War in the villages: the U.S. Marine Corps combined action platoons in the Vietnam War
Ted N. Easterling
- Resource Type:
- Book (Print/Paper)
- Publication:
- Denton, Texas : University of North Texas Press, [2021]
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- Summary:
- "Book describes and analyzes the Combined Action Platoons used by the U.S. Marine Corps from about 1965 to 1970 in the Vietnam War. These platoons contained U.S. Marines and Vietnamese popular forces and were embedded in smaller villages in South Vietnam in an effort to pacify the citizens and prevent the North Vietnamese from infiltrating the villages. Book analyzes their effectiveness as counterinsurgency forces"-- [Provided by publisher]
- Table of Contents:
- Crisis and Response
- An Enclave Strategy and Joint Action Platoons in I Corps
- The Early CAPs, Problems, and a Continuing Fight Over Strategy
- Evaluation of Early CAP Performance
- Combined Action Platoon Pacification and the Phong Bac Experiment
- The Combined Action Platoons Become a Separate Command
- CAP Performance as a Counterinsurgency Concept
- TET and a Changing Role for the Combined Action Platoons
- An Evaluation of the CAP Program
- Conclusion.
- Author/Creator:
- Easterling, Ted N., 1946- , author
- Languages:
- English
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- Item content: English
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- General Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 242 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps ; 24 cm.
- Physical Characteristics:
- monochrome; map; illustration
- Call Numbers:
- DS558.4 .E37 2021
- ISBNs:
- 9781574418262 (cloth)
1574418262
9781574418347 (ebook) [Invalid] - Library of Congress Control Numbers:
- 2020051339
- OCLC Numbers:
- 1221014830