The Army and Vietnam
A North American Hi..., American History, History book. Just re-read in full for the first time in probably eight years. Now that I'm more familiar with the...
Many senior army officials still claim that if they had been given enough soldiers and weapons, the United States could have won the war in Vietnam. In this probing analysis of U.S. military policy in Vietnam, career army officer and strategist Andrew F. Krepinevich, Jr., argues that precisely because of this mindset the war was lost before it was fought.The army assumed that it could transplant to Indochina the operational methods that had been successful in the European battle theaters of World War II, an approach that proved ill-suited to the way the Vietnamese Communist forces fought. Theirs was a...
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- Pages: 344 pages
- ISBN: 9780801836572 / 801836573
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Population centric COIN is a panacea! At least according to Krepinevich.... Certainly some useful insights and critiques of the US approach in Vietnam, but also somewhat one dimensional Just re-read in full for the first time in probably eight years. Now that I'm more familiar with the documentary record concerning Vietnam (and not just the "Vietnam literature" or the COIN-as-military reform oeuvre, which in many cases are the same thing), Krepinevich's tendentious book holds up very poorly indeed. Greg Daddis's new... interesting perspective on what should have happened for a successful intervention in Vietnam, but I felt the author kept placing the blame on the Army time and time again. yes, I realize that's the point of the book, but how many times can you drive the point home? endless, i guess! still, a very interesting and enlightening story...
