Corps Competency?

III Marine Amphibious Force Headquarters in Vietnam

Michael F. Morris (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

348 Seiten

2024
University Press of Kansas (Verlag)
978-0-7006-3693-8 (ISBN)

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The Vietnam War ended nearly fifty years ago but the central paradox of the struggle endures: how did the world’s strongest nation fail to secure freedom for the Republic of Vietnam? Michael F. Morris addresses this vexing question by focusing on the senior Marine headquarters in the conflict’s most dangerous region. Known as I Corps, the northern five provinces of South Vietnam witnessed the bloodiest fighting of the entire war. I Corps also contained the Viet Cong’s strongest infrastructure, key portions of the Ho Chi Minh Trail, and the important political and economic prizes of Hue and Da Nang. For Americans, it was the site of the first major military operation (Operation STARLITE); the Battles of Hue City and Khe Sanh during the 1968 Tet Offensive; and a military innovation known as the Combined Action Platoon (CAP), a counterinsurgency technique designed to secure the region’s villages. The Marine zone served as Saigon’s “canary in the coal mine”—if the war was to be won, allied action must succeed in its most contested region. With such deep significance, I Corps holds many answers to the lasting questions of the Vietnam War.

Following the Marine Amphibious Force (III MAF)—the primary US tactical command in I Corps from 1965 to 1970—Corps Competency? provides the first composite analysis of the critical role of the senior Marine headquarters and offers a coherence missing in piecemeal accounts. Despite the critical importance of I Corps, relatively little is known about its overall impact on the war due to disconnected and patchy historical study of the region.

In this comprehensive and newly insightful study of the Vietnam War, Michael Morris tells a story that illustrates what can happen when a corps headquarters is not ready for the conflict it encounters and then fights the war it wants to rather than the one it must.

Dr. Michael F. Morris is a retired colonel in the US Marine Corps and associate professor of Military History at Marine Corps University’s School of Advanced Warfighting (SAW). Morris served thirty years as a Marine artillery officer and operational planner.

List of Figures and Tables
Acknowledgments
Acronyms and Abbreviations
Introduction: Waging War in I Corps
Prologue: Marines and Corps-Level Command, 1941–1965149569
1. Corps-Level Command in Vietnam
2. III MAF Command and Control
3. III MAF Intelligence
4. III MAF Operations
5. III MAF Personnel and Logistics
6. III MAF Plans
7. III MAF’s Hybrid War
Epilogue: Lessons and Legacies, 1971–1991
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	05.07.2024
Reihe/Serie	Modern War Studies
Zusatzinfo	12 b&w photographs, 6 tables, 1 map, 1 figure
Verlagsort	Kansas
Sprache	englisch
Maße	229 x 152 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	0-7006-3693-5 / 0700636935
ISBN-13	978-0-7006-3693-8 / 9780700636938
Zustand	Neuware