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Books > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > From 1900 > Postwar, from 1945 > Vietnam War

Grunt Slang in Vietnam - Words of the War (Hardcover): Gordon L. Rottman Grunt Slang in Vietnam - Words of the War (Hardcover)
Gordon L. Rottman
R598 Discovery Miles 5 980 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The slang, the unique vocabulary of the soldiers and Marines serving in Vietnam was a mishmash of words and phrases reaching back to the Korean War, World War II, and even earlier. At the same time it used words and phrases reflecting the country's changing protest culture at home, ideological and poetical doctrine, ethical and cultural conflicts, and racialism and the drug culture. The slanguage in Vietnam was made even more complex by the Pidgin Vietnamese-English used by Americans and Vietnamese alike. American culture and society were changing rapidly and drastically at home and this bled into Vietnam. In the jungles, swamps, and hills of Vietnam soldier and marine slang also followed the traditional path of what was important to their daily lives: their leaders, the harsh environment, food, uniforms, weapons, equipment, and how they fought and lived in the country.

Vietnam (Paperback): Nigel Cawthorne Vietnam (Paperback)
Nigel Cawthorne
R245 R191 Discovery Miles 1 910 Save R54 (22%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Brown Water, Black Berets - Coastal and Riverine Warfare in Vietnam (Paperback, New edition): Thomas J. Cutler Brown Water, Black Berets - Coastal and Riverine Warfare in Vietnam (Paperback, New edition)
Thomas J. Cutler
R979 Discovery Miles 9 790 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The men of the U.S. Navy's brown-water force played a vital but often overlooked role in the Vietnam War. Known for their black berets and limitless courage, they maneuvered their aging, makeshift craft along shallow coastal waters and twisting inland waterways to search out the enemy. In this moving tribute to their contributions and sacrifices, Tom Cutler records their dramatic story as only a participant could. His own Vietnam experience enables him to add a striking human dimension to the account. The terror of firefights along the jungle-lined rivers, the rigors of camp life, and the sudden perils of guerrilla warfare are conveyed with authenticity. At the same time, the author's training as a historian allows him to objectively describe the scope of the navy's operations and evaluate their effectiveness.
Winner of the Navy League's Alfred Thayer Mahan Award for Literary Achievement in 1988 when the book was first published, Cutler is credited with having written the definitive history of the brown-water sailors, an effort that has helped readers better understand the nature of U.S. involvement in the war.

Budapest to Vietnam (Paperback): Nicholas J Hun, Michael L Jewell Budapest to Vietnam (Paperback)
Nicholas J Hun, Michael L Jewell
R562 Discovery Miles 5 620 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
What Remains - Bringing America's Missing Home from the Vietnam War (Hardcover): Sarah E. Wagner What Remains - Bringing America's Missing Home from the Vietnam War (Hardcover)
Sarah E. Wagner
R718 Discovery Miles 7 180 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Winner of the 2020 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing Nearly 1,600 Americans are still unaccounted for and presumed dead from the Vietnam War. These are the stories of those who mourn and continue to search for them. For many families the Vietnam War remains unsettled. Nearly 1,600 Americans-and more than 300,000 Vietnamese-involved in the conflict are still unaccounted for. In What Remains, Sarah E. Wagner tells the stories of America's missing service members and the families and communities that continue to search for them. From the scientists who work to identify the dead using bits of bone unearthed in Vietnamese jungles to the relatives who press government officials to find the remains of their loved ones, Wagner introduces us to the men and women who seek to bring the missing back home. Through their experiences she examines the ongoing toll of America's most fraught war. Every generation has known the uncertainties of war. Collective memorials, such as the Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington National Cemetery, testify to the many service members who never return, their fates still unresolved. But advances in forensic science have provided new and powerful tools to identify the remains of the missing, often from the merest trace-a tooth or other fragment. These new techniques have enabled military experts to recover, repatriate, identify, and return the remains of lost service members. So promising are these scientific developments that they have raised the expectations of military families hoping to locate their missing. As Wagner shows, the possibility of such homecomings compels Americans to wrestle anew with their memories, as with the weight of their loved ones' sacrifices, and to reevaluate what it means to wage war and die on behalf of the nation.

