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MACV : the Joint Command in the years of escalation, 1962-1967 / by Graham A. Cosmas.
LIBRA DS558 .C68 2006
Available from offsite location
LIBRA DS558 .C68 2006
Available from offsite location
LIBRA DS558 .C68 2006
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Cosmas, Graham A.
- Series:
- United States Army in Vietnam
- CMH pub ; 91-6-1.
- CMH Pub ; 91-6-1
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Military Assistance Command, Vietnam.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975--United States.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975.
- United States. Military Assistance Command, Vietnam--History.
- United States.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 524 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps, portraits ; 25 cm.
- Other Title:
- Military Assistance Command, Vietnam : the Joint Command in the years of escalation, 1962-1967
- Joint Command in the years of escalation, 1962-1967
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Center of Military History, U.S. Army : For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., 2006.
- Summary:
- CMH Pub 91-6. United States Army in Vietnam. Covers the United States buildup in Vietnam from every angle: strategy, operations, tactics, logistics, inter-service relations, personnel policy, diplomacy, civil relations, and the handling of the news media to show how the Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (MACV) developed and became the linchpin holding the entire American effort in Vietnam together.
- Contents:
- 1 A Deepening Commitment and a New Command 3
- Beginnings of United States Involvement 5
- Toward the Second Indochina War 8
- The United States Responds to the New Threat 15
- Creating the Command 21
- 2 A Joint Command: Complications and Conflicts, 1962-1963 35
- MACV and the Pacific Chain of Command 36
- MACV and the MAAG 42
- Formation of MACV Headquarters 44
- The Component Commands 53
- The Debate over Control of Air Power 56
- A Small But Complicated Command 60
- 3 From Hope to Frustration 71
- The Enemy 71
- Developing an Allied Strategy 75
- The Campaign Falls Apart 85
- MACV and the Coup Against Diem 95
- 4 Reorganizing and Reviving Pacification 117
- United States Policy: Picking Up the Pieces 117
- Hanoi Prepares for a Larger War 120
- A New MACV Commander 122
- Headquarters Reorganization and Expansion 125
- MACV: Executive Agent for Pacification? 139
- Struggling for Stability 144
- 5 The Beginning of Escalation 157
- Widening the War 157
- OPLAN 34A 159
- Air and Ground Operations in Laos 161
- Early Planning for the Air War 164
- After Tonkin Gulf: Reinforcing the South 167
- Air War in the North: Planning and Command 172
- The Marines Land at Da Nang 176
- 6 Beginnings of the Ground Troop Commitment, January-June 1965 187
- Plans and Proposals, 1954-1964 187
- Collapse of the Chien Thang Plan 190
- A Limited Response 195
- Three Proposals for Sending Troops 200
- Edging into the Ground War 206
- Questions of Command and the Concept of Operations 212
- Where the Question Stood, June 1965 218
- 7 The Fateful Decisions, June 1965-February 1966 227
- South Vietnam in Peril 227
- Air Power Holds Back the Enemy 230
- Decisions for an American Ground War 232
- Implementing Phase I 245
- Planning Phase II 252
- Decisions at Honolulu 256
- 8 MACV Headquarters: The Years of Expansion, 1965-1967 267
- Enlarging the Headquarters 267
- Planning and Control of Operations 275
- Combined Intelligence 284
- The Advisory Mission 288
- Reporting, Research, and Analysis 290
- How Joint the Command? 295
- 9 Controlling U.S. Forces 307
- Military Assistance Command, Pacific Command, and the JCS 307
- Naval Forces, Vietnam 310
- U.S. Army, Vietnam: A Question of Roles 314
- The Seventh Air Force: A Multiplicity of Masters 320
- The Air War in the South: A Single Manager? 323
- The Field Forces and the III Marine Amphibious Force 331
- 10 The Allies and Pacification 343
- The Allies 343
- The South Vietnamese: Cooperation and Coordination 348
- Pacification and Saigon Politics 353
- CORDS: A Single Manager at Last 357
- 11 The Wider Theater 371
- Fragmentation of Command 371
- The Ho Chi Minh Trail and the Plain of Jars 373
- Cambodia 379
- MACV and Rolling Thunder 382
- A Tangled Chain of Command 389
- 12 An Evolving Strategy 395
- Basic Questions 395
- The Initial Concept 397
- Problems of Implementation 405
- More Troops or a New Strategy? 411
- Incremental Adjustments 420
- 13 An Autumn of Uncertainty 439
- The Public Relations War 441
- The Order of Battle Controversy 446
- President Johnson Moves To Level Off the War 461
- The Enemy Plans an Offensive 466
- 14 Conclusion: The Years of Escalation 477
- MACV Principal Officers at Activation 48
- 1 U.S. Military Assistance Command, Vietnam, 1964 61
- 2 U.S. Military Assistance Command, Vietnam, 31 December 1964 133
- 3 Organization of MACV Headquarters, May 1967 276
- 4 Pacific Command Relationships, 1967 319.
- Notes:
- Shipping list no.: 2008-0380-P.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- "PIN:081780-000"--P. [4] of cover.
- ISBN:
- 0160723671
- 9780160723674
- OCLC:
- 61463657
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