Название: The U.S. Army Before Vietnam, 1953-1965 (The U.S. Army Campaigns of the Vietnam War)
Автор: Donald A. Carter
Издательство: Department of the Army
ISBN: 0160928826
Год: 2015
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 56
Размер: 5,0 МБ
Язык: Английский
The U.S. Army Before Vietnam, 1953–1965, by Donald A. Carter, covers the period between the end of the Korean War and the initial deployment of ground combat troops to Vietnam. It describes the organizational and doctrinal changes the Army implemented as it attempted to digest the lessons of one conflict and to prepare the force for another.
The pamphlet also discusses the service's efforts to maintain its position in national defense within the parameters of President Eisenhower's New Look strategic policy. A key issue for the Army was the question of how to prepare a force to operate on an atomic battlefield. In order to compete with the Air Force and the Navy for a diminishing defense budget, the Army had to show that it, too, was a modern, forward-thinking organization, prepared to integrate a new family of tactical atomic weapons into its organization and doctrine.