The Psychological War for Vietnam, 1960-1968 (Hardcover): Mervyn Edwin Roberts III The Psychological War for Vietnam, 1960-1968 (Hardcover)
Mervyn Edwin Roberts III
R1,458 Discovery Miles 14 580 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Psychological War for Vietnam, 1960-1968, for the first time fully explores the most sustained, intensive use of psychological operations (PSYOP) in American history. In PSYOP, US military personnel use a variety of tactics-mostly audio and visual messages-to influence individuals and groups to behave in ways that favor US objectives. Informed by the author's firsthand experience of such operations elsewhere, this account of the battle for "hearts and minds" in Vietnam offers rare insight into the art and science of propaganda as a military tool in the twentieth century. The Psychological War for Vietnam, 1960-1968, focuses on the creation, capabilities, and performance of the forces that conducted PSYOP in Vietnam, including the Joint US Public Affairs Office and the 4th PSYOP Group. In his comprehensive account, Mervyn Edwin Roberts III covers psychological operations across the entire theater, by all involved US agencies. His book reveals the complex interplay of these activities within the wider context of Vietnam and the Cold War propaganda battle being fought by the United States at the same time. Because PSYOP never occurs in a vacuum, Roberts considers the shifting influence of alternative sources of information-especially from the governments of North and South Vietnam, but also from Australia, Korea, and the Philippines. The Psychological War for Vietnam, 1960-1968, also addresses the development of PSYOP doctrine and training in the period prior to the introduction of ground combat forces in 1965 and, finally, shows how the course of the war itself forced changes to this doctrine. The scope of the book allows for a unique measurement of the effectiveness of psychological operations over time.

LZ Sitting Duck - The Fight for FSB Argonne (Hardcover): John Arsenault Ltcol Usmc (Ret), Thomas Gourneau Uscg LZ Sitting Duck - The Fight for FSB Argonne (Hardcover)
John Arsenault Ltcol Usmc (Ret), Thomas Gourneau Uscg
R885 Discovery Miles 8 850 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Typhoon Truce, 1970 - Three Days in Vietnam When Nature Intervened in the War (Hardcover): Robert F Curtis The Typhoon Truce, 1970 - Three Days in Vietnam When Nature Intervened in the War (Hardcover)
Robert F Curtis
R762 R601 Discovery Miles 6 010 Save R161 (21%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

It wasn't rockets or artillery that came through the skies one week during the war. It was the horrific force of nature that suddenly put both sides in awe. As an unofficial truce began, questions and emotions battled inside every air crewman's mind as they faced masses of Vietnamese civilians outside their protective base perimeters for the first time. Could we trust them not to shoot? Could they trust us not to drop them off in a detention camp? Truces never last, but life changes a bit for all the people involved while they are happening. Sometimes wars are suspended and fighting stops for a while. A holiday that both sides recognize might do it, as happened in the Christmas truce during World War I. Weather might do it, too, as it did in Vietnam in October 1970. The "typhoon truce" was just as real, and the war stopped for three days in northern I Corps--that area bordering the demilitarized zone separating South Vietnam from the North. The unofficial "typhoon truce" came because first, Super Typhoon Joan arrived, devastating all the coastal lowlands in I Corps and further up into North Vietnam. Then, less than a week later came Super Typhoon Kate. Kate hit the same area with renewed fury, leaving the entire countryside under water and the people there faced with both war and natural disaster at the same time. No one but the Americans, the foreign warriors fighting throughout the country, had the resources to help the people who lived in the lowlands, and so they did. For the men who took their helicopters out into the unending rain it really made little difference. Perhaps no one would shoot at them for a while, but the everyday dangers they faced remained, magnified by the low clouds and poor visibility. The crews got just as tired, maybe more so, than on normal missions. None of that really mattered. The aircrews of the 101st Airborne went out to help anyway, because rescuing people was now their mission. In this book we see how for a brief period during an otherwise vicious war, saving life took precedence over bloody conflict.

