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Author | : Gordon L. Rottman |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 66 |
Release | : 2011-03-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1849080321 |
In 1961 US Special Forces units began entering remote areas of Vietnam dominated by the Viet Cong. Their task was to organize local defense and strike forces aimed at stopping the enemy from gaining further control of such areas. The Green Berets set up fortified camps from which indigenous troops defended local villages and attacked and harassed the enemy. How these camps were constructed, developed, and defended is documented here for the first time. This book also covers the weapons, barriers, and obstacles used in these camps, providing specific examples of camp design, and details how they withstood the test of battle against a determined and resourceful enemy.
Author | : Gordon L. Rottman |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 173 |
Release | : 2011-10-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1780961405 |
In 1961 US Special Forces units began entering remote areas of Vietnam dominated by the Viet Cong. Their task was to organize local defense and strike forces aimed at stopping the enemy from gaining further control of such areas. The Green Berets set up fortified camps from which indigenous troops defended local villages and attacked and harassed the enemy. How these camps were constructed, developed, and defended is documented here for the first time. This book also covers the weapons, barriers, and obstacles used in these camps, providing specific examples of camp design, and details how they withstood the test of battle against a determined and resourceful enemy.
Author | : Francis John Kelly |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Vietnam War, 1961-1975 |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Colonel Francis John Kelly |
Publisher | : Pickle Partners Publishing |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2014-08-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1782893571 |
Includes 6 Maps, 25 photo illustrations, 10 Charts and 8 Tables. “As long ago as 1957, U.S. Army Special Forces soldiers were in the Republic of Vietnam, going about their business of training, advising, and assisting members of the Vietnamese Army. Despite the old Army witticism about never volunteering for anything, the Special Forces soldier is, in fact, a double volunteer, having first volunteered for airborne training and then again for Special Forces training. From a very meager beginning but sustained by a strong motivation and confidence in his mission, the Special Forces soldier has marched through the Vietnam struggle in superb fashion. “In 1957 some fifty-eight Vietnamese soldiers were given military training by Special Forces troops. Ten years later the Special Forces were advising and assisting over 40,000 paramilitary troops, along with another 40,000 Regional Forces and Popular Forces soldiers. This monograph traces the development and notes the progress, problems, successes, and failures of a unique program undertaken by the U.S. Army for the first time in its history. It is hoped that all the significant lessons learned have been recorded and the many pitfalls of such a program uncovered... “With the withdrawal of the Special Forces from Vietnam in 1971, the Army could honestly lay claim to a new dimension in ground warfare the organized employment of a paramilitary force in sustained combat against a determined enemy. I know I speak for my predecessors and successors in claiming that the 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne) was the finest collection of professional soldiers ever assembled by the U.S. Army, anywhere, anytime.”
Author | : Francis John Kelly |
Publisher | : Potomac Books |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Published with the Institute of Land Warfare, Association of the US Army. Traces the development and notes the progress, problems, successes and failures of the Special Forces effort in Vietnam. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author | : T. Smith |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Deployment (Strategy) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Gordon L. Rottman |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 66 |
Release | : 2012-06-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1782000577 |
Vietnam was the US Special Forces most complex and controversial mission, one that began in 1957 and ended in 1973. Camp strike forces, mobile strike forces, mobile guerrilla forces, special reconnaissance projects, training missions and headquarters duty provided vastly differing experiences and circumstances for SF soldiers. Other fluctuating factors were the terrain, the weather and the shifting course of the war itself. Gordon Rottman examines the training, life, weapons and combat experiences of the Special Forces soldier in this challenging environment.
Author | : Leigh Wade |
Publisher | : Ballantine Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Vietnam War, 1961-1975 |
ISBN | : 9780804118361 |
In the early hours of April 12, 1970, the NVA brutally attacked the Special Forces A-team camp at Dak Pek, seizing more than half the base--including the high ground and its 106mm recoilless rifle--plus the surrounding valley and mountains. Twenty kilometers south, at Dak Seang, another huge concentration of NVA was attempting to overrun the Special Forces camp there. Now it was time for the Americans to fight back. With gritty honesty, SF veteran--five tours in Vietnam and Thailand--Leigh Wade recounts the weeks of carnage, courage, and sacrifice in which the men of Dak Pek carried out bunker-to-bunker mop-up operations and heroic uphill counterattacks to reclaim their base. With hundreds of corpses littering the camp, it was truly a fight to the death--a fight that proved just what Americans are made of. . . .
Author | : Christopher K. Ives |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 199 |
Release | : 2007-01-24 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1134145853 |
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. Combining Clausewitz, business theory and strategic insight, this book provides an important starting point for thinking about how the US military should be approaching the problems of today's ‘small wars’. US Special Forces and Counterinsurgency in Vietnam will be of much interest to students of the Vietnam War, Special Forces operations, military innovation and strategic theory in general.
Author | : Gordon L. Rottman |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 191 |
Release | : 2013-07-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1472804643 |
US Special Forces in Vietnam created the Civilian Irregular Defence Group (CIDG), a large paramilitary organization designed to protect the local population from Viet Cong incursions, whilst conducting border surveillance, raids and combat patrols in the local area. Their camps were often overrun and having no spare manpower the US Special Forces created dedicated reaction units which could act in a responsive and flexible manner Mobile Strike (MIKE) Forces. This book examines the MIKE Force units, which were formed from the CIDG, the parachute and airmobile training they were given, and the operations that they undertook, from relieving friendly camps to independent offensive operations, providing the first organizational history of the MIKE forces in combat.