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Vietnam
December 2007
James H. Willbanks |
"The Most Brilliant Commander": Ngo Quang Truong General Norman Schwarzkopf was among those who had utmost respect for South Vietnamese General Ngo Quang Truong.   |
Vietnam
February 2007
James I. Marino |
Attack on Quang Tri City During the Vietnam War Like Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge, Quang Tri City was a vital communications crossroads that the enemy had to take in January of 1968. |
Vietnam
June 28, 2004
James Donovan |
Combined Action Program: Marines' Alternative to Search and Destroy The U.S. Marine Corps CAP just might have been a viable alternative to MACV's 'big battalions' strategy in Vietnam. |
Vietnam
August 24, 2004
Al Hemingway |
Harvey Barnum: Medal of Honor Recipient In-country for just two weeks, artillery forward observer Harvey Barnum assumed command of Hotel Company, 2nd Battalion, 9th Marines, during a Viet Cong ambush. Here, he talks about his experiences during two Vietnam tours. |
Vietnam
August 2007
Mark Bernstein |
Vietnam War: Operation Dewey Canyon One of the most successful offensives of the Vietnam War was also one of its most controversial. |
Vietnam
David T. Zabecki |
Battle for Saigon In the Tet Offensive of 1968, the Viet Cong prepared carefully for its objectives inside the "Saigon Circle." The result would be a plethora of battles -- and battles within battles. |
Vietnam
February 8, 2005
Peter Brush |
The Buddhist Crisis in Vietnam In 1966, resistance to the Saigon government almost sparked a South Vietnamese civil war. |
Vietnam
John M. Carland |
Interview with NVA General Tran Van Tra The field commander of military operations in the South, Tran Van Tra was North Vietnam's counterpart to General William Westmoreland. |
Parameters
Autumn 2005
Frank L. Jones |
Blowtorch: Robert Komer and the Making of Vietnam Pacification Policy The US-backed pacification program could not overcome the South Vietnamese government's defective execution of plans and programs, its omnipresent corruption, or its inability to develop a sturdy, self-sustaining political base. |
Vietnam
Richard W. Hale |
A CIA Officer in Saigon The CIA struggled to keep its operation in Vietnam going until the very fall of Saigon. |
Parameters
Spring 2006 |
Commentary & Reply Komer, CORDS, and Pacification: a reader commentary to Blowtorch: Robert Komer and the Making of Vietnam Pacification Policy... The Author Replies: Robert Komer and his US colleagues were not the only ones who perceived pacification chiefly as an internal problem... |
Parameters
Summer 2004
Robert M. Cassidy |
Back to the Street without Joy: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Vietnam and Other Small Wars This article aims to distill some of the more relevant counterinsurgency lessons from the American military's experiences during Vietnam and before. |
Vietnam
William L. Adams |
Conversation With the NVA Interviews with a top North Vietnam Army general and two former soldiers provide important insights into the other side's view of the Vietnam war. |
Vietnam
Alfred Rascon |
Alfred Rascon: A Case of Forgotten Valor In February 2000, 33 years after medic Alfred Rascon saved two lives in action in War Zone D, he finally received the Medal of Honor. |
Vietnam
Stephen B. Young |
LBJ's Disengagement Strategy Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker's charge from President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1967 was to de-escalate the Vietnam conflict without losing the war. He did just that. |
Vietnam
June 2006
James M. Haley |
1861 French Conquest of Saigon: Battle of the Ky Hoa Forts In an 1861 battle with the French, the Vietnamese showed some of the fighting tenacity they would later display in places like Dien Bien Phu and Hue during the 20th century. |
Vietnam
Ed McCaul |
Colonel Thomas Moe: Prisoner in North Vietnam Brought down by a faulty fuze on his wingman's bomb, Tom Moe survived more than five years as a POW in North Vietnam. |