America'S Modern Wars - Understanding Iraq, Afghanistan and Vietnam (Hardcover): Christopher A. Lawrence America'S Modern Wars - Understanding Iraq, Afghanistan and Vietnam (Hardcover)
Christopher A. Lawrence
R778 R618 Discovery Miles 6 180 Save R160 (21%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

While the past half-century has seen no diminution in the valor and fighting skill of the U.S. military and its allies, the fact remains that our wars have become more protracted, with decisive results more elusive. With only two exceptions-Panama and the Gulf War under the first President Bush-our campaigns have taken on the character of endless slogs without positive results. This fascinating book takes a ground-up look at the problem in order to assess how our strategic objectives have recently become divorced from our true capability, or imperatives. The book presents a unique examination of the nature of insurgencies and the three major guerrilla wars the United States has fought in Iraq, Afghanistan and Vietnam. It is both a theoretical work and one that applies the hard experience of the last five decades to address the issues of today. As such, it also provides a timely and meaningful discussion of America's current geopolitical position. It starts with the previously close-held casualty estimate for Iraq that The Dupuy Institute compiled in 2004 for the U.S. Department of Defense. Going from the practical to the theoretical, it then discusses a construct for understanding insurgencies and the contexts in which they can be fought. It applies these principles to Iraq, Afghanistan and Vietnam, assessing where the projection of U.S. power can enhance our position and where it merely weakens it. It presents an extensive analysis of insurgencies based upon a unique database of 83 post-WWII cases. The book explores what is important to combat and what is not important to resist in insurgencies. As such, it builds a body of knowledge based upon a half-century's worth of real-world data, with analysis, not opinion. In these pages, Christopher A. Lawrence, the President of The Dupuy Institute, provides an invaluable guide to how the U.S. can best project its vital power, while avoiding the missteps of the recent past.

The Third Chopstick - Tracks through the Vietnam War (Paperback): Biff Ward The Third Chopstick - Tracks through the Vietnam War (Paperback)
Biff Ward
R606 R537 Discovery Miles 5 370 Save R69 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Limits of Air Power - The American Bombing of North Vietnam (Paperback, New edition): Mark Clodfelter The Limits of Air Power - The American Bombing of North Vietnam (Paperback, New edition)
Mark Clodfelter
R553 R467 Discovery Miles 4 670 Save R86 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Tracing the use of air power in World War II and the Korean War, Mark Clodfelter explains how U. S. Air Force doctrine evolved through the American experience in these conventional wars only to be thwarted in the context of a limited guerrilla struggle in Vietnam. Although a faith in bombing's sheer destructive power led air commanders to believe that extensive air assaults could win the war at any time, the Vietnam experience instead showed how even intense aerial attacks may not achieve military or political objectives in a limited war. Based on findings from previously classified documents in presidential libraries and air force archives as well as on interviews with civilian and military decision makers, "The Limits of Air Power" argues that reliance on air campaigns as a primary instrument of warfare could not have produced lasting victory in Vietnam. This Bison Books edition includes a new chapter that provides a framework for evaluating air power effectiveness in future conflicts.

Our Vietnam Wars, Volume 2 - as told by more veterans who served (Paperback): William F. Brown Our Vietnam Wars, Volume 2 - as told by more veterans who served (Paperback)
William F. Brown
R665 R555 Discovery Miles 5 550 Save R110 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Vietnam Journal - Book 6 - Bloodbath at Khe Sanh (Paperback): Don Lomax Vietnam Journal - Book 6 - Bloodbath at Khe Sanh (Paperback)
Don Lomax; Illustrated by Don Lomax
R441 R365 Discovery Miles 3 650 Save R76 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Taking Fire - Saving Captain Aikman: a Story of the Vietnam Air War (Hardcover): Kevin O'Rourke Taking Fire - Saving Captain Aikman: a Story of the Vietnam Air War (Hardcover)
Kevin O'Rourke
R762 R601 Discovery Miles 6 010 Save R161 (21%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

