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Soldiering On in a Dying War - The True Story of the Firebase Pace Incidents and the Vietnam Drawdown (Paperback)
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Soldiering On in a Dying War - The True Story of the Firebase Pace Incidents and the Vietnam Drawdown (Paperback)
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By the autumn of 1971 a war-weary American public had endured a
steady stream of bad news about the conduct of its soldiers in
Vietnam. It included reports of fraggings, massacres, and
cover-ups, mutinies, increased racial tensions, and soaring drug
abuse. Then six soldiers at Fire Support Base Pace, a besieged U.S.
artillery outpost near the Cambodian border, balked at an order to
conduct a nighttime ambush patrol. Four days later, twenty soldiers
from a second unit objected to patrolling even in daylight. The
sensation these events triggered in the media, along with calls for
a congressional investigation, reinforced for the American public
the image of a dysfunctional military on the edge of collapse. For
a time Pace became the face of all that was wrong with American
troops during the extended withdrawal from Vietnam. William
Shkurti, however, argues that the incidents at Firebase Pace have
been misunderstood for four decades. Shkurti, who served as an
artillery officer not far from Pace, uses declassified reports,
first-person interviews, and other sources to reveal that these
incidents were only temporary disputes involving veteran soldiers
exercising common sense. Shkurti also uses the Pace incidents to
bring an entire war and our withdrawal from it into much sharper
focus. He reevaluates the performance and motivation of U.S. ground
troops and their commanders during this period, as well as that of
their South Vietnamese allies and North Vietnamese adversaries;
reassesses the media and its coverage of this phase of the war; and
shows how some historians have helped foster misguided notions
about what actually happened at Pace. By taking a closer look at
what we thought we knew, Shkurti persuasively demonstrates how
combat units still in harm's way adapted to the challenges before
them and soldiered on in a war everyone else wanted to be over. In
doing so, he also suggests a context to better understand the
challenges that may lie ahead in the drawdown of troops from Iraq
and Afghanistan.
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