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Book Review: Fighting for Time: Rhodesia’s Military and Zimbabwe’s Independence
Charles G. Thomas
Author: Charles D. Melson
Reviewed by Charles G. Thomas, associate professor of comparative studies, Air University Global College
The struggle for Rhodesia, otherwise known as the Bush War, centered on the decolonization of Rhodesia and involved ugly racial dynamics. The reviewer sees this work as “as comprehensive and critical as a single volume may be about Rhodesia’s military during the Bush War.”
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Book Review: War in the Villages: The U.S. Marine Corps Combined Action Platoons in the Vietnam War
William Thomas Allison
Author: Ted N. Easterling
Reviewed by Dr. William Thomas Allison, professor of history, Georgia Southern University
Published on April 20, 2023. Former Marine and Vietnam War veteran Ted Easterling evaluates the Marine Combined Action Platoons and their effectiveness, calling them an “appropriate counterinsurgency method” whose potential was squandered during the Vietnam War.
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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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