American military special operations forces-Rangers, SEALs, and others-have become a well-recognised and highly respected part of our popular culture. But whom do these elite warriors look to in their times of greatest need: when wounded on the battlefield, cut off deep behind enemy lines, or adrift in the expanse of the world's oceans? They look skyward, hoping to catch a glimpse of their own personal guardian angel: a U.S. Air Force pararescue jumper (PJ) who lives, and sometimes dies, by the motto that others may live. Taking Fire provides an up-close look into the heroism and mystique of this little known segment of the Air Force Special Tactics community by focusing on one of the most dramatic rescues of the Vietnam War. It was June 1972 and Capt. Lynn Aikman is returning from a bombing mission over North Vietnam when his F-4 Phantom is jumped by an enemy MiG and shot down. He and his backseater Tom Hanton eject from their crippled aircraft, but Hanton lands near a village and is quickly captured by local militia. Badly injured during the ejection, Aikman lands some distance from the village, and there is a chance that he can be recovered if American rescuers can reach him before the enemy does. Now on the ground and drifting in and out of consciousness, Captain Aikman looks up and suddenly sees his guardian angel in the form of USAF Pararescue Jumper Chuck McGrath. As Sergeant McGrath is preparing to hook the downed pilot to a hoist line, he sees it fall to the ground. Hostile fire on the hovering Jolly Green Giant rescue helicopter has damaged the hoist mechanism causing the operator to cut the line. While circling A-1 Skyraiders strafe the militia to keep them away from Aikman and McGrath, the helicopter crew races to come up with a plan. It's getting dark, and they'll only have one chance. Taking Fire is an exciting, highly dramatic story of life and death over North Vietnam. Much more than a chronicle the events of 27 June 1972, the book gives the reader an up-close look at the little known world of the U.S. Air Force's elite aerial rescue force.

Hanoi's Road to the Vietnam War, 1954-1965 (Paperback): Pierre Asselin Hanoi's Road to the Vietnam War, 1954-1965 (Paperback)
Pierre Asselin
R757 R654 Discovery Miles 6 540 Save R103 (14%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Hanoi's Road to the Vietnam War opens in 1954 with the signing of the Geneva accords that ended the eight-year-long Franco-Indochinese War and created two Vietnams. In agreeing to the accords, Ho Chi Minh and other leaders of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam anticipated a new period of peace leading to national reunification under their rule; they never imagined that within a decade they would be engaged in an even bigger feud with the United States. Basing his work on new and largely inaccessible Vietnamese materials as well as French, British, Canadian, and American documents, Pierre Asselin explores the communist path to war. Specifically, he examines the internal debates and other elements that shaped Hanoi's revolutionary strategy in the decade preceding US military intervention, and resulting domestic and foreign programs. Without exonerating Washington for its role in the advent of hostilities in 1965, Hanoi's Road to the Vietnam War demonstrates that those who directed the effort against the United States and its allies in Saigon were at least equally responsible for creating the circumstances that culminated in arguably the most tragic conflict of the Cold War era.

Along for the Ride - Navigating Through the Cold War, Vietnam, Laos & More (Hardcover): Henry Zeybel Along for the Ride - Navigating Through the Cold War, Vietnam, Laos & More (Hardcover)
Henry Zeybel
R606 Discovery Miles 6 060 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

During Hank Zeybel's first tour in Vietnam he flew 772 C130 sorties as a navigator. He volunteered for a second tour, requesting assignment to B26s so he could "shoot back." When B26s were removed from the inventory, he accepted a Spectre gunship crew slot, flying truck-busting missions over the Ho Chi Minh Trail. He describes the terror of flying through heavy AA fire over the trail, and the heroics of the pilots in bringing their crews through. Away from the war he recalls leave back in the US, his elderly father bewildered by his war-hardened attitude and black sense of humor. Contextualising his time with Spectre gunships, he compares his experiences with those of other airmen, like Phil Combies and Robin Olds, and his broader Air Force career - he joined upon graduating university in 1955 and his first operational assignment was as a B47 Stratojet navigator-bomber at Strategic Air Command - trained to drop thermonuclear bombs with precision. From 1957 to 1963, he logged over two thousand hours as a radar-bombardier in B47 Stratojets and B52 C-models. In this memoir of Vietnam, his Air Force career and his second career as a journalist and writer, Zeybel's admiration of the skill and bravery of pilots - many of whom who he depended on for his very survival - shines through his desciptions of combat missions and being "along for the ride."

