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SOG : The Secret Wars of America's Commandos in Vietnam. New York, New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 9780684811055. OCLC 777435955. Plaster, John L. (2000). SOG: A Photo History of the Secret Wars. Boulder, Colorado: Paladin Press. ISBN 1-58160-597-8. OCLC 44584774. Prados, John (1998). The Blood Road: The Ho Chi Minh Trail and the Vietnam War ...
Original unissued patch. The Phoenix Program (Vietnamese: Chiến dịch Phụng Hoàng) was designed and initially coordinated by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) during the Vietnam War, involving the American, South Vietnamese militaries, and a small amount of special forces operatives from the Australian Army Training Team Vietnam.
Date duration Operation name Unit(s) – description Location VC–PAVN KIAs Allied KIAs 1965–72: Operation Footboy [1]: MACVSOG covert operations in North Vietnam and North Vietnamese waters for the purpose of collecting intelligence, conducting psychological warfare operations, and other activities to create dissension among the populace, and for diversion of North Vietnamese resources
MACV-SOG forces wore nondescript uniforms, but this was their unofficial insignia. The Sacred Sword of the Patriots League (SSPL) (Mặt trận gươm thiêng ái quốc) was a sustained black operation that originated in the Central Intelligence Agency and was carried out by the Military Assistance Command, Vietnam – Studies and Observations Group (MACV-SOG) during the Vietnam War.
7th Marines security operation in the "rocket belt" around Da Nang, Quảng Nam Province: 67 – 72: Operation Dump Truck [1] Use of anti-personnel mines as part of Operation Igloo White: 67 – 72: Operation Phoenix [2] CIA-organized campaign against Vietcong cadres: across South Vietnam: Jan: Operation Garden City [1] [3] 1st Brigade, 9th ...
A Hatchet Force or Hatchet Team was a special operations team of American and South Vietnamese members of MACV-SOG during the Vietnam War, who operated in small covert operations along the Ho Chi Minh trail from 1966. [2] The units specialized in search and destroy missions and in locating missing American servicemen in Laos, Cambodia and North ...
The Secret War Against Hanoi: The Untold Story of Spies, Saboteurs, and Covert Warriors in North Vietnam. Plaster, John L. 1998. SOG: The Secret Wars of America's Commandos in Vietnam. Murphy, Edward F. 1995. Dak To: America's Sky Soldiers in South Vietnam's Central Highlands. Nolan, Keith W. 1996. The Battle for Saigon: Tet 1968. Nolan, Keith ...
United States Army Center of Military History. ISBN 978-1782663218. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain. Cosmas, Graham A. (2007). MACV: The Joint Command in the Years of Withdrawal, 1968-1973 (PDF). Government Printing Office. ISBN 978-0-16-087286-0. Stanton, Shelby (1987). Vietnam Order of Battle ...