Buying Time: 1965-1966: U.S. Army Campaigns of the Vietnam War

by Frank Jones, U.S. Department of the Army, United States Army

In January 1965, the principal U.S. ally against communism in Southeast Asia, the Republic of (South) Vietnam, appeared to be headed for collapse. Armed revolutionaries fighting a proxy war on behalf of Communist North Vietnam held the political and military initiative. The insurgents controlled nearly half of South Vietnam's countryside and almost a third of its population. The U.S.-trained South Vietnamese Army was losing soldiers and equipment...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1097415880
• ISBN13: 9781097415885
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 60 Pages
• Weight: 0.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 5.5" x 8.5"