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The order of battle for the Viet Cong concerned a contested American intelligence issue of the Vietnam War. Arising In the mid-1960s, its focus was the count of enemy combatants. Often called the order of battle controversy, the debate came to divide the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and challenge military intelligence.
Operations during the Vietnam War. Listed by starting date: Operation Chopper — January 12, 1962 - U.S- South Vietnamese victory. Operation Sunrise — March 22-April 30, 1962 - Unsuccessful, increased support for the Viet Cong. Operation Quyet Thang 202 — April 27-May 27, 1964 - South Vietnamese victory. Operation 34A – (1964) Operation ...
This is a list of orders of battle, which list the known military units that were located within the field of operations for a battle or campaign. The battles are listed in chronological order by starting date (or planned start date).
Operation Chopper (Vietnam) Operation Clinch Valley. Operation Cochise Green. Operation Colorado. Operation Commando Hunt. Operation Concordia Square. Operation Concordia (Vietnam) Battle of Coral–Balmoral. Operation Coronado.
The battle of Dak To ( Vietnamese: Chiến dịch Đắk Tô - Tân Cảnh) in Vietnam was a series of major engagements of the Vietnam War that took place between 3 and 23 November 1967, [1] in Kon Tum Province, in the Central Highlands of the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam). The action at Đắk Tô was one of a series of People's Army of ...
1969 in the Vietnam War. The inauguration of Richard Nixon in January led to a reevaluation of the U.S. role in the war. U.S. forces peaked at 543,000 in April. U.S. military strategy remained relatively unchanged from the offensive strategy of 1968 until the Battle of Hamburger Hill in May which led to a change a more reactive approach.
Clausewitz defined the 'order of battle' as "that division and formation of the different arms into separate parts, or sections, of the whole Army, and that form of general position or disposition of those parts which is to be the norm throughout the whole campaign or war." Division comes from the permanent peacetime organization of the Army ...
The Army of the Republic of Vietnam ( ARVN; Vietnamese: Lục quân Việt Nam Cộng hòa; French: Armée de la république du Viêt Nam) composed the ground forces of the South Vietnamese military from its inception in 1955 to the Fall of Saigon in April 1975. [2] At the ARVN's peak, an estimated 1 in 9 citizens of South Vietnam were enlisted ...