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While in the army, Krepinevich received an M.P.A. from the Harvard Kennedy School in 1980 and then earned a Ph.D. at Harvard University in 1984 while teaching social sciences at the U.S. Military Academy. [3] [5] [6] His doctoral thesis was entitled The Army concept and Vietnam: a case study in organizational failure. [7]
Andrew F. Krepinevich, The Army and Vietnam (Johns Hopkins University 1986). Ralph McGehee, Deadly Deceits. My 25 years in the CIA (New York: Sheriden Square 1983). H. R. McMaster, Dereliction of Duty (New York: HarperCollins 1997, HarperPerennial 1998). Robert S. McNamara, In Retrospect. The tragedy and lessons of Vietnam (New York: Times ...
Other analysts however, such as Andrew F. Krepinevich Jr., (The Army and Vietnam), maintain that there were equal or better alternatives available at the time besides large-scale attrition operations. [46] In between are any number of variants on these themes. [65] Uneven progress of US pacification effort.
In his book Vietnam: a History (Viking,1983) Stanley Karnow describes his observations: In the last week of November . . I drove south from Saigon into Long An, a province in the Mekong Delta, the rice basket of South Vietnam where 40 per cent of the population lived. There I found the strategic hamlet program begun during the Diem regime in ...
The Pentagon's Office of Net Assessment, led by Andrew Marshall, has played a leading role in designing U.S. strategy in the Pacific.Marshall's office works closely with the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments led by Lieutenant-Colonel Andrew Krepinevich, whose outfit helped coin the phrase AirSea Battle.
The area of Operation Thayer, Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam. Operation Thayer was the largest air assault undertaken up until that time in the Vietnam War. [6] The focus of Operation Thayer was the Kim Son Valley where seven small rivers, separated by mountains, came together in what the Americans called the Crow's Foot.
While Diem spoke of internal security and military defense, his real interest in the Civil Guard was political. Most members of the guard were former militiamen from the Catholic regions of North Vietnam who had fled south after the Viet Minh victory in 1954 and were among Diem's most loyal supporters. Diem wanted to develop the Civil Guard ...
To some US soldiers who fought against the VC/NVA, like US Lt. General Phillip Davidson, Chief of Military Intelligence from 1967 to 69, [35]: 803–850 and US war historians like Andrew F. Krepinevich Jr. [7] this strategy was a superior one in terms of Communist objectives and strengths, and American/GVN weaknesses. Superior motivation and ...