Current Events : Warfare & Terrorism

This is the story of the three Australians, members of AATTV, who commanded and led a company of Nungs in the western jungle of Vietnam near Laos to report on the 2nd NVA Division. After joining forces with an American Marine artillery detachment they were attacked by the North Vietnamese in what was to become a bloody battle for both sides. more...

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Having achieved its initial goals in the war on terrorism, the United States is now in a second, more complex phase of the campaign. This monograph reviews events since the attacks of September 11, 2001, and discusses the current state of the al Qaeda organization and the kinds of actions that can be expected of it in the foreseeable future. Because al Qaeda constitutes the most serious immediate threat to the security of the United States, it is imperative that the campaign against terrorism remain focused and pragmatic. This monograph outlines and describes the essential, central elements that must be emphasized in this campaign, the ultimate aim of which is the destruction of a terrorist enterprise that threatens American security and, by extension, the security of the world. more...

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The "Future of Iraq" provides a primer on the history and political dynamics of Iraq, divided by ethnic, religious and political antagonisms, and provocatively argues that the least discussed future of Iraq might be the best: managed partition. more...

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An unflinching, firsthand account of life as a U.S. Marine describes one young man's odyssey from the Parris Island training center to the jungles of Vietnam, from the ordeal of boot camp to the horrors and tragedies of combat. more...

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PFC Franklin Miller arrived in Vietnam in March 1966, was sent straight to a Reconnaissance Platoon, and saw his first combat. So began an odyssey that would make him into one of the most feared and respected men in the Special Forces elite, who made their own rules on the most hazardous frontiers of war. In the exclusive world of the Military Assistance Command, Vietnam, Studies and Observation Group (MAC-V- SOG), Miller ran missions deep into enemy territory under the most adverse conditions--to gather intelligence, snatch prisoners and to kill. Leading small bands of hard-as-nails Montagnard and Meo tribesmen, he was as fierce and fearless as these primitive hunters--and he fought Army policy to stay in combat for six tours. On a top secret mission in 1970, Miller and a handful of men, all critically injured, held off the NVA in an incredible Alamo-like stand--for which he was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. When his time in Southeast Asia ended, he had also received the Silver Star, two Bronze Stars, and Air Medal and six Purple Hearts. more...

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