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The Montagnards Of South Vietnam
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Author : Robert L. Mole
language : en
Publisher: Rutland, Vt. : C. E. Tuttle Company
Release Date : 1970
The Montagnards Of South Vietnam written by Robert L. Mole and has been published by Rutland, Vt. : C. E. Tuttle Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1970 with Social Science categories.
The Montagnards Of South Vietnam
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1974
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The Montagnards Of South Vietnam
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: Minority Rights Group Publications
Release Date : 1974-01-01
The Montagnards Of South Vietnam written by and has been published by Minority Rights Group Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974-01-01 with Montagnards (Vietnamese people) categories.
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Montagnards Of South Vietnam
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Author : Interbook, Incorporated
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1974-01-01
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There Is A Man Who Walks
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Author : Dan Conlon
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
There Is A Man Who Walks written by Dan Conlon and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Guerrilla warfare categories.
Repression Of Montagnards
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Author : Sidney Jones
language : en
Publisher: Human Rights Watch
Release Date : 2002
Repression Of Montagnards written by Sidney Jones and has been published by Human Rights Watch this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Civil rights categories.
A Plea for Help
Tiger Men
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Author : Barry Petersen
language : en
Publisher: Orchid Press
Release Date : 1994
Tiger Men written by Barry Petersen and has been published by Orchid Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In 1963 Barry Peterson left Australia for Vietnam to train local tribes to defend their villages against the Vietcong. This is the story of those Truong Son, or "Tiger Men, " who became the most respected and feared native forces in South Vietnam. But it is also the sad story of the defeat and destruction of the Montagnard culture and way of life, as Vietnamese and American leadership ultimately turned its back on its loyal supporters.
Montagnard Tribal Groups Of The Republic Of South Viet Nam
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1964
Montagnard Tribal Groups Of The Republic Of South Viet Nam written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1964 with Anthropology categories.
The Fall Of Saigon
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Author : Charles River Editors
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-09-27
The Fall Of Saigon written by Charles River Editors and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-27 with categories.
*Includes pictures *Includes a bibliography for further reading The Vietnam War could have been called a comedy of errors if the consequences weren't so deadly and tragic. In 1951, while war was raging in Korea, the United States began signing defense pacts with nations in the Pacific, intending to create alliances that would contain the spread of Communism. As the Korean War was winding down, America joined the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, pledging to defend several nations in the region from Communist aggression. One of those nations was South Vietnam. Before the Vietnam War, most Americans would have been hard pressed to locate Vietnam on a map. South Vietnamese President Diem's regime was extremely unpopular, and war broke out between Communist North Vietnam and South Vietnam around the end of the 1950s. Kennedy's administration tried to prop up the South Vietnamese with training and assistance, but the South Vietnamese military was feeble. A month before his death, Kennedy signed a presidential directive withdrawing 1,000 American personnel, and shortly after Kennedy's assassination, new President Lyndon B. Johnson reversed course, instead opting to expand American assistance to South Vietnam. Over the next few years, the American military commitment to South Vietnam grew dramatically, and the war effort became both deeper and more complex. The strategy included parallel efforts to strengthen the economic and political foundations of the South Vietnamese regime, to root out the Viet Cong guerrilla insurgency in the south, combat the more conventional North Vietnamese Army (NVA) near the Demilitarized Zone between north and south, and bomb military and industrial targets in North Vietnam itself. In public, American military officials and members of the Johnson administration stressed their tactical successes and offered rosy predictions; speaking before the National Press Club in November 1967, General Westmoreland claimed, "I have never been more encouraged in the four years that I have been in Vietnam. We are making real progress...I am absolutely certain that whereas in 1965 the enemy was winning, today he is certainly losing." Ripe for the plucking by North Vietnam, the country of South Vietnam found itself in an unenviable position in 1974. American forces rapidly withdrew, leaving only a few advisers and other personnel in place of the large forces deployed in the Southeast Asian theater until recently. President Gerald Ford and his staff, completely outmatched at the negotiations during the American retreat, parleyed from a position of weakness. The North Vietnamese gave essentially no useful concessions since they had no reason to, and they secured an American withdrawal without needing to remove their own advance units from South Vietnamese territory in return. Naturally, these facts reflected themselves in the morale of the two sides. South Vietnamese morale collapsed to catastrophic levels and remained there, though the ARVN (Army of the Republic of Vietnam) forces occasionally managed gallant, even heroic stands. The North Vietnamese, by contrast, felt confident of victory, from the highest to the lowest ranks. A mix of Marxist zeal and barely expressed but very real nationalism strengthened the resolve of the North Vietnamese's commanders and soldiers as well. A haunting fear remained among the North Vietnamese that the Americans would return, but each fresh success with no American response made this concern recede further into the background. As 1975 dawned, the NVA prepared for a final series of campaigns to conquer the territory of South Vietnam, leading to a chain of events that culminated with the fall of Saigon and some of the most infamous footage in 20th century America's history. The Fall of Saigon: The History of the Battle for South Vietnam's Capital and the End of the Vietnam War examines how the war ended.
Window On A War
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Author : Gerald Cannon Hickey
language : en
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
Release Date : 2002
Window On A War written by Gerald Cannon Hickey and has been published by Texas Tech University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
When Gerald Hickey went to Vietnam in 1956 to complete his Ph.D. in anthropology, he didn't realize he would be there for most of the next eighteen years--through the entire Vietnam War. After working with the country folk of the Mekong Delta for several years, in 1963 Hickey was recruited by the Rand Corporation, which was contracted by the U.S. government to study and report on the highland tribes. From the buildup to war, when mountain tribespeople still lived in longhouses and cut and burned brush to clear fields for nice, to near the end of the conflict, when he sailed away from Vietnam on the S.S. Idaho, Gerald Hickey experienced it all. He lived through the horrible Viet Cong night attack on the Nam Dong Special Forces Camp in July 1964, and he survived the full-scale battle at Ban Me Thuot during Tet, 1968. Worst, he witnessed the decline of the mountain people from proud highlanders to refugees from a war none of them wanted and few understood. Hickey became respected by all parties as a fair intermediary between the highlanders, the American mission, and to some extent the Saigon government. His understanding of the montagnards, and his representation of their interests, helped to resolve their conflict with Saigon in 1965 and assured their alliance with U.S. forces through the rest of the war. These are his experiences, told with the calm yet deep emotion of a man who invested a major portion of his life and career in the events of the war and with the people among whom he lived and worked. His is a unique viewpoint and one to which we should attend. "[Hickey's] studies of these independent, brave, and misunderstood people provide the scholarly record; this fine book expresses his devotion and his despair at their inevitable and often cruel assimilation." --Douglas Pike