The Mayaguez Incident

Author : Ralph Wetterhahn
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 9780786708581
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Battle written by Ralph Wetterhahn and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the final military contest of the Vietnam War, relating the hijacking of the U.S. merchant ship Mayaguez, the deadly marine raid on a remote Cambodian island to free the ship and its crew, and the fate of three marines left behind after the battle.

Author : Lisa Waller Rogers
Publisher : Lone Star Journals
ISBN 13 : 9780896727205
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mayaguez Incident written by Lisa Waller Rogers and published by Lone Star Journals. This book was released on 2011 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Investigates the four-day international crisis after the 1975 seizure of the SS Mayaguez, which involved both American and Cambodian forces during the Vietnam War. Documents intelligence failures that took place during the Mayaguez incident and reveals how these failures were overcome. Utilizes previously unavailable primary sources"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Richard G. Head
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429726376
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crisis Resolution written by Richard G. Head and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-20 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the nuclear era, the use of even low levels of force risks catastrophe for all mankind. Yet military force remains an important element of political strategy, and control and coordination of its use with other instruments of national power is of vital importance. The authors of this book, examining two crises that occurred during the Ford admini

Author : Ralph Wetterhahn
Publisher : Plume
ISBN 13 : 9780452283336
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Battle written by Ralph Wetterhahn and published by Plume. This book was released on 2002-04-26 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The final battle of the Vietnam War left three forgotten marines on a Cambodian beach, a fact the Pentagon didn't admit for 20 years. The Last Battle recounts their story.

Author : Christopher Jon Lamb
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781075296253
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mayaguez Crisis, Mission Command, and Civil-military Relations written by Christopher Jon Lamb and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preface -- Abbreviations -- Key figures in the Mayaguez Crisis -- Introduction -- Day one: Monday, May 12 -- Day two: Tuesday, May 13 -- Day three: Wednesday, May 14 -- Day four: Thursday, May 15 -- Critical crisis decisions -- Explaining decisions, behaviors and outcomes -- Refining the explanation: rationality, bureaucracy and beliefs -- Findings, issues, prescriptions -- Conclusion.

Author : Clayton K. S. Chun
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1849088772
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Boarding Party written by Clayton K. S. Chun and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-09-20 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just two weeks after the close of the Vietnam War, communist Cambodian Khmer Rouge elements seized the S.S. Mayaguez in international waters. Believing they had to act quickly, United States Marines boarded the ship, only to find the crew had been removed. They then launched an assault on a nearby island where they believed the crew had been taken. Instead of a quick strike against a limited foe, the Marines encountered major opposition and were quickly pinned down. With large numbers of Cambodians closing in all around, the a desperate firefight developed as US forces tried to extract the Marines. This book recounts the bloody struggle on Koh Tang island, as a badly botched hostage rescue turned into a desperate evacuation.

Author : Timothy Castle
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231103176
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book One Day Too Long written by Timothy Castle and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This riveting tale of heroism and patriotism tells the full story of a covert military operation in Laos that resulted in the largest ground combat loss of U.S. Air Force personnel during the Vietnam War.

Author : Dominic D. P. Johnson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674039173
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Failing to Win written by Dominic D. P. Johnson and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do people decide which country came out ahead in a war or a crisis? Why, for instance, was the Mayaguez Incident in May 1975--where 41 U.S. soldiers were killed and dozens more wounded in a botched hostage rescue mission--perceived as a triumph and the 1992-94 U.S. humanitarian intervention in Somalia, which saved thousands of lives, viewed as a disaster? In Failing to Win, Dominic Johnson and Dominic Tierney dissect the psychological factors that predispose leaders, media, and the public to perceive outcomes as victories or defeats--often creating wide gaps between perceptions and reality. To make their case, Johnson and Tierney employ two frameworks: "Scorekeeping," which focuses on actual material gains and losses; and "Match-fixing," where evaluations become skewed by mindsets, symbolic events, and media and elite spin. In case studies ranging from the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis and the current War on Terror, the authors show that much of what we accept about international politics and world history is not what it seems--and why, in a time when citizens offer or withdraw support based on an imagined view of the outcome rather than the result on the ground, perceptions of success or failure can shape the results of wars, the fate of leaders, and the "lessons" we draw from history.

Author : Henry Kissinger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The National Security Council written by Henry Kissinger and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James Kraska
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 1682471179
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Free Sea written by James Kraska and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2018-06-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Free Sea offers a unique, single-volume analysis of incidents in American history that affected U.S. freedom of navigation at sea. The book spans more than 200 years, beginning in the Colonial era with the Quasi-War with France in 1798 and extending to contemporary Freedom of Navigation operations in the South China Sea. Through wars and numerous crises with North Korea, North Vietnam, Cambodia, Iran, Russia and China, freedom of navigation has been a persistent challenge for the United States, a nation reliant on open seas for economic prosperity, military security and global order. This volume focuses on the struggle to retain freedom of the seas. Challenges to U.S. warships and maritime commerce have pushed, and continue to challenge, the United States to vindicate its rights through diplomatic, legal, and military means, underscoring the need for the strategic resolve in the global maritime commons.