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US Special Forces and Counterinsurgency in Vietnam: Military Innovation and Institutional Failure, 1961-63

US Special Forces and Counterinsurgency in Vietnam: Military Innovation and Institutional Failure, 1961-63

Paperback

Series: Strategy and History

Southeast Asian HistoryTeaching InstructionVietnam War

ISBN10: 0415654726
ISBN13: 9780415654722
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jul 13 2012
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.64
Height: 0.43 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This volume examines US Army Special Forces efforts to mobilize and train indigenous minorities in Vietnam.

Christopher K. Ives shows how before the Second Indochina War, the Republic of Vietnam had begun to falter under the burden of an increasingly successful insurgency. The dominant American military culture could not conform to President Kennedy's guidance to wage 'small wars', while President Diem's provincial and military structures provided neither assistance nor security. The Green Berets developed and executed effective counterinsurgency tactics and operations with strategic implications while living, training, and finally fighting with the Montagnard peoples in the Central Highlands. Special Forces soldiers developed and executed what needed to be done to mobilize indigenous minorities, having assessed what needed to be known.

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