Training the Bodes: Australian Army Advisers Training Cambodian Infantry Battalions- A PostScript to the Vietnam War

by Terry Smith and Terry Smith

By the end of 1971, the hastily raised, poorly trained, and woefully led Cambodian army had suffered a string of defeats and heavy casualties inflicted by North Vietnamese army and Viet Cong units. With many of its best infantry battalions and much of its armor, transport and equipment destroyed, only three of its 15 brigade groups were militarily effective. In South Vietnam, America and its allies were in the process of withdrawing and handing back...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1921941014
• ISBN13: 9781921941016
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: Big Sky Publishing
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"