Author: Robert Riles PlogerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Vietnam War, 1961-1975
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
U.S. Army Engineers, 1965-1970
Author: Robert Riles PlogerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Vietnam War, 1961-1975
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Vietnam Studies: U.S. Army Engineers, 1965-1970
Author: United States. Army DepartmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
U. S. Army Engineers 1965-1970
Author: Department of the ArmyPublisher: Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN: 9781508650324
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
A broad summary of engineer activities and contributions during the Vietnam War.
U.S. Army Engineers, 1965-1970
Author: Robert Riles PlogerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Vietnam War, 1961-1975
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
U. S. Army Engineers, 1965-1970
Author: Robert R. PlogerPublisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781517591854
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
"U.S. Army Engineers, 1965-1970" represents a broad summary of engineer activities and contributions during the Vietnam War. The United States Army has met an unusually complex challenge in Southeast Asia. In conjunction with the other services, the Army has fought in support of a national policy of assisting an emerging nation to develop governmental processes of its own choosing, free of outside coercion. In addition to the usual problems of waging armed conflict, the assignment in Southeast Asia has required superimposing the immensely sophisticated tasks of a modern army upon an underdeveloped environment and adapting them to demands covering a wide spectrum. These involved helping to fulfill the basic needs of an agrarian population, dealing with the frustrations of antiguerrilla operations, and conducting conventional campaigns against well-trained and determined regular units. As this assignment nears an end, the U.S. Army must prepare for other challenges that may lie ahead. While cognizant that history never repeats itself exactly and that no army ever profited from trying to meet a new challenge in terms of the old one, the Army nevertheless stands to benefit immensely from a study of its experience, its shortcomings no less than its achievements. Aware that some years must elapse before the official histories will provide a detailed and objective analysis of the experience in Southeast Asia, we have sought a forum whereby some of the more salient aspects of that experience can be made available now. At the request of the Chief of Staff, a representative group of senior officers who served in important posts in Vietnam and who still carry a heavy burden of day-to-day responsibilities has prepared a series of monographs. These studies should be of great value in helping the Army develop future operational concepts while at the same time contributing to the historical record and providing the American public with an interim report on the performance of men and officers who have responded, as others have through our history, to exacting and trying demands. The reader should be reminded that most of the writing was accomplished while the war in Vietnam was at its peak, and the monographs frequently refer to events of the past as if they were taking place in the present.
Vietnam Studies
Author: Robert Riles PlogerPublisher:
ISBN: 9781410223296
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
The United States Army has met an unusually complex challenge in Southeast Asia. In conjunction with the other services, the Army has fought in support of a national policy of assisting an emerging nation to develop governmental processes of its own choosing, free of outside coercion. In addition to the usual problems of waging armed conflict, the assignment in Southeast Asia has required superimposing the immensely sophisticated tasks of a modern army upon an underdeveloped environment and adapting them to demands covering a wide spectrum. These involved helping to fulfill the basic needs of an agrarian population, dealing with the frustrations of antiguerrilla operations, and conducting conventional campaigns against well-trained and determined regular units. As this assignment nears an end, the U.S. Army must prepare for other challenges that may lie ahead. While cognizant that history never repeats itself exactly and that no army ever profited from trying to meet a new challenge in terms of the old one, the Army nevertheless stands to benefit immensely from a study of its experience, its shortcomings no less than its achievements. Aware that some years must elapse before the official histories will provide a detailed and objective analysis of the experience in Southeast Asia, we have sought a forum whereby some of the more salient aspects of that experience can be made available now. At the request of the Chief of Staff, a representative group of senior officers who served in important posts in Vietnam and who still carry a heavy burden of day-to-day responsibilities has prepared a series of monographs. These studies should be of great value in helping the Army develop futureoperational concepts while at the same time contributing to the historical record and providing the American public with an interim report on the performance of men and officers who have responded, as others have through our history, to exacting and trying demands. The reader: should be reminded that most of the writing was accomplished while the war in Vietnam was at its peak, and the monographs frequently refer to events of the past as if they were taking place in the present.
U.S. Army Engineers, 1965-1970
Author: Robert Riles PlogerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Vietnam War, 1961-1975
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
A history of the Los Angeles District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 1898-1965
Author: Anthony F. TurhollowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Engineers at War (Hardcover)
Author: Adrian G. TraasPublisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN: 9780160841866
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
NOTE: NO FURTHER DISCOUNT FOR THIS PRINTED PRODUCT- OVERSTOCK SALE -- Significantly reduced list price Engineers at War describes the role of military engineers, especially the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, in the Vietnam War. It is a story of the engineers' battle against an elusive and determined enemy in one of the harshest underdeveloped regions of the world. Despite these challenges, engineer soldiers successfully carried out their combat and construction missions. The building effort in South Vietnam allowed the United States to deploy and operate a modern 500,000-man force in a far-off region. Although the engineers faced huge construction tasks, they were always ready to support the combat troops. They built ports and depots, carved airfields and airstrips out of jungle and mountain plateaus, repaired roads and bridges, and constructed bases. Because of these efforts, ground combat troops with their supporting engineers were able to fight the enemy from well-established bases. Although most of the construction was temporary, more durable facilities, such as airfields, port and depot complexes, headquarters buildings, communications facilities, and an improved highway system, were intended to serve as economic assets for South Vietnam. This volume covers how the engineers grew from a few advisory detachments to a force of more than 10 percent of the Army troops serving in South Vietnam. The 35th Engineer Group began arriving in large numbers in June 1965 to begin transforming Cam Ranh Bay into a major port, airfield, and depot complex. Within a few years, the Army engineers had expanded to a command, two brigades, six groups, twenty-eight construction and combat battalions, and many smaller units. Other products produced by the U.S. Army, Center of Military History can be found here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/agency/1061
U.S. Army Engineers, 1965-1970
Author: Robert Riles PlogerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Vietnam War, 1961-1975
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description