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Book Review: War In The Villages: The U.S. Marine Corps Combined Action Platoons In The Vietnam War, William Thomas Allison
Book Review: War In The Villages: The U.S. Marine Corps Combined Action Platoons In The Vietnam War, William Thomas Allison
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Author: Ted N. Easterling
Reviewed by Dr. William Thomas Allison, professor of history, Georgia Southern University
Published on April 20, 2023. Former Marine and Vietnam War veteran Ted Easterling evaluates the Marine Combined Action Platoons and their effectiveness, calling them an “appropriate counterinsurgency method” whose potential was squandered during the Vietnam War.
Book Review: Clear, Hold, And Destroy: Pacification In Phú Yên And The American War In Vietnam, Samantha A. Taylor
Book Review: Clear, Hold, And Destroy: Pacification In Phú Yên And The American War In Vietnam, Samantha A. Taylor
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Author: Robert J. Thompson III
Reviewed by Dr. Samantha A. Taylor, assistant professor of military and security studies, Air Command and Staff College
Published on April 20, 2023. There is no shortage of books that explore the Vietnam War and why it ended the way it did. This book does not focus on strategy or events but on the middle-level US and South Vietnamese pacification policy in the Phú Yên province and the communist strategy to counter it.