Going beyond Fragging - Wiki, one might look at:
The Hard Truth About Fragging, by Peter Brush (Vietnam Point of View, July 28, 2010):
More recently (January 1, 2011), Fragging: Why U.S....
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Going beyond Fragging - Wiki, one might look at:
The Hard Truth About Fragging, by Peter Brush (Vietnam Point of View, July 28, 2010):
More recently (January 1, 2011), Fragging: Why U.S....
Moreover, so as to immediately break the ten-book limit, here are four oral histories (two general, and two more specialized); all presenting a more generalized set of personal experiences than the...
The Vietnam Literature Cannon - JMM limited edition:
http://council.smallwarsjournal.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=1100&d=1274888764
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Usually, for me, Vietnam sources = stuff re: the US...
Large collections (many online links) in two areas that seem to fit your subject matter request:
Vietnam War Bibliography: Theories of Limited War and Counterinsurgency
Vietnam War...
on the "village wars": Bing West, The Village and Jeffrey Race, War Comes to Long An: Revolutionary Conflict in a Vietnamese Province.
I'd echo Steve re: take all with a grain of salt - and check...
somewhat akin to the 1000 lawyers in chains sinking to the ocean floor. :)
Palmer's book is, however, written from a high level, starting at an O-5 & O-6 level in the early 1950's when he was at...
Canard = An unfounded or false, deliberately misleading fabrication, a false report, rumour or hoax.
What specific language in Westmoreland's 1983 piece is a canard ?
What variant of the...
of Vietnam (about a decade after the fact) is found in his forward to Infantry Magazine (Garland), A Distant Challenge:
Leaving aside the rhetoric, GEN Westmoreland came to see Southeast Asia...
An Assessment (and short history) of the RD/Pacification Program, 5 Jun 1967, is here.
The GVN also published its own reports on RD/Pacification. A large collection is found here (along with some...
Among the many papers at CSI, Harold Ford's "Why CIA Analysts Were So Doubtful About Vietnam" is a must read - no doubt, it will generate some opinions contrary to his.
His background on things...
at Texas Tech (declass. 19 May 1983) - 9 pages - Shadow Supply System.
And, another piece from another journalist in 1971.
NIE 53/14.3-73 Estimate of Vietnam Short-Term Prospects, October,...
Lots of scanned documents (unclassified) are out there.
E.g., MACV Command History 1972-1973, whose Table of Contents is here. Brief discussion of "shadow supply system" starts at A-41, p.18 of...
for those interested in Vietnam. The only "but" is that the DL is over 130 MB - so broadband is needed. My plan is to burn a CD here and take it home where I am limited to dial-up. Will be...