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Author : Jack E. Pattison
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (288 download)
Download or read book Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue written by Jack E. Pattison and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 60 pages
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Download or read book Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue: The Marriage of Strategy and Tactics in Vietnam written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph discusses operational art in Vietnam. The research question used to focus this study effort was how did the United States perform in conducting operational art in Vietnam? Since operational art is the vital link between strategy and tactics, this title captures the essence of the monograph. After a brief introduction, the monograph reviews and analyzes the Army's doctrine for the Vietnam war, FM 100-5 (1962). That doctrine was found to be sound. It was particularly strong in describing unconventional warfare, military operations against irregular forces, situations short of war, the spectrum of war and limited war. It was noticeably weak in describing infiltration and the articulation of theater operations. Current doctrine and contemporary writings were reviewed in order to establish and define operational art and the operational level of war. Operational level of war; Operational art; Campaigns; Theater of operations; Major operations. (jes).
Author : Lt.-Col. Peter J. Schifferle
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786251884
Total Pages : 105 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (862 download)
Download or read book The Ia Drang Campaign 1965: A Successful Operational Campaign Or Mere Tactical Failure? written by Lt.-Col. Peter J. Schifferle and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph analyzes the effectiveness of operational campaign design during the initial US ground combat in the Vietnam War. The focus is on the linkage of national strategic ends with military means and ways from the Spring of 1965 through the results of the la Drang battles of November 1965. The monograph identifies lessons from this period that are applicable to current US Joint and Army doctrine as well as lessons for planners and executors of US military action under the American system of civilian control of the military. First, the monograph evaluates current US doctrine for campaigns and identifies the concept of linkage of national strategic ends with military ways and means as critical to successful campaign design. Then the monograph assesses US military doctrine in 1965, identifying the weakness of unconventional warfare capabilities. A detailed discussion of the concept of both limited war and gradualism as national strategies, includes the limits on military action imposed by these strategies. Section III identifies specific military objectives identified by the National Command Authority, including preventing the war in Vietnam from escalating to a general war. The primacy of President Johnson’s domestic concerns is also identified. The monograph then assesses the effectiveness of US military campaign planning and execution in 1965. The conclusion is that the operational ways and means used by General Westmoreland in the conduct of his chosen strategy of attrition were not linked in any way with the national strategic aim of limited warfare. The monograph also identifies a failure in supervision by civilian leaders, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff, of the military planning and conduct of the air and ground campaign in South Vietnam. Too little supervision was the cause of failure, not over supervision by the civilian and military leadership.
Author : Adam B. Lowther
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0275996360
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (759 download)
Download or read book Americans and Asymmetric Conflict written by Adam B. Lowther and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2007-07-30 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the War in Iraq continues to rage, many in the White House, State Department, Department of Defense, and outside government are left to wonder if it was possible to foresee the difficulty the United States is currently having with Sunni nationalists and Islamic extremists. Recent American military experience offers significant insight into this question. With the fog of the Cold War finally lifting and clarity returning to the nature of conflict, the dominance of asymmetry in the military experience of the United States is all too evident. Lebanon (1982-1984), Somalia (1992-1994), and Afghanistan (2001-2004) offer recent and relevant insight into successes and failures of American attempts to fight adversaries utilizing asymmetric conflict to combat the United States when it intervened in these three states. The results illustrate the difficulty of engaging adversaries unwilling to wage a conventional war and the need for improved strategic and tactical doctrine. It is easy, Lowther writes, for Americans to forget the lessons of past conflicts as the politics of the present dominate.... His purpose here is to highlight some of history's recent lessons so that we may move forward with an awareness of what experience offers.
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Total Pages : 1316 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Government Reports Annual Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 1316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 1572 pages
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Download or read book Government Reports Announcements & Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1990-04 with total page 1572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Harry G. Summers
Publisher : Presidio Press
ISBN 13 : 0307558762
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)
Download or read book On Strategy written by Harry G. Summers and published by Presidio Press. This book was released on 2009-02-04 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stunning in its insight, On Strategy is required reading not just for everyone who is interested in the Vietnam War, but for anyone who is concerned about the place of the United States on the world stage and how America can, and more importantly cannot, employ its immense military force to help bring peace to an increasingly troubled world. “On Stategy is just about the best thing I have read on Vietnam.”—Drew Middleton, The New York Times “Perhaps the most trenchant single postmortem to date of our defeat in Vietnam . . . a classic . . . compact, subtle—and surprisingly readable.”—Newsweek “At our house, we sleep less easily now that Harry G. Summers Jr., Colonel of Infantry, is no longer defending us. After two wars and 38 years of active duty, Summers has retired from the Army. . . . Every taxpayer should mourn his loss. Colonel Summers is perhaps the most influential thinker of our time: his book On Strategy is required reading at the Army and Naval War Colleges.”—Jack Beatty, Boston Globe “This investigation of the U.S. army’s role in the Vietnam War is widely recognized as the single most useful postmortem on the unpopular war.”—The Washington Post Book World “The most detailed exposition of this view—that the U.S. threw away whatever chance for victory it may have had through blunders that must not be repeated—comes from Col. Harry Summers, whose book, On Strategy, has become must reading for young officers.”—Time “A masterful analysis of the strategy, or lack thereof, in the Vietnam War . . . The best critique of the war I have read and a book every policy maker in Washington should absorb.”—Max Cleland, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Author : Harry G Summers
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486121550
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)
Download or read book American Strategy in Vietnam written by Harry G Summers and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-04-19 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A politico-military assessment of the Vietnam War analyzing the U.S. Army's strategic and tactical ideologies. Particularly relevant today, it stresses the futility of any military action without the full support of the people.
