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Goodnight Saigon: American provincial advisors' final impressions of the Vietnam War / Boylan, Kevin M

Boylan, Kevin M	Journal Article
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2014.

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This article tests the veracity of the Revisionist thesis that the United States effectively won the Vietnam War in the years after Tet 1968. Since quantitative indicators could not accurately measure who was winning the "War in the Villages," it relies instead upon qualitative assessments made by U.S. Province Senior Advisors-the Americans best qualified to make such judgments. It is organized into three sections dealing with the key Revisionist claims that the Vietcong insurgency was defeated, the Saigon regime gained control of practically the entire rural population, and the South Vietnamese armed forces became capable of standing on their own.

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Military Operations ; Vietnam War ; Military Strategy ; China ; Vietnam - History ; Six Day War ;
Saigon ; International Relation - IR ; United States - US ; Wartime Doctrine ; Vietcong Insurgency ; Saigon Regime ;
Cold War

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ID: 135018

No “technical knockout: Giap’s artillery at Dien Bien Phu / Boylan, Kevin M

Boylan, Kevin M	Article
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This article challenges the thesis that the 1954 Battle of Dien Bien Phu was decided by the overwhelming firepower of the besieging Vietnamese People’s Army (VPA). This has been the prevailing narrative in Western accounts of the battle, and long went undisputed because Vietnamese historians wrote little on the subject. However, a flood of new Vietnamese works published around the fiftieth anniversary of the siege in 2004 reveal that the VPA had only a modest quantitative advantage in artillery and fired fewer shells than the French. Its victory therefore owed more to superior engineering, innovative tactics, and other factors.

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ID: 092683

Red queen's race: operation Washington green and pacification in Binh Dinh province, 1969-70 / Boylan, Kevin M

Boylan, Kevin M	Journal Article
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2009.

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Vietnam - History ; Washington ; Red Queen Race ; Binh Dinh Province ; U S Army

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