EBOOK No Sure Victory:Measuring U.S. Army Effectiveness and Progress in the Vietnam War -

EBOOK No Sure Victory:Measuring U.S. Army Effectiveness and Progress in the Vietnam War
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Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199831982
EAN: 877F1BC7EB
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Stron: 368
Data wydania: 2011
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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 deeper into the Army's        techniques for measuring military success and presents a much more complicated-and        disturbing-account of the American misadventure in Indochina.Daddis shows how the US        Army, which confronted an unfamiliar enemy and an even more unfamiliar form of        warfare, adopted a massive, and eventually unmanageable, system of measurements and        formulas to track the progress of military operations that ranged from pacification        efforts to search-and-destroy missions. The Army's monthly "e;Measurement of Progress"e;        reports covered innumerable aspects of the fighting in Vietnam-force ratios,        Vietcong/North Vietnamese Army incidents, tactical air sorties, weapons losses,        security of base areas and roads, population control, area control, and hamlet        defenses. Concentrating more on data collection and less on data analysis, these        indiscriminate attempts to gauge success may actually have hindered the army's        ability to evaluate the true outcome of the fight at hand--a roadblock that Daddis        believes significantly contributed to the many failures that American forces        suffered in Vietnam.Filled with incisive analysis and rich historical detail, No        Sure Victory is not only a valuable case study in unconventional warfare, but a        cautionary tale that offers important perspectives on how to measure performance in        current and future armed conflict. Given America's ongoing counterinsurgency efforts        in Iraq and Afghanistan, No Sure Victory provides valuable historical perspective on        how to measure--and mismeasure--military success.

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