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Dragon Operations
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Author : Thomas Paul Odom
language : en
Publisher: Army Command and General Staff College
Release Date : 1988
Dragon Operations written by Thomas Paul Odom and has been published by Army Command and General Staff College this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with History categories.
For the Belgian Paracommando Regiment, the Congo was a familiar, though often hostile, environment. For most of the officers and sergeants of the regiment, the fields, buildings, and river below were as familiar as the Belgian landscape. But for most of the 340 enlisted men drifting in the sky over the airfield, the Congo was an unknown menace outside their military experience. Most of these paras were young draftees to whom the Congo represented a closed chapter in Belgium's colonial history. Yet even with the experience of its senior leadership, the Belgian Paracommandos faced a severe test on this early spring morning. The young paras and their seasoned leaders were conducting the first international hostage rescue in the post-World War II era. The challenge was enormous, the risks staggering; the Paracommandos were jumping into a perilous den of uncertainty. Stanleyville was at the heart of the Simba Rebellion and the scene of the growing desperation. Faced with a government ground assault, the Simba leaders had taken several thousand non-Congolese hostages to guard against what appeared to be imminent defeat. Keywords: Military operations.
Dragon Operations Hostage Rescues In The Congo 1964 1965
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988
Dragon Operations Hostage Rescues In The Congo 1964 1965 written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with categories.
The Dragon operations in the Congo-Dragon Rouge and Dragon Noir-were the first, and in many ways the most complex, hostage rescue missions of the cold war, Aimed at securing the release of nearly 2,000 European residents taken hostage during the Simba Rebellion in 1964, American aircraft projected a Belgian airborne unit thousands of miles into the heart of Africa. The planning and execution of this mission required the operational cooperation of three nations and their military forces in order to synchronize the arrival of airborne and ground forces to assault a hostile objective. Drawing on newly declassified official American and Belgian sources- as well as on personal interviews with commanders and staff officers who planned and executed the operations the paper analyzes and assesses events in the Congo. This Leavenworth Paper provides a valuable insight into the nature and complexities of multinational contingency operations.
Dragon Operations
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Author : Thomas P Odom
language : en
Publisher: www.Militarybookshop.CompanyUK
Release Date : 2010-12-01
Dragon Operations written by Thomas P Odom and has been published by www.Militarybookshop.CompanyUK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-12-01 with History categories.
In August 1964, thousands of Simba rebels attacked and captured the city of Stanleyville in the newly independent Republic of the Congo and took more than 1,600 European and American residents as hostages, threatening to kill them if any attempt was made to recapture the city. In November of that year, after months of increasingly tense and complex discussions among the governments whose nationals were being held, an airborne assault by Belgian paracommandos dropped by American Air Force planes, combined with a CIA-piloted air strike against the Stanleyville airport, liberated most of the hostages, but only after a Simba-initiated massacre. "Dragon Operations: Hostage Rescues in the Congo, 1964-1965" provides both the political background to these events and a detailed account of the actual operations: Dragon Rouge, the operations in Stanleyville, and Dragon Noir, focused on the city of Paulis, several hundred miles away. The book highlights the difficulties in organizing an international rescue effort with insufficient joint planning and inadequate command and control among the Belgian and American forces, as well as their differing political ideas and goals. The ad hoc nature of the planning was exemplified by an initial American Special Forces plan to air drop its forces east of Stanleyville and float down the river to Stanleyville. This plan was aborted when it was pointed out that the existence of Stanley Falls between the drop zone and the city was an insuperable obstacle. The operation also suffered from the Belgian commander's colonial-era contempt for the numerical strength of the Simbas and American fears of what was in reality a non-existent Communist element in the rebel movement."Dragon Operations" demonstrates that, despite the slapdash nature of their planning and communications aspects, as well as the distance involved, the austere support, the large number of hostages, and a lack of intelligence data, they were remarkably successful in rescuing most of the hostages. Although less than ideal, the operations worked better than expected, given the conditions under which they were conducted. This important study of an almost forgotten episode of the Cold War has much to offer to military strategists and tacticians, political scientists and students of contemporary history alike. Orginally published in 1988: 236 p. maps. ill.
Dragon Operations
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Author : Thomas P Odom
language : en
Publisher: www.Militarybookshop.CompanyUK
Release Date : 2010-12
Dragon Operations written by Thomas P Odom and has been published by www.Militarybookshop.CompanyUK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-12 with History categories.