The Ground Kisser (Hardcover): Lisa Smith The Ground Kisser (Hardcover)
Lisa Smith; As told by Thanh Duong Boyer
R796 Discovery Miles 7 960 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Girls Don't - A Woman's War in Vietnam (Hardcover): Inette Miller Girls Don't - A Woman's War in Vietnam (Hardcover)
Inette Miller
R743 R605 Discovery Miles 6 050 Save R138 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The year is 1970; the war in Vietnam is five years from over. The women's movement is newly resurgent, and feminists are summarily reviled as "libbers." Inette Miller is one year out of college-a reporter for a small-town newspaper. Her boyfriend gets drafted and is issued orders to Vietnam. Within their few remaining days together, Inette marries her US Army private, determined to accompany him to war. There are obstacles. All wives of US military are prohibited in country. With the aid of her newspaper's editor, Miller finagles a one-month work visa and becomes a war reporter. Her newspaper cannot afford life insurance beyond that. After thirty days, she is on her own. As one of the rare woman war correspondents in Vietnam and the only one also married to an Army soldier, Miller's experience was pathbreaking. Girls Don't shines a light on the conflicting motives that drive an ambitious woman of that era and illustrates the schizophrenic struggle between the forces of powerful feminist ideology and the contrarian forces of the world as it was. Girls Don't is the story of what happens when a twenty-three-year-old feminist makes her way into the land of machismo. This is a war story, a love story, and an open-hearted confessional within the burgeoning women's movement, chronicling its demands and its rewards.

US Marine vs NVA Soldier - Vietnam 1967-68 (Paperback): David R. Higgins US Marine vs NVA Soldier - Vietnam 1967-68 (Paperback)
David R. Higgins; Illustrated by Johnny Shumate
R423 R344 Discovery Miles 3 440 Save R79 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

In 1967-68, the United States Marine Corps (USMC) was on the front line of the defence of South Vietnam's Quang Tri province, which was at the very heart of the Vietnam conflict. Facing them were the soldiers of the North Vietnamese Army (NVA), men whose organization and equipment made them a very different opponent from the famous, irregular Viet Cong forces. From the 'Hill Battles' in April 1967 to the struggle for the city of Hue (January-March 1968) this bloody campaign forced the two sides into a gruelling trial of strength. The USMC held a general technological and logistical advantage - including close air support and airborne transport, technology, and supplies - but could not always utilize these resources effectively in mountainous, jungle, or urban environments better known by their Vietnamese opponents. In this arresting account of small-unit combat, David R. Higgins steps into the tropical terrain of Vietnam to assess the performance and experience of USMC and NVA forces in three savage battles that stretched both sides to the limit.

A Rumor of War - The Classic Vietnam Memoir (Paperback, 40th Anniversary ed.): Philip Caputo A Rumor of War - The Classic Vietnam Memoir (Paperback, 40th Anniversary ed.)
Philip Caputo; Foreword by Kevin Powers
R575 R437 Discovery Miles 4 370 Save R138 (24%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Dissenting POWs - From Vietnam's Hoa Lo Prison to America Today (Paperback): Tom Wilber, Jerry Lembcke Dissenting POWs - From Vietnam's Hoa Lo Prison to America Today (Paperback)
Tom Wilber, Jerry Lembcke
R427 Discovery Miles 4 270 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Even if you don't know much about the war in Vietnam, you've probably heard of "The Hanoi Hilton," or Hoa Lo Prison, where captured U.S. soldiers were held. What they did there and whether they were treated well or badly by the Vietnamese became lasting controversies. As military personnel returned from captivity in 1973, Americans became riveted by POW coming home stories. What had gone on behind these prison walls? Along with legends of lionized heroes who endured torture rather than reveal sensitive military information, there were news leaks suggesting that others had denounced the war in return for favorable treatment. What wasn't acknowledged, however, is that U.S. troop opposition to the war was vast and reached well into Hoa Loa Prison. Half a century after the fact, Dissenting POWs emerges to recover this history, and to discover what drove the factionalism in Hoa Lo. Looking into the underlying factional divide between prowar "hardliners" and antiwar "dissidents" among the POWs, authors Wilber and Lembcke delve into the postwar American culture that created the myths of the HeroPOW and the dissidents blamed for the loss of the war. What they found was surprising: It wasn't simply that some POWs were for the war and others against it, nor was it an officers versus enlisted men standoff. Rather, it was the class backgrounds of the captives and their precaptive experience that drew the lines. After the war, the hardcore hero holdouts-like John McCain-moved on to careers in politics and business, while the dissidents faded from view as the antiwar movement, that might otherwise have championed them, disbanded. Today, Dissenting POWs is a necessary myth buster, disabusing us of the revisionism that has replaced actual GI resistance with images of suffering POWs - ennobled victims that serve to suppress the fundamental questions of America's drift to endless war.

