| Description |
xvii, 408 pages, <8> pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. If They Can Do It, So Can We -- 2. Standing Up MACVSOG -- 3. Going North -- 4. Drive Them Crazy with Psywar -- 5. From the Sea -- 6. Crossing the Fence -- 7. The Great Divide: SOG and U.S. Military Strategy -- 8. Presidential Control of the Convert War: Kennedy Aggressiveness and Johnson Trepidation |
| Summary |
"From 1964 to 1972, the United States executed an extremely secret campaign of covert operations against North Vietnam. Controlled by the Pentagon's Special Operations Group, under the cover name "Studies and Observation Group" (SOG), it was the United States' largest and most complex covert operation since World War II. Because it was so highly classified and politically sensitive, once the war was over the story of SOG was buried deep in the vaults of the Pentagon - until Dr. Richard H. Shultz, Jr., one of the world's leading experts on SOG's activities in Southeast Asia, began his investigative research and wide-ranging special interviews."--BOOK JACKET. "There are lessons to be learned from Washington's conduct of the secret war against Hanoi that will be valuable and valid for years to come for presidents who engage in covert special operations to meet twenty-first-century threats to vital U.S. interests."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Secret service -- United States.
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Military intelligence -- United States.
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Subversive activities -- Vietnam.
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Subversive activities -- Vietnam (Democratic Republic)
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Politics and government -- 1961-1963. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140469
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United States -- Politics and government -- 1963-1969. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140470
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| LC no. |
99044524 |
| ISBN |
0060194545 |
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9780060194543 |
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