In August 1964, thousands of Simba rebels attacked and captured the city of Stanleyville in the newly independent Republic of the Congo and took more than 1,600 European and American residents as hostages, threatening to kill them if any attempt was made to recapture the city. In November of that year, after months of increasingly tense and complex discussions among the governments whose nationals were being held, an airborne assault by Belgian paracommandos dropped by American Air Force planes, combined with a CIA-piloted air strike against the Stanleyville airport, liberated most of the hostages, but only after a Simba-initiated massacre. "Dragon Operations: Hostage Rescues in the Congo, 1964-1965" provides both the political background to these events and a detailed account of the actual operations: Dragon Rouge, the operations in Stanleyville, and Dragon Noir, focused on the city of Paulis, several hundred miles away. The book highlights the difficulties in organizing an international rescue effort with insufficient joint planning and inadequate command and control among the Belgian and American forces, as well as their differing political ideas and goals. The ad hoc nature of the planning was exemplified by an initial American Special Forces plan to air drop its forces east of Stanleyville and float down the river to Stanleyville. This plan was aborted when it was pointed out that the existence of Stanley Falls between the drop zone and the city was an insuperable obstacle. The operation also suffered from the Belgian commander's colonial-era contempt for the numerical strength of the Simbas and American fears of what was in reality a non-existent Communist element in the rebel movement. "Dragon Operations" demonstrates that, despite the slapdash nature of their planning and communications aspects, as well as the distance involved, the austere support, the large number of hostages, and a lack of intelligence data, they were remarkably successful in rescuing most of the hostages. Although less than ideal, the operations worked better than expected, given the conditions under which they were conducted. This important study of an almost forgotten episode of the Cold War has much to offer to military strategists and tacticians, political scientists and students of contemporary history alike. Orginally published in 1988: 236 p. maps. ill.
Dragon Operations Group Eighteenth Quarterly Progress Report
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Author : W.B. Salter
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1970
Dragon Operations Group Eighteenth Quarterly Progress Report written by W.B. Salter and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1970 with categories.
Operation Dragon
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Author : Bill Groshelle
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
Operation Dragon written by Bill Groshelle and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Comic books, strips, etc categories.
Lessons Learned In Operation Dragon
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Author : United States. Army. European Theater of Operations. War Department Observers Board
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1945
Lessons Learned In Operation Dragon written by United States. Army. European Theater of Operations. War Department Observers Board and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1945 with Operation Dragoon, 1944 categories.
Dragon Operations Branch Twenty Fifth Quarterly Progress Report
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Author : I.K. Mason
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1972
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Dragon Operations Branch Twenty Eighth Quarterly Progress Report
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Author : I.K. Mason
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1973
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The Dragon S War
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Author : Maochun Yu
language : en
Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
Release Date : 2006
The Dragon S War written by Maochun Yu and has been published by US Naval Institute Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with History categories.
Making full use of significant new sources in Chinese-language materials, U.S. Naval Academy professor Maochun Yu provides Western readers with the first detailed account of military and intelligence operations conducted inside China by foreign powers between 1937 and 1945. He also addresses the profound impact of these operations upon China's nationalism, wartime politics, and overall military campaigns. Arguing that operations by the USSR, the United States, Britain, and France, in particular, challenged the authority and legitimacy of the Chinese nationalist government, he illustrates how the failure of the Nationalist Government under Chiang Kai-shek to control these operations contributed to its demise following World War II. This provocative work unveils like never before the extraordinary intrigue, command and operational manipulations, international espionage, and politics surrounding military and intelligence operations in wartime China among the allies. It covers such topics as foreign military aid programs to China; the Chinese secret police's massive joint intelligence organization with the U.S. Navy; special intelligence initiatives conducted by the British, Free French, and Americans; secret British and American dealings with the Chinese Communists; America's first covert overseas military operation (the Flying Tigers); and Soviet and American military personnel in the China theater. The author points to the remarkable political and military ramifications that these operations had in China, including the inadvertent creation of conditions that allowed the rise of Communist China. With its implications on the world scene today, such an important new perspective of China during its war against Japan will appeal to a general audience as well as to students of World War II and specialists in the military and intelligence communities.
