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Battle For Skyline Ridge
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Author : James E. Parker
language : en
Publisher: Casemate
Release Date : 2019-08-19
Battle For Skyline Ridge written by James E. Parker and has been published by Casemate this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-19 with History categories.
The first complete account of the secret battle of Skyline Ridge, 1972, when a ragtag Laos-Thai army supported by the CIA threw back a vast NVA army.
Battle For Skyline Ridge
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Author : James E. Parker
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
Battle For Skyline Ridge written by James E. Parker and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Laos categories.
Battle For Skyline Ridge
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Author : James E. Parker
language : en
Publisher: Open Road Media
Release Date : 2019-09-24
Battle For Skyline Ridge written by James E. Parker and has been published by Open Road Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-24 with History categories.
“An incredibly powerful account of a little-known chapter in the Vietnam War saga” written by a CIA veteran who fought in the Secret War (Booklist, starred review). In the 1960s and ’70s, the Laotian Civil War became a covert theater for the conflict in Vietnam, with the US paramilitary backing the Royal Lao government in what came to be known among the CIA as the Secret War. In late 1971, the North Vietnamese Army launched Campaign Z, invading northern Laos on a mission to defeat the Royal Lao Army. General Giap had specifically ordered the NVA troops to kill the CIA army and occupy its field headquarters in the Long Tieng valley. The NVA faced the small rag-tag army of Vang Pao, mostly Thai irregulars recruited to fight for the CIA. But thousands more were quickly recruited, trained, and rushed into position in Laos to defend against the impending NVA invasion. Despite overwhelming odds in the NVA’s favor, the battle raged for more than one hundred days—the longest battle in the Vietnam War. In the end, it all came down to Skyline Ridge. Whoever won Skyline, won Laos. Historian James E. Parker Jr. served as a CIA paramilitary officer in Laos. In this authoritative and personal account, Parker draws from his own firsthand experience as well as extensive research into CIA files and North Vietnamese after-action reports in order to tell the full story of the battle of Skyline Ridge.
Military Aspects Of The Vietnam Conflict
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Author : Walter L. Hixson
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2000
Military Aspects Of The Vietnam Conflict written by Walter L. Hixson and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with History categories.
The Vietnam War was, in the words of a preeminent scholar of the conflict (George C. Herring), "America's longest war." The Indochina conflict spanned the first generation of the larger Cold War and lasts to this day in American memory and cultural representation. Although the war remains a sensitive subject for many, a consensus exists that would echo the words of former Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara in his memoir, In Retrospect, "We were wrong, we were terribly wrong." The six volumes in this series pull together the best article literature on the History of American Involvement in Vietnam. The scholars writing in the first volume explore the roots of U.S. intervention, which followed in the wake of France's failed effort (supported and financed in Washington) to assert imperial control over Indochina. Volume II analyzed military aspects of the Vietnam War's history Volume V focuses on the lessons and legacies of the conflict, the source of a particularly sharp debate during the first administration of President Ronald W. Reagan. The final volume in the series analyzes the Vietnam War's extensive afterlife - in memory, film, literature, and popular discourse. Available individually by volume. Volume 1. The Origins of Intervention (0-8153-3531-8) Volume 2. Military Strategy and Escalation (0-8153-3532-6) Volume 3. Executive- Legislative Relations, Tracing the Impact of the War on U.S. Governmental Structures and Policies (0-8153-3533-4) Volume 4. The Diplomacy of War (0-8153-3534-2) Volume 5. The Anti-War Movement (0-8153-3535-0) Volume 6. Representation, Memories, and Legacies (0-8153-3536-9)
A Great Place To Have A War
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Author : Joshua Kurlantzick
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2017-01-24
A Great Place To Have A War written by Joshua Kurlantzick and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-24 with History categories.
The untold story of how America’s secret war in Laos in the 1960s transformed the CIA from a loose collection of spies into a military operation and a key player in American foreign policy. January, 1961: Laos, a tiny nation few Americans have heard of, is at risk of falling to communism and triggering a domino effect throughout Southeast Asia. This is what President Eisenhower believed when he approved the CIA’s Operation Momentum, creating an army of ethnic Hmong to fight communist forces there. Largely hidden from the American public—and most of Congress—Momentum became the largest CIA paramilitary operation in the history of the United States. The brutal war lasted more than a decade, left the ground littered with thousands of unexploded bombs, and changed the nature of the CIA forever. With “revelatory reporting” and “lucid prose” (The Economist), Kurlantzick provides the definitive account of the Laos war, focusing on the four key people who led the operation: the CIA operative whose idea it was, the Hmong general who led the proxy army in the field, the paramilitary specialist who trained the Hmong forces, and the State Department careerist who took control over the war as it grew. Using recently declassified records and extensive interviews, Kurlantzick shows for the first time how the CIA’s clandestine adventures in one small, Southeast Asian country became the template for how the United States has conducted war ever since—all the way to today’s war on terrorism.
Codename Mule
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Author : James E. Parker
language : en
Publisher: Naval Inst Press
Release Date : 1995
Codename Mule written by James E. Parker and has been published by Naval Inst Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with History categories.
