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Break in the Chain: Intelligence Ignored - Military Intelligence in Vietnam and Why the Easter Offensive Should Have Turned out Differently (Hardcover)
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Break in the Chain: Intelligence Ignored - Military Intelligence in Vietnam and Why the Easter Offensive Should Have Turned out Differently (Hardcover)
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For the first two weeks of the Easter Offensive of 1972, the 571st
Military Intelligence Detachment provided the only pertinent
collateral intelligence available to American forces. Twice daily,
the Detachment provided intelligence to the USS Buchanan (DDG-14),
US Navy SEALS and Special Forces units including tactical and
strategic forecasts of enemy movements, information that was
otherwise unavailable to U.S. units and advisors in-country. In the
weeks before the offensive, vital agent reports and verbal warnings
by the 571st MI Detachment had been ignored by all the major
commands; they were only heeded, and then only very reluctantly,
once the Offensive began. This refusal to listen to the
intelligence explains why no Army or USMC organizations were
on-call to recover prisoners discovered or U.S. personnel downed
behind enemy lines, as in the BAT-21 incident, as the last two
Combat Recon Platoons in Vietnam had been disbanded six weeks
before the offensive began. The lessons and experiences of
Operation Lam Son 719 in the previous year were ignored, especially
with regard to the NVA's tactical use of tanks and artillery. In
his memoir, Bob Baker, the only intelligence analyst with the 571st
MI Detachment in 1972, reveals these and other heroics and blunders
during a key moment in the Vietnam War.
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