Defend and Befriend: The U.S. Marine Corps and Combined Action Platoons in Vietnam by Southard, John

Defend and Befriend: The U.S. Marine Corps and Combined Action Platoons in Vietnam (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780813145266)

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Defend and Befriend: The U.S. Marine Corps and Combined Action Platoons in Vietnam by Southard, John

Defend and Befriend: The U.S. Marine Corps and Combined Action Platoons in Vietnam

$40.00
Defend and Befriend: The U.S. Marine Corps and Combined Action Platoons in Vietnam by Southard, John

Defend and Befriend: The U.S. Marine Corps and Combined Action Platoons in Vietnam

$40.00
Format: Hardcover
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After relatively successful military interventions in Iraq in 1992 and Yugoslavia in 1998, many American strategists believed that airpower and remote technology were the future of U.S. military action. But America's most recent wars in the Middle East have reinforced the importance of counterinsurgency, with its imperative to "win hearts and minds" on the ground in foreign lands. In both Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S. military has studied and experimented with the combined action platoon (CAP)

Author: John Southard
ISBN-10: 0813145260
ISBN-13: 9780813145266
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Language: English
Published: 07/08/2014
Pages: 232
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.20w x 0.90d
By John Southard
By John Southard
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John Southard is a visiting lecturer in the Department of History at Georgia State University. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

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