Vietnam Declassified: The CIA and Counterinsurgency, by Thomas L. Ahern Jr., is about the CIA’s role in rural pacification operations in Vietnam, 1954-75. Ahern focuses on the struggle to suppress the Viet Cong and win the loyalty of the peasantry
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New Book Charts the Air War Against Japan
Barrett Tillman’s book offers an impressive 360-degree look at the 1944-45 air offensive.
Book Review: Manstein, Hitler’s Greatest General
David T. Zabecki reviews the book Manstein: Hitler’s Greatest General.
Book Review: The Father of Us All
Stephen Budiansky reviews the book The Father of Us All: War and History, Ancient and Modern, by Victor Davis Hanson
Book Review: Russia Against Napoleon
Rod Paschall reviews Dominic Lieven’s book about Russian resistance to Napoleon’s campaigns, based on Lieven’s research into Russian military archives that were opened to the public in 1991.
Book Review: Valley of Death, Dien Bien Phu and the Vietnam War
David T. Zabecki reviews Ted Morgan’s 2010 book about Dien Bien Phu and the early development of the Vietnam War.
Book Review: To The Threshold of Power
MHQ reviews McGregor Knox’s,To The Threshold of Power, which explores the origins and dynamics of the Fascist and National Socialist dictatorships in 1922 and 1933.
Book Review: Inside the Army of the Potomac: The Civil War Experiences of Captain Francis Adams Donaldson (edited by J. Gregory Acken): CWT
Inside the Army of the Potomac: The Civil War Experience of Captain Francis Adams […]
Cold War at Sea: High Seas Confrontations Between the United States and the Soviet Union (by David F. Winkler) : MH :Book Review
Cold War at Sea: High Seas Confrontations Between the United States and the Soviet […]
Book Review: 1815 / The Waterloo Campaign / Wellington, his German Allies and the Battles of Ligny and Quatre Bras
1815: The Waterloo Campaign: Wellington, his German Allies and the Battles of Ligny and […]