Defend and Befriend: The U.S. Marine Corps and Combined Action Platoons in Vietnam

by John Southard and John B. Southard

After relatively successful military interventions in Iraq in 1992 and Yugoslavia in 1998, many American strategists believed that airpower and remote technology were the future of U.S. military action. But America's most recent wars in the Middle East have reinforced the importance of counterinsurgency, with its imperative to "win hearts and minds" on the ground in foreign lands. In both Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S. military has studied and experimented with the combined action platoon (CAP)

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813145260
• ISBN13: 9780813145266
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up