War in the villages: the U.S. Marine Corps combined action platoons in the Vietnam War
by Ted N. Easterling
- Resource Type:
- E-Book
- 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:
- Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Crisis and Response
- ch. 2 Enclave Strategy and Joint Action Platoons in I Corps
- ch. 3 Early CAPs, Problems, and a Continuing Fight Over Strategy
- ch. 4 Evaluation of Early CAP Performance
- ch. 5 Combined Action Platoon Pacification and the Phong Bac Experiment
- Photo Gallery
- ch. 6 Combined Action Platoons Become a Separate Command
- ch. 7 CAP Performance as a Counterinsurgency Concept
- ch. 8 TET and a Changing Role for the Combined Action Platoons
- ch. 9 Evaluation of the CAP Program.
- Author/Creator:
- Easterling, Ted N., 1946- , author
- Languages:
- English
- Language Notes:
- Item content: English
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- General Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record. - Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Call Numbers:
- DS558.4 .E37 2021eb
- ISBNs:
- 9781574418347 (electronic bk.)
1574418343 (electronic bk.)
9781574418262 [Invalid]
1574418262 [Invalid] - OCLC Numbers:
- 1242107510
- Other Control Numbers:
- EBC6518976 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp17292101