[GreyFriar]

I’ve made a couple of comments regarding US Army, military history, and the Vietnam War recently. I thought I would post these links to the Center of Military History’s webpages on the Vietnam war.

the main webpage for the Center of Military History is:

http://www.history.army.mil/index.html

According to a friend who works there, CMH’s webpage has been the NUMBER ONE of ALL Army webpages for total hits for over a year and is still #1 as of this month.

[zot]

Thanks for posting this. I will be visiting the CMH website.

[minnesota_bound]

A chapter in the beginning should explain how the democrats just like in Korea and WW2 cause the deaths of millions of people from the communists because they support the communists. Current history will swap communists with terrorists.

[onedoug]

I have 3 Dept Of The Army monographs:

“Shrapening The Combat Edge”, LTG Julian J Ewell & MJG Ira A Hunt Jr (1974);

“Allied Participation In Vietnam”, LTG Stanley Robert Lawson & BGN James Lawton Collins Jr (1975);

and “Mounted Combat In Vietnam”, GEN Donn A Starry (1978), which actually has my picture in it standing on an ACAV.

[Rockingham]

The Army’s history of the Vietnam War is incomplete and has been notoriously slow to appear. Outside historians surmise that this is due to contentious issues, the secrecy that still attaches to important documentation, and that criticisms of the conduct of the war would bear against still living senior officers and political figures eager to defend their reputations. No historian wants to write a supposedly definitive official history only to have outraged witnesses pop up in refutation, with abundant supporting documentation in hand from their personal files.