Viet Cong infiltrators had a host of key objectives scattered throughout the Saigon Circle […]
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Drinking Your Own Bathwater: Tet Intelligence Failures
American inability to connect the dots is well known, but what about the intelligence […]
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Shadow and Stinger
Shadow and Stinger by William P. Head. Texas A&M University Press, College Station, 2007, […]
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On a vintage 1890 pile-driving barge
The first thing I noticed when I got off the airplane at Tan Son […]
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Improvised Weapons in the Mekong Delta
Fighting in the Mekong Delta presented myriad difficulties. The entire region is covered with […]
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August 2018 Feedback
Photo IDs The photo on the cover of the August issue was taken in […]
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Holding the Line in Malaya
British administrators put down the 1948–60 communist uprising using a successful and surprising mix of counterinsurgency tactics
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Saving Sergeant York
A century after a pacifist became an American war hero, another soldier shot down doubts about his story
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How “Catkillers” in a Bullet-Riddled Cessna Turned Back an NVA Attack on a Base Near the DMZ
Flying low and slow, pilots in a Cessna O-1 Bird Dog hunted down the enemy at Con Thien, a Marine outpost called the “Hill of Angels.”
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The Powerful Guns of the Grunts
Infantry troops in Vietnam carried lethal new weapons into combat