Author : Harry G. Summers
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Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book On Strategy written by Harry G. Summers and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ngoc Lung Hoang
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Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Strategy and Tactics written by Ngoc Lung Hoang and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Harry G. Summers
Publisher : U.S. Government Printing Office
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Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book On Strategy written by Harry G. Summers and published by U.S. Government Printing Office. This book was released on 1981 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Major Dale S. Ringler
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786252856
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (862 download)
Download or read book How The North Vietnamese Won The War: Operational Art Bends But Does Not Break In Response To Asymmetry written by Major Dale S. Ringler and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph analyzes the effectiveness of operational campaign design against an asymmetrical threat during the 1968 Tet Offensive. The focus is on conceptual elements of campaign design that are derived from theory, which incorporate the particulars of military history to the general truth of warfare. Effective campaign execution is dependent, in part, on effective campaign design that set of theoretical and doctrinal precepts that define the concerns of the operational planner. The monograph identifies lessons learned from this period that are applicable to current U.S. Joint and Army doctrine as well as lessons for planners and executors of U.S. military action under the American system of civilian control of the military. First, the monograph demonstrated the complex nature of asymmetric warfare. Finding and creating vulnerabilities and attacking those vulnerabilities with inherent strengths is the key to asymmetric warfare. Secondly, the monograph discussed the elements of campaign design that are derived from theory, which incorporate the particulars of military history to the general truth of warfare. Some of the more common conceptual actions are to understand the type and scope of conflict, define the enemy and friendly center of gravity, identify possible culminating points, select lines of operation, determine decisive points, and understanding the dangers of paralysis commonly known as cyber shock. The third section identifies the strategy and identifies particular military objectives identified by the North Vietnamese.
Author : Ulysses S. Grant Sharp
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Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Strategy for Defeat written by Ulysses S. Grant Sharp and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Hancock Hay
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Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Vietnam Studies written by John Hancock Hay and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Major Ian J. Townsend
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786250187
Total Pages : 93 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (862 download)
Download or read book Combined Action Platoons In The Vietnam War: written by Major Ian J. Townsend and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Vietnam, the III Marine Amphibious Force used Combined Action Platoons (CAPs) as one part of its operational level counterinsurgency campaign. These platoons provided security assistance to the South Vietnamese Popular Forces and civic action to the village based population. To measure the operational effectiveness and the current relevancy of this specific type of combined action their activities are evaluated against current Army counterinsurgency doctrine. This monograph demonstrates the value of the CAPs as one element in the context of a counterinsurgency campaign, and how this form of combined action may serve as a tool for Army commanders conducting operational art in future. Independent operations are not the future of American warfare in the 21st Century. Contemporary thought about the future of American warfare is that the “conventional forces of the United States Army will have an enduring requirement to build the security forces and security ministries of other countries.” Some form of combined action will be a required in American military operations for the foreseeable future. Given this truth, CAPs provide a practical historical example of a combined action technique that can serve as a tool for the future.
Author : Wray R. Johnson
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Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Vietnam and American Doctrine for Small Wars written by Wray R. Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States Military Academy Tactical Officer Education Program
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781500331078
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (31 download)
Download or read book A Reflection of the Army written by United States Military Academy Tactical Officer Education Program and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-06-27 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American military planners had no reason to believe that Vietnam would be the place of its first defeat. A motley assortment of black-clad Viet Cong guerillas in South Vietnam did not seem like a threat to the military might of the United States. How did the leadership and war planners allow this to happen? Did they fail to understand the political nature of this conflict and were they unwilling to modify their convential strategy to deal with an insurgency? The Army disregarded counterinsurgency, preferring to prepare for what it saw as the more serious threat-a major war in Europe involving the Soviets. President John F. Kennedy's aide Roger Hilsman suggested in 1962 that the U.S. Military and ''West Pointers" felt there could only be a military solution to Vietnam and that 'winning the hearts and minds was somebody else's job West Point's reluctance to teach counterinsurgency to its cadets during this period reflected the Army's conventional perspective on strategy and tactics prim to and during the Vietnam War.
