Dirty Little Secrets of the Vietnam War Military Information You're Not Supposed to Know,9780312252823

Dirty Little Secrets of the Vietnam War Military Information You're Not Supposed to Know

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ISBN13: 9780312252823
ISBN10: 031225282X
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Pub. Date: 2000-05-05
Publisher(s): Griffin
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Summary

Dirty Little Secrets of the Vietnam War allows us to see what really happened to American forces in Southeast Asia, separating popular myth from explosive reality in a clear, concise manner. Containing more than two hundred examinations of different aspects of the war, the book questions why the American military ignored the lessons taught by previous encounters with insurgency forces; probes the use of group think and mind control by the North Vietnamese; and explores the role technology played in shaping the way the war was fought. Of course, the book also reveals the "dirty little secrets," the truth behind such aspects of the conflict as the rise of the Montagnard mercenaries-the most feared group of soldiers participating in the secret war in Laos-and the details of the hidden struggle for the Ho Chi Minh Trail. With its unique and perceptive examination of the conflict, Dirty Little Secrets of the Vietnam War offers a critical addition to the library of Vietnam War history.

Author Biography

James F. Dunnigan and Albert A. Nofi are the authors of hundreds of books and articles on military affairs. Dunnigan has been a consultant to the State Department, the CIA, and the Army War College. Nofi is the editor of the series The Great Campaigns of Military History.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction xv
A Word on Usage xvii
Abbreviations xix
The Enduring Myths of the Vietnam War
1(24)
America Suffered a Military Defeat
1(1)
The American Soldier Was ``Different'' in Vietnam
2(6)
Vietnam Was a War of Communist Aggression
8(2)
It Was Just Another War
10(4)
The Vietnam War Was Not as Intense as World War II
14(4)
Who Served and Who Got Hurt?
18(3)
Those Traumatized Vietnam Vets
21(4)
The Forty-Year War
25(34)
What Is Vietnam?
25(2)
Where the French Came In
27(1)
Uncle Ho, General Giap, the Red Menace, and Power Politics
28(7)
The French Campaigns
35(3)
The Viet Minh--Japanese Alliance
38(1)
The Viet Minh's Foreign Legion
38(1)
Lessons Forgotten: The American Military and Insurgency
39(5)
Communist Insurgencies, 1945--65
44(1)
The Official American Army Campaigns in Vietnam, and the Unofficial Ones at Home
44(10)
A Strategy of Uncertainty
54(5)
In the Bush (Ground Combat)
59(47)
First Impressions
59(1)
The Nature of Combat
60(1)
Air Assault
61(2)
Trashing the Battlefield
63(1)
Allied Forces in Vietnam
64(1)
A Plague of Radios and the ``Flying CP''
65(2)
Infantry Weapons
67(3)
The Big Guns
70(1)
Armor in Vietnam
71(4)
Body Counts
75(1)
Thunder Run
76(1)
FNGs, Getting Short, and Staying Alive
77(2)
LRRPs and Rangers
79(3)
LRRP Rules
82(3)
Creating ARVN
85(3)
Republic of Vietnam Marine Corps
88(1)
The ARVN Rangers
89(1)
The Popular Forces
90(1)
Marine Combined Action Platoons
90(2)
General Monsoon
92(1)
Ground Radar
92(2)
Plastic on Fire
94(1)
Road Warriors
95(1)
Some Useful Field Expedients
96(2)
Tigers, Elephants, Poisonous Reptiles, and Determined Vermin
98(5)
Tunnels and Tunneling
103(3)
Slicks, Puffs, and Fast Movers (War in the Air)
106(33)
The Largest Bombing Campaign in History
106(1)
U.S. Combat Aircraft Losses in Southeast Asia
107(2)
Helicopters Everywhere
109(3)
Helicopter Operations and Losses
112(2)
Helicopter Sorties Are Different
114(1)
Those Daring Young Men in Their Flying Machines
115(2)
Air Combat
117(5)
Antiaircraft Defense
122(3)
Light Airplanes in Vietnam
125(1)
``Puff the Magic Dragon''
126(1)
The B-52 and Arc Light Missions
126(1)
