The United States Navy and the Vietnam Conflict: From military assistance to combat, 1959-1965Naval History Division, Department of the Navy, 1977 - Government publications |
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... Assistance to Combat is primarily an operational account . In general terms this book analyzes the use of seapower to advance U.S. strategic interests in Southeast Asia . In addition to describing the Navy's continuing efforts to ...
... Assistance to Combat is primarily an operational account . In general terms this book analyzes the use of seapower to advance U.S. strategic interests in Southeast Asia . In addition to describing the Navy's continuing efforts to ...
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... assistance to the mountain kingdom . Since 1955 the general U.S. aid program had been administered under the U.S. ambassador's direction , with the United States Operations Mission handling economic assistance and the Programs ...
... assistance to the mountain kingdom . Since 1955 the general U.S. aid program had been administered under the U.S. ambassador's direction , with the United States Operations Mission handling economic assistance and the Programs ...
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... Assistance Program ( MAP ) . Of greater significance , U.S. military personnel began supplementing the work of the French training mission , which was seen as woefully inadequate by American observers . By the end of July 1959 , Special ...
... Assistance Program ( MAP ) . Of greater significance , U.S. military personnel began supplementing the work of the French training mission , which was seen as woefully inadequate by American observers . By the end of July 1959 , Special ...
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... assistance in the construction of an all - weather road from Attopeu toward the South Vietnamese border at Kontum . The road improvement plan was supported wholeheartedly by President Diem of South Vietnam , who felt that it was needed ...
... assistance in the construction of an all - weather road from Attopeu toward the South Vietnamese border at Kontum . The road improvement plan was supported wholeheartedly by President Diem of South Vietnam , who felt that it was needed ...
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... assistance was amply supported . An effective Pathet Lao armed force that secured the western flank of North Vietnam , stretched U.S. resources , and diverted Western attention from South Vietnam was an obvious advantage to Hanoi ...
... assistance was amply supported . An effective Pathet Lao armed force that secured the western flank of North Vietnam , stretched U.S. resources , and diverted Western attention from South Vietnam was an obvious advantage to Hanoi ...
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Page 330 - Treaty, the United States is, therefore, prepared, as the President determines, to take all necessary steps, including the use of armed force, to assist any member or protocol state of the Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty requesting assistance in defense of its freedom.
Page 61 - Their missile power will be the shield from behind which they will slowly, but surely, advance— through Sputnik diplomacy, limited brush-fire wars, indirect non-overt aggression, intimidation and subversion, internal revolution, increased prestige or influence, and the vicious blackmail of our allies.
Page 5 - Arthur J. Dommen, Conflict in Laos: The Politics of Neutralization (New York: Praeger, 1971) focuses on the involvement of Laos in the Indochina wars from 1945 to 1969.
Page 539 - York we set about arresting the progress of all vessels we saw, firing off guns to the right and left, to make every ship that was running in heave to, or wait until we had leisure to send a boat on board 'to see,' in our lingo, 'what she was made of.
Page 539 - ... or upon the decks of the shipping. All was noise and bustle. The carters were driving in every direction; and the sailors and labourers upon the wharfs, and on board the vessels, were moving their ponderous burthens from place to place.
Page 61 - We intend to re-examine and reorient our forces of all kinds— our tactics and our institutions here in this community. We intend to intensify our efforts for a struggle in many ways more difficult than war, where disappointment will often accompany us.
Page 61 - Too long we have fixed our eyes on traditional military needs, on armies prepared to cross borders or missiles poised for flight. Now it should be clear that this is no longer enough— that our security may be lost piece by piece, country by country, without the firing of a single missile or the crossing of a single border.
Page 594 - It was a scene never to be forgotten by any one who beheld it. The red glare from the eight burning vessels shone far and wide over the drifting ice of those savage seas ; the crackling of the fire as it made its devouring way through each doomed ship, fell on the still air like upbraiding voices.
Page 539 - Bales of cotton, wool, and merchandize ; barrels of pot-ash, rice, flour, and salt provisions ; hogsheads of sugar, chests of tea, puncheons of rum, and pipes of wine ; boxes, cases, packs and packages of all sizes and denominations, were strewed upon the wharfs and landing-places, or upon the decks of the shipping.