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Westmoreland’S War: Reassessing American Strategy In Vietnam, Gregory A. Daddis Jan 2014

Westmoreland’S War: Reassessing American Strategy In Vietnam, Gregory A. Daddis

History Faculty Books and Book Chapters

An original and major reinterpretation of American strategy during the Vietnam War which totally reconsiders the generalship of William Westmoreland and offers a more balanced picture of the US Army in Vietnam. The book's thesis that US strategy was more than just 'attrition' confronts decades' worth of historical narratives which argue we lost in Vietnam due to bad leadership and an incorrect strategy


American Military Strategy In The Vietnam War, 1965– 1973, Gregory A. Daddis Jan 2014

American Military Strategy In The Vietnam War, 1965– 1973, Gregory A. Daddis

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For nearly a decade, American combat soldiers fought in South Vietnam to help sustain an independent, noncommunist nation in Southeast Asia. After U.S. troops departed in 1973, the collapse of South Vietnam in 1975 prompted a lasting search to explain the United States’ first lost war. Historians of the conflict and participants alike have since critiqued the ways in which civilian policymakers and uniformed leaders applied—some argued misapplied—military power that led to such an undesirable political outcome. While some claimed U.S. politicians failed to commit their nation’s full military might to a limited war, others contended that most officers fundamentally …


Review Of Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War In Vietnam, Gregory A. Daddis Jul 2013

Review Of Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War In Vietnam, Gregory A. Daddis

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A review of Nick Turse's Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam.


On Lewis Sorley's Westmoreland: The General Who Lost Vietnam, Gregory A. Daddis Oct 2011

On Lewis Sorley's Westmoreland: The General Who Lost Vietnam, Gregory A. Daddis

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A review of Westmoreland: The General Who Lost Vietnam, by Lewis Sorley.


No Sure Victory: Measuring U.S. Army Effectiveness And Progress In The Vietnam War, Gregory A. Daddis Jun 2011

No Sure Victory: Measuring U.S. Army Effectiveness And Progress In The Vietnam War, Gregory A. Daddis

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Conventional wisdom holds that the US Army in Vietnam, thrust into an unconventional war where occupying terrain was a meaningless measure of success, depended on body counts as its sole measure of military progress. In No Sure Victory, Army officer and historian Gregory Daddis looks far deeper into the Army's techniques for measuring military success and presents a much more complicated-and disturbing-account of the American misadventure in Indochina.


Review Of A Question Of Command: Counterinsurgency From The Civil War To Iraq, Gregory A. Daddis Apr 2011

Review Of A Question Of Command: Counterinsurgency From The Civil War To Iraq, Gregory A. Daddis

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A review of A Question of Command: Counterinsurgency from the Civil War to Iraq, by Mark Moyar.


Emigre Anti-Imperialists And America's Philippines, 1898-1899, Alex Schmidt May 2010

Emigre Anti-Imperialists And America's Philippines, 1898-1899, Alex Schmidt

Renée Crown University Honors Thesis Projects - All

This thesis considers similarities between key members of the American Anti-Imperialist League who, born in the Old World, emigrated to the United States and became luminaries in their adopted country.

The American Anti-Imperialist League formed in 1898 to oppose America’s annexation of the Philippines after the Spanish-American War. Anti-war activists had not prevented the conflict itself, but members of the new League hoped to effect a real protest against the United States taking far-flung Pacific colonies.

The League drew support from a vast array of Americans. With diverse branches in several major American cities, its members included writers, businessmen, philosophers, …


An Individual Approach To Economics: Robert Heilbroner’S Cultural And Historical Perspective Applied To Modern Economic Conditions, Nida Javaid May 2009

An Individual Approach To Economics: Robert Heilbroner’S Cultural And Historical Perspective Applied To Modern Economic Conditions, Nida Javaid

Renée Crown University Honors Thesis Projects - All

This paper discusses historical economist, Robert Heilbroner’s approach to the field of economics and how his publications provide valuable insight on today’s crisis. Although the paper focuses heavily on explaining the development of his concept of vision as applied to studying economic behavior and the application of such a vision to his writings and work regarding capitalism and future predictions, it also discusses his propensity for Keynesian economics. Primary and secondary sources were used to complete this thesis project, including interviews with colleagues and researching publications by Heilbroner. The paper concludes that many of his predictions for the transformation of …


History Firsthand: An American Gi And World War Ii, Benjamin Skomsky May 2009

History Firsthand: An American Gi And World War Ii, Benjamin Skomsky

Renée Crown University Honors Thesis Projects - All

Pvt. George Skomsky (1925-), U.S. Army, 133rd AAA Gun Battalion, the son of Ukrainian immigrants, grew up and came of age during the defining moments of the 20th century: the Great Depression and World War II, respectively. The following examines his experiences in the context of these events, through his letters written home during World War II, recollections and reflections.


Review Of The Battle Of An Loc, Gregory A. Daddis Apr 2006

Review Of The Battle Of An Loc, Gregory A. Daddis

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A review of The Battle of An Loc, by James H. Willbanks.


Armageddon’S Lost Lessons: Combined Arms Operations In Allenby’S Palestine Campaign, Gregory A. Daddis Jan 2005

Armageddon’S Lost Lessons: Combined Arms Operations In Allenby’S Palestine Campaign, Gregory A. Daddis

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In September 1918, the EEF concluded its campaign in Palestine by routing the Turkish forces at the battle of Megiddo. Under command of British general Allenby, the EEF successfully executed one of the most decisive engagements in any theater of World War I. Ably employing and synchronizing infantry, cavalry, and air forces, Allenby provided future military professionals and historians with a shining illustration of the efficacy of combined arms operations. In terms of surprise, concentration, and operational balance of forces, the culmination of the Palestine campaign was a foreshadowing of the German blitzkrieg used in World War II.

Unfortunately, the …