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US Special Forces and counterinsurgency in Vietnam : military innovation and institutional failure, 1961-1963 / Christopher K. Ives.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Ives, Christopher K.
Series:
Cass series--strategy and history ; 20.
Strategy and history
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
United States. Army. Special Forces.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Underground movements.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975.
War--Underground movements.
Counterinsurgency--Vietnam.
Counterinsurgency.
United States. Army. Special Forces--History.
United States.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Regimental histories--United States.
Strategy--History--20th century.
Strategy.
History.
Vietnam.
Physical Description:
viii, 180 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Place of Publication:
London ; New York : Routledge, 2007.
Contents:
Crossbows to carbines
Combatants and continuities
Contexts, doctrines, and discontinuities
Counterinsurgency in Vietnam
Choosing the wrong trails
Threatened hamlets and bad advice
Operational innovation, institutional failure.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [163]-172) and index.
ISBN:
0415400759
9780415400756
0203964942
9780203964941
OCLC:
70673243

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