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Losing Binh Dinh : the failure of pacification and Vietnamization, 1969-1971 / Kevin M. Boylan.

"Focusing on WASHINGTON GREEN, an ambitious but flawed American-led operation, Boylan tests and ultimately challenges the "Lost Victory" argument of recent Revisionist histories of the Vietnam War. Those histories contend that domestic politics robbed the American military of a triump...

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Main Author: Boylan, Kevin M. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2016]
Series:Modern war studies.
Subjects:
United States. > Army. > Airborne Brigade, 173rd > History.
United States. > Army. > Airborne Brigade, 173rd.
Vietnam War (1961-1975)
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 > Campaigns > Vietnam > Bình Định (Province)
Counterinsurgency > Vietnam > Bình Định (Province)
Bình Định (Vietnam : Province) > History.
Counterinsurgency.
Military campaigns.
Vietnam > Bình Định (Province)
History.
Table of Contents:
  • The "pacified" province
  • Fast and thin
  • The balance of forces
  • Washington Green : phase I
  • Overextension
  • The red queen's race
  • Slowdown
  • Aftershocks
  • Conclusion : triumph mistaken.

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