At the same time the Vietnam War was being broadcast into the living rooms of Americans across the country the CIA was conducting a large-scale secret war in northeastern Laos that few heard about. Agency case officer Jim Parker's five years of combat and immersion in Southeast Asian culture had a lasting influence on him and his family. His dramatic, provocative reminiscence of those years is the first account by a participant to portray America's involvement in Laos and the people who served there.
A Great Place To Have A War
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Author : Joshua Kurlantzick
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2017-01-24
A Great Place To Have A War written by Joshua Kurlantzick and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-24 with History categories.
1960. President Eisenhower was focused on Laos, a tiny Southeast Asian nation. Washington feared the country would fall to communism, triggering a domino effect in the rest of Southeast Asia. In January 1961, Eisenhower approved the CIA's Operation Momentum, a plan to create a proxy army of ethnic Hmong to fight communist forces in Laos. Kurlantzick shows how the brutal war lasted nearly two decades, killed one-tenth of Laos's total population, and changed the nature of the CIA forever.
Covert Ops
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Author : James E. Parker
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan
Release Date : 1997-11-15
Covert Ops written by James E. Parker and has been published by Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-11-15 with History categories.
At the same time the Vietnam War was being broadcast into the living rooms of Americans across the country the CIA was conducting a large-scale secret war in northeastern Laos that few heard about. Agency case officer Jim Parker's five years of combat and immersion in Southeast Asian culture had a lasting influence on him and his family. His dramatic, provocative reminiscence of those years is the first account by a participant to portray America's involvement in Laos.
The Vietnam War Its Ownself
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Author : James E. Parker (Jr.)
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2015-03-12
The Vietnam War Its Ownself written by James E. Parker (Jr.) and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-12 with Vietnam War, 1961-1975 categories.
Three million Americans served in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. This is the amazing story of one man who came early and stayed late. Jim Parker had 5 years on the battlefield, serving initially as a 22 year old 2nd Lt platoon leader with the 1st Division that gyroed over from Fort Riley. His battalion was the first to encounter the Cu Chi tunnels and months later led the 1st Division in the successful Minh Thanh counter-ambush. Wounded and honored for bravery, Parker returned to what appeared to be an ungrateful nation, married, returned to UNC/Chapel Hill and was recruited as a CIA para-military operative in August 1970. After a year of clandestine intel and para-military training, he was posted to Laos where he led Hmong guerrillas against invading North Vietnamese. After the Lao cease fire, he was transferred to the delta of Vietnam to work as a spy and to liaise with South Vietnam Army commanders there. He was the last man out of Vietnam, leaving two days after the American embassy was evacuated. He preludes his story with a history of South Vietnam and events that led to the US military involvement. He pulls no punches in pointing out US policy maker mistakes in laying out the battlefield and developing strategy. In his own sometimes easy gaited southern story-telling style, he salutes brave soldiers who tried to stop the spread of communism in Southeast Asia and laments the death of so many gallant Asian allies who died fighting at his side, others who stayed behind at the end. It is a story full of adventure, history and, juxtaposed to the catastrophic horror of war, great humor. Readers will meet amazing men and women and share their concern for one another as they fought against a fanatical communist enemy. The book has excerpts from Parker's previously published Last Man Out, Codename Mule and the Battle for Skyline Ridge, with new transitional stories and additional details. Good Entertainment. Insightful History. Memorable reading.
United States Army In Wwii The Pacific Okinawa The Last Battle
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Author : Roy E. Appleman
language : en
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Release Date : 2014-08-15
United States Army In Wwii The Pacific Okinawa The Last Battle written by Roy E. Appleman and has been published by Pickle Partners Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-15 with History categories.
[Includes 2 tables, 3 charts, 21 maps and 88 illustrations] On 3 October 1944 American forces in the Pacific Ocean Areas received a directive to seize positions in the Ryukyu Islands (Nansei Shoto). Okinawa is the most important island of the Ryukyu Group, the threshold of the four main islands of Japan. The decision to invade the Ryukyus signalized the readiness of the United States to penetrate the inner ring of Japanese defenses. For the enemy, failure on Okinawa meant that he must prepare to resist an early invasion of the homeland or surrender. The present volume [Of the United States Army in WWII series] concerns one of the most bitterly fought battles of the Pacific war, in which the Army, the Marine Corps, and the Navy all played a vital part. In order to make the Army’s role and the campaign as a whole as intelligible as possible the historians have treated in detail the operations of the Marine Corps units attached to Tenth Army, and have also sketched the contribution of the Navy both in preliminary operations against Okinawa and in the campaign itself. Another characteristic of this as of other volumes on Pacific campaigns is that tactical action is treated on levels lower than those usually presented in the history of operations in the European theaters. The physical limitations of the terrain fought over in the Pacific restricted the number and size of the units which could be employed and brought into sharp focus the operations of regiments, battalions, and smaller units. A wealth of verified material on such operations is available for all theaters, but it is only that of the Pacific which can be used extensively, since in other theaters the actions of smaller units are lost in the broad sweep of great distances and large forces. The description of small-unit action has the merit of giving the nonprofessional reader a fuller record of the nature of the battlefield in modern war, and the professional reader a better insight into troop leading.
