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Book Review: Determined to Persist: General Earle Wheeler, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Military’s Foiled Pursuit of Victory in Vietnam
Gregory L. Cantwell
Author: Mark A. Viney
Reviewed by Dr. Gregory L. Cantwell, professor, Center for Strategic Leadership, US Army War College
Published on April 20, 2023. How did the leadership dynamics of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS), the president, and others during the height of the Vietnam War play out? Determined to Persist analyzes General Earle G. Wheeler and others and offers what the reviewer calls a fresh perspective on the topic.
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Book Review: Clear, Hold, and Destroy: Pacification in Phú Yên and the American War in Vietnam
Samantha A. Taylor
Author: Robert J. Thompson III
Reviewed by Dr. Samantha A. Taylor, assistant professor of military and security studies, Air Command and Staff College
Published on April 20, 2023. There is no shortage of books that explore the Vietnam War and why it ended the way it did. This book does not focus on strategy or events but on the middle-level US and South Vietnamese pacification policy in the Phú Yên province and the communist strategy to counter it.
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Book Review: Old & New Battlespaces: Society, Military Power, and War
Robert J. Bunker
Authors: Jahara Matisek and Buddhika Jayamaha
Reviewed by Dr. Robert J. Bunker, director of research and analysis and managing partner, C/O Futures, LLC
Published on April 7, 2023. In Old & New Battlespaces: Society, Military Power, and War, Drs. Jahara Matisek and Buddhika Jayamaha, examine the nature of battlespace and how one can make sense of it across space, through well-known and emergent domains, and along the various levels of war, asking where one should look, how one should look, and for what one should look. Reviewer Dr. Robert J. Bunker shows how the book executes well in its modernist approach and writing.
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Book Review: Useful Captives: The Role of POWs in American Military Conflicts
Michael E. Lynch
Editors: Daniel Krebs and Lorien Foote
Reviewed by Dr. Michael E. Lynch, senior historian, Strategic Studies Institute, US Army War College
Published on April 7, 2023. A book of useful and thought-provoking essays, Useful Captives: The Role of POWs in American Military History explores 300 years of wars and the role POWs have played in them. Reviewer Dr. Michael Lynch walks readers through more than half of the groups featured in the book.
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