Since the end of the Cold War, the United States Army has been reengineered and downsized more thoroughly than any other business. In the early s, General Sullivan, army chief of staff, and Colonel Harper, his key strategic planner, took the p Du kanske gillar. The Seine Elaine Sciolino Inbunden. Ladda ned. Spara som favorit. Laddas ned direkt. Historical accounts and memoirs of the Vietnam War often ignore the participation of nations other than Vietnam and the United States.
By the late s, more than eight thousand Australians were deployed in the region or providing support to the forces there. In Team 19 in Vietnam, David Millie offers an insightful account of his twelve-month tour with the renowned Australian Army Training Team Vietnam in Quang Tri Province -- a crucial tactical site along the demilitarized zone that was North Vietnam's gateway to the south.
Drawing from published and unpublished military documents, his personal diary, and the letters he wrote while deployed, Millie introduces readers to the daily routines, actions, and disappointments of a field staff officer. He discusses his interactions with province senior advisor Colonel Harley F. Mooney and Major John Shalikashvili, who would later become chairman of the U. Joint Chiefs of Staff. This firsthand narrative vividly demonstrates the importance of the region and the substantial number of forces engaged there.
Few Australian accounts of the Vietnam War exist, and Millie offers a rare glimpse into the year after the Tet offensive, when Presidents Johnson and Nixon both made it clear that the U.
This important memoir reveals that responsibility for the catastrophe inflicted on Vietnamese civilians is shared by an international community that failed to act effectively in the face of a crisis. Bloggat om Team 19 in Vietnam.
