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Conventional wisdom holds that the US Army in Vietnam, thrust into an unconventional war where occupying terrain was a meaningless measure of success, depended on body counts as its sole measure of military progress. In No Sure Victory, Army officer and historian Gregory Daddis looks far... read more
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Characters/People edit
- William Westmoreland: Add a description of this character.
- Creighton Abrams
- Mcnamara
- Johnson
- Harkins
- Henry Kissinger
- Kinnard
- Vietnamization
- Moore
- Thieu
- Robert Komer
- Kennedy
- Wheeler
- Ewell
- Lansdale
- John Paul Vann
- Hackworth
- Nixon
- Mcgarr
- Maxwell Taylor
- Mcdade
- Walt Rostow
- Cronkite
- Clifford
- Weyand
- David Halberstam
- Gavin
Setting & Locations edit
- South Vietnam
- Saigon
- Vietcong
- Southeast Asia
- Hanoi
- United States
- White House
- Cambodia
- Washington
- U.s. Army
- Laos
- Indochina
- Korea
- Paris
- Pleiku
- North Vietnam
- America
- Algeria
- Honolulu
- Malaya
- Republic Of Vietnam
- Europe
- Galula
- Junction City
- Iraq
- Afghanistan
- West Point
- Ia Drang
- Central Highlands
- Albany
Authors & Contributors edit
- Gregory A. Daddis (Author)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 959.7043420973
Subjects edit
- Books › History › Military › Vietnam War
- Books › History › Asia › Vietnam
- Books › Nonfiction › Politics
- Books › History › Military Science
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