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Michael Herr's dazzling war memoir, Dispatches, offers this: Search and Destroy, more a gestalt than a tactic, brought up alive and steaming from the Command psyche. Not just a walk and a firefight, in action it should have been named the other way around, pick through the pieces and see if you could work together a count,
Search and destroy operations began in 1964, before U.S. ground forces were committed. These operations were conducted to locate the North Vietnamese Army and Viet Cong main force units in and around their base areas and to attack them by fire and maneuver. Since enemy infiltration of the populated areas depended heavily on [169]
Feb 19, 2018 · The second war is the Vietnam War, “our” war. The more we look at American decision-making in Vietnam, the less sense it makes. Geopolitics helps explain our concerns about the fate of...
Jun 12, 2006 · On November 20, 1968, at 4 a.m., Operation Meade River commenced. The monsoons for this part of Vietnam had started in October. Temperatures were dropping, and the Marines often found the nights cold. The conditions were miserable, and the rains, averaging one inch daily, added to the misery.
Combat Operations: Taking the Offensive chronicles the onset of offensive operations by the U.S. Army after eighteen months of building up a credible force on the ground in South Vietnam and...
Oct 31, 2008 · 'Search And Destroy' It's the end of 1968, the high watermark of the Vietnam War. Nearly a half-million American troops are in the country. U.S. forces suffered some 15,000 combat deaths...
Operation Masher, also known as Operation White Wing, (24 January—6 March 1966) was the largest search and destroy mission that had been carried out in the Vietnam War up until that time. [6] .
