US Special Forces and counterinsurgency in Vietnam : military innovation and institutional failure, 1961-1963 /
Ives, Christopher K.
London ; New York : Routledge,
2007.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [163]-172) and index.
Crossbows to carbines -- Combatants and continuities -- Contexts, doctrines, and discontinuities -- Counterinsurgency in Vietnam -- Choosing the wrong trails -- Threatened hamlets and bad advice -- Operational innovation, institutional failure.
United States. Army. Special Forces
Vietnam War, 1961-1975
Counterinsurgency
Vietnam War, 1961-1975
Strategy