Cedar Falls - Junction City: a Turning Point

Vietnam Studies. Cedar Falls - Junction City: a Turning Point
Author: Lieutenant General Bernard William Rogers
Department of the Army
Pages: 183
Format: PDF
Size: 13 mb
Quality: Good
Language: English
1989

The United States Army has met an unusually complex challenge in Southeast Asia. In conjunction with the other services, the Army has fought in support of a national policy of assisting an emerging nation to develop governmental processes of its own choosing, free of outside coercion. In addition to the usual problems of waging armed conflict, the assignment in Southeast Asia has required superimposing the immensely sophisticated tasks of a modern army upon an underdeveloped environment and adapting them to demands covering a wide spectrum. These involved helping to fulfill the basic needs of an agrarian population, dealing with the frustrations of antiguerrilla operations, and conducting conventional campaigns against well-trained and determined regular units.