U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Armed Services, Subcommittee on Oversight & Investigations
The House Armed Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations chose to examine the Department of Defense (the Department, DOD) foreign language program's "transformation" efforts to improve language skills, regional expertise, and cultural...
United States Army Combat Developments Command, Institute of Advanced Studies; Miller, Eugene H.; Hall, Charles S.; Miller, Jessie A.; Roberts, Harley M.
In November 1967, the United States Army Combat Developments Command published a classified study, "Countering Communist China, 1970-1980 (U)." The object of this study was to develop concepts that would make it possible for the United States to...
During the war years, the Republic of Vietnam and the United States pursued a common goal; their armed forces fought against the same enemy, under the same campaign plan, with the same weapon systems, and in the same environment. The strategic...
Section I contains a report on air and naval campaigns against North Vietnam and Pacific Command-wide support of the war from June 1964 to July 1968. It discusses command structure, Rolling Thunder Operations, Naval surface operations and Pacific...
This staff study addresses the problem of determining how the civil affairs responsibilities of U.S. military advisors are affected by the introduction of large numbers of U.S. or Allied forces to conduct military operations.
United States Military Assistance Command, Vietnam
The "Handbook for military support of pacification" has been developed as a basic reference document designed for use by United States forces, Republic of Vietnam forces, and Free World Military Assistance Forces operating in the Republic of...
This handbook represents an accumulation of general information and guidance on all aspects of the Peoples Self-Defense Force program. It provides appropriate references to GVN Directives which establish PSDF policy, programs, and reporting...
This village security planning guide was published specifically for use by District and Mobile Advisory Teams in assisting their Vietnamese counterparts in the accomplishment of the 1970 pacification and development plan. It reflects the desires of...
The purpose of this SOP was to enumerate those procedures which were unique to the 29th Civil Affairs Company and which were habitually used to accomplish routine or recurring technical and administrative matters. The procedures outlined in this...
Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (MACV), Headquarters; Office of Civil Operations, American Embassy, Saigon
This report was written to provide instruction and guidance for the preparation and submission of the Revolutionary Development Hamlet Evaluation Report (RDHER). Enclosures include Viet Cong military activities, Viet Cong political and subversive...
Seeks to demonstrate that battle, or at least one battle, has a pattern which research can uncover: to this end, to determine by exhaustive analysis of all data obtainable the lineup of troops, the tactics of each contender, and the course of...
Contains extracts from command reports for information, evaluation and any necessary action in accordance with SR 525-85-5. Reports contain information on situation and operations as well as lessons learned and conclusions. Extracts from sources...
This document is the first of two volumes that examine the Vietnam conflict from the perspective of the theater commander and his headquarters. It traces the story of the Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (MACV), from its establishment in...
MACV: The Joint Command in the Years of Withdrawal, 1968--1973, is the second of two volumes that examine the Vietnam conflict from the perspective of the theater commander and his headquarters. It traces the story of the Military Assistance...
Few developments in Anny training have been of such broad scope and long-term significance as the National Training Center (NTC), established in October 1980 at Fort Irwin in the Mojave Desert of California This instrumented training facility, for...
The history of the Gatling Gun Detachment, Fifth Army Corps, is to a certain extent the history of the Santiago campaign. The detachment was organized on the spur of the moment, to utilize material which would otherwise have been useless, and was...
This volume of papers begins with one of the central strategic issues facing the country--the lack of operational, deployable civilians. Many studies on ideal solutions to grow civilian capacity gather dust on credenzas. Until this utopian ideal is...
This publication presents a series of lessons learned on fire support coordination agencies, organizations, procedures and techniques used by the Free World Military Assistance Forces (FWMAF), Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces (RVNAF) and US forces...
The World Factbook is a guide to country profiles containing fields including geography, people, government, economy, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues.
The World Factbook is produced annually by the Directorate of Intelligence of the Central Intelligence Agency. The data are provided by various components of the Central Intelligence Agency, the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Bureau of the...