The U.S. Marine Corps Combined Action Program (CAP) just might have been a viable alternative to MACV’s ‘big battalions’ strategy.
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Betrayal at Ebenezer Creek
Trapped between charging Rebels and a deadly flooded creek, thousands of fugitive slaves watched in horror as the Union army abandoned them. Then came catastrophe–and excuses.
Tet Offensive: Inside MACV Headquarters
As General William Westmoreland’s chief of staff at the time of the 1968 Tet Offensive, Maj. Gen. Walter ‘Dutch’ Kerwin had a key seat with the military inner circle during one of the most critical events of the war.
The Alamo: 13 Days of Glory
Mysteries, myths and Texas-size legends surround the fortified Spanish mission that became a shrine after a few good men valiantly defended it to the death 160 years ago.
Book Review: April 1865: The Month That Saved America (by Jay Winik): CWT
April 1865: The Month That Saved America, by Jay Winik, HarperCollins, New York, 520 […]
Book Review: Doughboy’s Diary (by Chester Baker) : MH
Doughboy’s Diary, by Chester Baker, Burd Street Press, Shippensburg, Pa., 1998, $24.95. World War […]
Book Review: Pacification: The American Struggle for Vietnam’s Hearts and Minds (Richard A. Hunt) : VN
Winning the ‘hearts and minds’ of the South Vietnamese people was supposedly the goal […]
Book Review: Ambrose Bierce: Alone in Bad Company (Roy Morris, Jr.) : WW
Ambrose Bierce: Alone in Bad Company, by Roy Morris, Jr., Crown Publishers, New York, […]
Book Review: Covered Wagon Women: Diaries & Letters from the Western Trails, 1850 (edited by Kenneth L. Holmes) : WW
Covered Wagon Women: Diaries & Letters from the Western Trails, 1850edited by Kenneth L. […]
Book Review: Hitler’s Second Army: The Waffen SS, by Edmund Blandford : WW2
Hitler’s Second Army: The Waffen SS, by Edmund L. Blandford, Motorbooks, Osceola, Wis., […]