The Vietnam War from the rear echelon : an intelligence officer's memoir, 1972-1973
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The Vietnam War from the rear echelon : an intelligence officer's memoir, 1972-1973
（Modern war studies）
University Press of Kansas, 2023, c2011
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"First paperback edition published in 2023"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Timothy Lomperis knows the Vietnam War, both as a soldier and as a scholar. In the latter role he has published extensively, including The War Everyone Lost-and Won, hailed as one of the best books ever written on that conflict. Even though he served two tours "in country" during the war's most frustrating period-from the infamous Easter Invasion through the Paris Peace negotiations-this is the first time he has written about the war from such a personal perspective. An intelligence officer at the Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (MACV), Lomperis and his comrades were tasked with translating Washington war policy into action. Lomperis provides a rare view of the war from the perspective of a rear echelon officer. He and other so-called REMFs were deeply involved in trying to devise and implement strategies that would the win the war. This largely neglected perspective takes center stage in Lomperis's memoir, presenting a seldom-seen midlevel perspective that provides the missing links between the Washington-Hanoi peace negotiations and the deadly battles between troops in the field.
In exposing the inner workings of a military headquarters during wartime, Lomperis recounts the tensions of a command caught between the political imperatives of Washington and the deteriorating military situation on the ground. Involved in the planning and execution of Nixon's 1972 Christmas Bombing Campaign, designed to push the North Vietnamese into peace negotiations, Lomperis sheds new light on Nixon's "secret plan to end the war" while offering rare glimpses of military operations and decision making on the ground in Saigon. Giving color to the REMF story, he also offers a portrait of life in wartime Saigon, writing with genuine respect for and curiosity about Vietnamese culture. And ultimately, he describes his own moral conundrum as the son of missionaries and an initial Cold Warrior who undergoes a gradual disillusionment that resolves into peaceful reconciliation.
This incisive memoir is essential for better comprehending what the Vietnam experience was like for the large contingent of Americans who served there. It suggests the need for some fundamental rethinking about Vietnam-not only for the war's veterans but also for those concerned with the lessons it carries for U.S. involvement in current insurgencies.
目次
Preface: "What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?"Part I. Getting There
1. Prelude to the War's End: The Years 1972-1973
2. Nixon's "Secret" Plan and How I Got to Vietnam
Part II. Over There
3. My Arrival In-Country
4. How the War Was Run: The Easter Invasion
5. Life in Saigon and a Trip to Tuy Hoa
6. Peace Talks, Christmas Bombing-and an Indian Interlude
7. I Spy 1: My Time as an Intelligence Liaison Officer
8. I Spy 2: The Order-of-Battle Conference
9. Civilian Life: The Kieu and Tay Ninh
10. The Unraveling: An Overblown Medal
Part III. Coming to Terms
11. Conclusion: Going Native and Going Home
12. Epilogue: Secret Mission Revealed-and Its Liberation
Chronology
Notes
Acronyms and "Nam Speak"
Index
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