Christopher K Ives

US Special Forces and Counterinsurgency in Vietnam

Military Innovation and Institutional Failure, 1961-63

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume examines US Army Special Forces efforts to mobilize and train indigenous minorities in Vietnam.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 290g
• ISBN-13: 9780415654722
• ISBN-10: 0415654726
• Artikelnr.: 36623625

Autorenporträt

Christopher Ives holds a PhD in history from the Ohio State University, and is a veteran of the US Special Forces, with over 20 years' service. He now works as a security analyst.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Crossbows to Carbines 2. Combatants and Continuities 3. Contexts
Doctrines
and Discontinuities 4. Counterinsurgency in Vietnam: Competing Discourses 5. Choosing the Wrong Trails 6. Threatened Hamlets and Bad Advice 7. Operational Innovation
Institutional Failure