Tom Casey

1968 Mission Accomplished Advise & Dissent: My Year with Macv

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Atmosphere Press
• Seitenzahl: 552
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. November 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 203mm x 76mm
• Gewicht: 907g
• ISBN-13: 9781098389215
• ISBN-10: 1098389212
• Artikelnr.: 62754438

Autorenporträt

Thomas Casey graduated from West Point in 1963. He was assigned to a 155 mm artillery unit in Germany for three years then attended the advanced Artillery course at Forts Sill and Bliss before completing the Vietnamese language course at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California. He arrived in Vietnam in 1967 and was assigned as the senior advisor to the Vietnamese Army !V Corps 155mm artillery support unit in Binh Thuy where he spent his year assisting the Army and the civilian population in their effort to win their own conflict with the insurgency on their own terms, not win their war for them. He left Vietnam at the end of 1968 for a final Army assignment as an assistant professor of ROTC at Stanford where he was promoted to major prior to leaving the service and going into the business world brokering commercial real estate. He retired in 1989 after serious injuries from an automobile accident.