Principal Combat Aircraft of the Vietnam War
127(5)
RVN Air Force
132(1)
Aces of the Vietnam War
133(1)
Assault Helicopter Units
133(1)
Napalm
134(1)
Agent Orange and ``Operation RANCH HAND''
135(2)
The Kingbee
137(2)
Blue Water, Green Water, Brown Water (The Naval War)
139(15)
Aircraft Carriers in the War
139(7)
The Battleship Returns
146(1)
The Green Water Navy
147(3)
The Brown Water Navy
150(2)
The Coast Guard
152(2)
Base Camp Follies
154(14)
Uncle Sam's Way of War
154(1)
Let's Make a Deal
155(2)
Good Morning, Vietnam
157(2)
``Bloomin' Good Pay''
159(2)
American Women at War
161(2)
The Chaplaincy
163(1)
The Class of '66
164(1)
VD and Vietnam
165(1)
Pacific Idylls
166(2)
War in the Shadows
168(35)
The Special Forces
168(2)
The Secret War in Laos
170(3)
SOG's War Against the Ho Chi Minh Trail
173(4)
Undercover for Uncle Ho
177(1)
SOG Recon Teams
178(1)
The Montagnards
178(6)
The Hmong
184(1)
The Cambodian Connection
185(4)
The North Vietnam Counter-Recon Program
189(2)
Playing on Paranoia
191(3)
Sniff This, Fido
194(1)
The Problem of Moles
194(1)
Flight of the Phoenix
195(1)
Paper Paratroopers
196(1)
Strata
196(1)
The Lifeline from Above
197(1)
The Religious Factor
198(1)
The Ultimate Killing Machine
199(1)
Bright Light
200(1)
Dead Plants and Bitter Rice
201(1)
The Real Rambo
201(2)
Leadership
203(37)
``Follow Me!'' Leadership Problems in Vietnam
203(3)
The Mismanagement of ARVN
206(4)
The ARVN Officer Corps
210(2)
The First ``Hollow Army''
212(2)
``They Also Serve Who Only Stand and Wait''
214(5)
The Communist Advantage
219(2)
Fragging
221(1)
The Medal of Honor and Other Decorations
222(8)
The Drug Problem
230(1)
Looting
231(2)
The My Lai Massacre
233(2)
American War Crimes Trials
235(1)
Some Questionable Weapons of the Vietnam War
235(5)
Numbers and Losses
240(17)
American Casualties
240(6)
Casualties Compared
246(1)
Allied Combat Battalions in Vietnam
246(1)
Eye Injuries in Vietnam
247(1)
Psychoneurotic Casualties
248(2)
Prisoners of the North Vietnamese
250(1)
The Garwood Case
251(1)
Treating the Wounded
252(2)
Blood
254(1)
Hospital Ships
255(2)
The Home Front
257(10)
Getting In and Getty Ready
257(1)
The Media
258(2)
Some Notable Blunders of the Peace Movement
260(1)
Things Are Not Always As They Seem---Nor Are People
261(2)
The Conspiracy of the Moment
263(1)
Kent State
264(2)
Jackson State
266(1)
Peace with Honor
266(1)
The Other Side
267(24)
Born in the North to Die in the South
267(2)
A Day in the Life of Uncle Ho's Nephews
269(2)
Group Think and Mind Control
271(1)
The Other Side's Draft Dodgers
272(1)
Training
273(1)
Bad Medicine
274(1)
The Sappers
275(6)
Electronics
281(1)
The Well-Clad Guerrilla
282(1)
North Vietnam's Allies in the War
283(2)
The Pathet Lao
285(1)
Enemy Atrocities
286(1)
The Declaration of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam
287(4)
Logistics
291(11)
Creating the Infrastructure for War
291(2)
Merchant Shipping
293(1)
Revolutionary Logistics
293(2)
The Ho Chi Minh Trail
295(5)
The Cost of the War
300(2)
The Combat Units
302(27)
The Principal American Ground Combat Units in Vietnam
302(8)
ROK Forces in Vietnam
310(1)
Australia and New Zealand in the War
311(2)
Thai Forces
313(1)
The Philippine Contingent
314(1)
South Vietnamese Army and Marine Units
315(5)
South Vietnamese Corps Areas
320(1)
North Vietnamese and Viet Cong Combat Units
321(8)
The Aftermath
329(16)
The Era of the ``Hollow Army'' and Military Reform
329(3)
The MIA Problem
332(2)
MIA Sightings
334(1)
The Amerasians
335(1)
The Reorganization of the Defense Establishment
336(2)
The Vietnam War Deserters
338(3)
Some Notable Americans Who Served in Vietnam
341(1)
Some Notable Americans Who Didn't Serve in Vietnam
342(1)
The Sino-Vietnamese War
342(3)
Appendix: A Vietnam War Glossary: Acronyms, Code Words, and Slang 345(10)
Recommended Reading 355

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