US Special Forces and Counterinsurgency in Vietnam: Military Innovation and Institutional Failure, 1961-63

by Christopher K. Ives

Book Overview

This volume examines US Army Special Forces efforts to mobilize and train indigenous minorities in Vietnam.

Christopher K. Ives shows how before the Second Indochina War, the Republic of Vietnam had begun to falter under the burden of an increasingly successful insurgency. The dominant American military culture could not conform to President Kennedy's guidance to wage 'small wars', while President Diem's provincial and military structures...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415400759
• ISBN13: 9780415400756
• Release Date: December 2006
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.2"