army aviators. Sander's conclusion is at once powerful and persuasively clear. Lam Son 719 was doomed in both the planning and execution - a casualty of domestic and international politics, flawed assumptions, incompetent execution, and the resolve of the North Vietnamese Army. A powerful work of military and political history, this book offers eloquent testimony that ""failure, like success, cannot be measured in absolute terms.

Operation Rolling Thunder - Political Decision-making that Committed the United States to the Vietnam War (Paperback): US Naval... Operation Rolling Thunder - Political Decision-making that Committed the United States to the Vietnam War (Paperback)
US Naval Academy
R400 Discovery Miles 4 000 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The assassination of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem on November 1, 1963, left a leadership void in Saigon that was never filled. Heads of state went through Saigon like a revolving door, yet none of them were able to successfully lead and govern the people of South Vietnam. On the other side of the globe, President of the United States John F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963. While the U.S. had a line of succession, President Johnson was relatively new to the Vietnam situation. Even though Johnson was new, he still had Kennedy's cabinet and advisers to aid his decisions. Despite this, by early 1964 two new leaders, Nguyen Khanh and Lyndon Johnson sought a solution to the decades long struggle in Vietnam. President Johnson inherited a three-front war in Vietnam. One front was North Vietnamese support of the Viet Cong (VC) insurgency in South Vietnam, and Johnson had to stop this support in order to defeat the VC. The insurgency itself constituted another front that had to be defeated in order to maintain a free and independent South Vietnam. The third overarching front was the creation of a stable and legitimate government in Saigon capable of governing the people of South Vietnam. The question for his administration was on which of these aspects to focus. Before Johnson could make that decision, he first had to decide if the U.S. should continue to aid Saigon; therefore, he had three options: leave Vietnam, continue in an advisory role, or escalate U.S. involvement. The political and military situations in Vietnam deteriorated to such a point through 1964-1965 that by February 1965 there were no good choices left from which President Johnson could choose. Johnson desired for there to be a stable South Vietnamese government before he committed U.S. forces to its defense; however, no such government emerged. The administration was unwilling to risk U.S. prestige, resources, and lives unless they were confident South Vietnam could succeed without U.S. support. Because of the instability in South Vietnam as well as the perceived risk of communist aggression, President Johnson decided that escalatory military actions would be limited and gradual. Therefore, President Johnson made the least bad decision he could in February 1965 by initiating Operation ROLLING THUNDER and committing the United States to the Vietnam War.

The Tooth and the Tail (Paperback): Lawrence Rock The Tooth and the Tail (Paperback)
Lawrence Rock
R468 Discovery Miles 4 680 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

An oral history of American Support Troops, our hidden army, during the Vietnam War.

Vietnam Studies - Allied Participation in Vietnam (Paperback): Department of the Army Vietnam Studies - Allied Participation in Vietnam (Paperback)
Department of the Army
R452 Discovery Miles 4 520 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Vietnam Studies - The Development and Training of the South Vietnamese Army 1950-1972 (Paperback): Department of the Army Vietnam Studies - The Development and Training of the South Vietnamese Army 1950-1972 (Paperback)
Department of the Army
R394 Discovery Miles 3 940 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Seven Firefights in Vietnam (Paperback): Office of the Chief of Military History Seven Firefights in Vietnam (Paperback)
Office of the Chief of Military History
R440 Discovery Miles 4 400 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Blades Carry Me - Inside the Helicopter War in Vietnam (Paperback): Anne Weatherill, James V. Weatherill The Blades Carry Me - Inside the Helicopter War in Vietnam (Paperback)
Anne Weatherill, James V. Weatherill
R492 Discovery Miles 4 920 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

James V. Weatherill served as an Army helicopter pilot in Vietnam from November 1967 to November 1968. His memoir, THE BLADES CARRY ME: INSIDE THE HELICOPTER WAR IN VIETNAM, takes the reader into the CH-47 Chinook helicopter cockpit and the daily life of a 22-year-old pilot. The young man must reconcile his ideals of patriotism, courage, and honor with the reality and politics of a war where victory is measured by body-count ratios instead of territory gained or lost. When it's time to go home, he realizes he'll leave more than war behind. On the home front, the pilot's wife, Annie, provides a counterpoint as a pregnant college senior and military spouse during an unpopular war. With letters and tape recordings their sole means of communication, how will they grow up without growing apart?

In the Jungle... Camping with the Enemy (Paperback): W. James Seymour In the Jungle... Camping with the Enemy (Paperback)
W. James Seymour
R460 Discovery Miles 4 600 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

During the Vietnam War, when conventional warfare tactics weren't proving enough to eliminate Communist insurgency, the U.S. Army implemented small unit operations to take a new kind of fight to the enemy. Five to six man Long Range Patrol teams, composed of specially trained young enlisted soldiers, went behind enemy lines to gather intelligence on Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army units, capture POWs, or set deadly ambushes that unnerved the enemy in their once-thought-secure jungle sanctuaries. These Long Range Patrol or LRP teams would lead to the re-establishment of the 75th Infantry Ranger Companies in combat and would carry on the proud history and legacy of the U.S. Army Rangers. It would also earn them a coveted place in special operations units, at times at a painful and deadly cost. In this remarkably humble, first-hand account, Seymour covers what it took to do 54 LRP/Ranger missions behind the lines, and the dozens of team insertions and white knuckle extractions that he took part in. In The Jungle... Camping with the Enemy offers a unique and personal insight from an extraordinary soldier and those who served as LRP/Rangers with the U.S. Army First Air Cavalry Division.

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