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Photo of Crewmen on board the Monitor, a "battleship" of the U. S. Navy's River Assault Force, fires 40 mm shells toward enemy positions in a jungle during recent operations in the Mekong Delta. The concept of riverine operations dates back to the U. S. Civil War and was used to divide the South in that conflict. In Vietnam, the Monitor is part of a flotilla which provides support to U. S. ground combat troops.

All You Need to Know About Riverine Operations in Vietnam

by David T. Zabecki9/11/20239/11/2023

Riverine operations were central to the Vietnam War. Here’s why.

Illustrtion of a Monitor M-92-1 with labels.

The Technology Behind The Navy’s River Monitors In Vietnam

by Carl O. Schuster8/14/20239/8/2023

CWT Book Review: Naval Books

by Jon Guttman10/25/2019

Battle with No Name

by Vincent P. O’Hara with Enrico Cernuschi9/30/2019

Eyes of the Imperial Fleet

by Jon Guttman9/19/2019

Audacious Cruise of the Emden

by John M. Taylor5/21/20195/21/2019

USS Monitor photograph from Library of Congress

War List: Self-Inflicted Disasters at Sea

by Marc De Santis12/7/20184/26/2022

The Upshur did yeoman service carrying thousands of GIs to Vietnam

by Howard E. Bartholf12/3/2018

Military History Book Reviews: John Rodgers, Charles Stewart, and Stephen Decatur

by Glenn Barnett11/15/2018

Dreadnought revolutionized naval warfare

by Jonathan W. Jordan11/15/2018