A Poetics of Space - Images of Con Dao (Paperback): Charles Fox, Sophie Fuggle, Charles Forsdick A Poetics of Space - Images of Con Dao (Paperback)
Charles Fox, Sophie Fuggle, Charles Forsdick
R366 Discovery Miles 3 660 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Coming All the Way Home - Memoir of an Assault Helicopter Aircraft Commander in Vietnam (Paperback): Fred McCarthy Coming All the Way Home - Memoir of an Assault Helicopter Aircraft Commander in Vietnam (Paperback)
Fred McCarthy
R869 R622 Discovery Miles 6 220 Save R247 (28%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In 1968, twenty-one-year-old Fred McCarthy transitioned from the monastic life of a seminary student to that of a U.S. Army helicopter gunship commander in Vietnam. Despite preparation from a family tradition of decorated combat service, a strong sense of patriotism, a love for aviation, and a desire for adventure, he got far more than he bargained for. Written after 50 years of reflection, reading, and study, this memoir tells both a universal story about war, adventure, and perseverance and, also shares the intensely personal experience of the Vietnam War and its legacy for those who fought in it. McCarthy describes many of his missions, reflects on the nature of being a combat helicopter pilot, and processes the experience through his poetry, letters home, and reflective analysis.

US Marine Corps F-4 Phantom II Units of the Vietnam War (Paperback): Jim Laurier US Marine Corps F-4 Phantom II Units of the Vietnam War (Paperback)
Jim Laurier; Peter E. Davies
R456 R371 Discovery Miles 3 710 Save R85 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Twenty-five US Marine Corps squadrons flew versions of the Phantom II and 11 of them used the aircraft in South-East Asia from May 1965 through to early 1973. Rather than the air-to-air missiles that were the main component in the original F-4 armament, these aircraft carried an ever-expanding range of weaponry. Some toted 24,500-lb bombs and others strafed with up to three 20 mm gun pods, while most flew daily sorties delivering napalm, Snakeye bombs and big Zuni rockets. Many US Marines holding small outpost positions in Laos and South Vietnam against heavy Viet Cong attack owed their lives to the Phantom II pilots who repeatedly drove off the enemy. The book will examine these missions in the context of US Marine Corps close-support doctrine, using the direct experience of a selection of the aircrew who flew and organised those missions.

Clear, Hold, and Destroy - Pacification in Phu Yen and the American War in Vietnam (Hardcover): Robert J. Thompson Clear, Hold, and Destroy - Pacification in Phu Yen and the American War in Vietnam (Hardcover)
Robert J. Thompson
R1,373 R1,036 Discovery Miles 10 360 Save R337 (25%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

By the end of the American war in Vietnam, the coastal province of Phu Yen was one of the least-secure provinces in the Republic of Vietnam. It was also a prominent target of the American strategy of pacification - an effort, purportedly separate and distinct from conventional warfare, to win the 'hearts and minds' of the Vietnamese. In Robert J. Thompson III's analysis, the consistent, and consistently unsuccessful, struggle to place Phu Yen under Saigon's banner makes the province particularly fertile ground for studying how the Americans advanced pacification and why this effort ultimately failed. In March 1970, a disastrous military engagement began in Phu Yen, revealing the enemy's continued presence after more than three years of pacification. Clear, Hold, and Destroy provides a fresh perspective on the war across multiple levels, from those making and implementing policy to those affected by it. Most pointedly, Thompson contends that pacification, far from existing apart from conventional warfare, actually depended on conventional military forces for its application. His study reaches back into Phu Yen's storied history with pacification before and during the French colonial period, then focuses on the province from the onset of the American War in 1965 to its conclusion in 1975. A sharply focused, fine-grained analysis of one critical province during the Vietnam War, Thompson's work demonstrates how pacification is better understood as the foundation of U.S. fighting in Vietnam.

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