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Sir Lawrence David Freedman, KCMG, CBE, PC, FBA (born 1948) is a British academic, historian and author specialising in foreign policy, international relations and strategy. [1] He has been described as the "dean of British strategic studies" [ 2 ] and was a member of the Iraq Inquiry . [ 3 ]
Russell A. Freedman (October 11, 1929 – March 16, 2018) was an American biographer and the author of nearly 50 books for young people. He may be best known for winning the 1988 Newbery Medal with his work Lincoln: A Photobiography .
Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945–1975 is a 2018 nonfiction book by the British military historian Max Hastings. The full text is divided into 28 chapters. The full text is divided into 28 chapters. The author recounts the beginnings of the First Indochina War up until the end of The Vietnam War .
The number of soldiers in South Vietnam was 16,752 in October and on December 31, 1963, was 15,894. [8] Robert McNamara. Presidents Kennedy and Johnson had made decisions on the Vietnam War based on optimistic reports from the American Embassy and MACV in Saigon and from frequent assessment missions by U.S. policy makers.
This was the first major book by an American on Vietnam, its history, and the United States activities there. FitzGerald said it was a "first draft of history." She explored thousands of years of the history and culture of Vietnam, showing how these affected the relations of its peoples with their encounter with the United States.
Operation Popeye (Project Controlled Weather Popeye / Motorpool / Intermediary-Compatriot) was a military cloud-seeding project carried out by the U.S. Air Force during the Vietnam War in 1967–1972.
Ed W. "Too Tall" Freeman (November 20, 1927 – August 20, 2008) was a United States Army helicopter pilot who received the United States military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his actions in the Battle of Ia Drang during the Vietnam War. During the battle, he flew through machine gunfire 14 times, bringing supplies to a trapped ...
Free World Military Forces headquarters in Saigon, South Vietnam, 1971. Free World Military Assistance Forces (FWMAF also known as Free World Military Forces or FWMF) was the group of allied nations who sent troops to fight in the Vietnam War under the FWMF banner, assisting South Vietnam against North Vietnam, China, Soviet Union, and North Korea.