商品簡介
In 1965 and 1966, the Communist Vietnamese, orchestrated by militant hardliners in Hanoi, endeavored to crush South Vietnam and expel US forces with a strategy based on 'big unit' combat rather than guerilla warfare. This book draws on Communist Vietnamese sources, US military sources, and personal interviews to detail the formation, development, and participation of the Viet Cong during this period of the war, and to analyze how the failure of the big unit war influenced the decision to launch the Tet Offensive. These sources are used to reconstruct the deployment of major Viet Cong and NVA military units, battles, and campaigns, and to examine the debates that informed the big-unit war. B&w historical photos are included. In addition to books, articles, and papers, the bibliography lists Communist Vietnam sources; unpublished sources; US military reports and military handbooks; and Vietnamese interviews archived at the US Army Center of Military History. Wilkins is affiliated with the Center for Threat Awareness. Annotation c2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
