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The Battle of Ap Bac, Vietnam

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The Battle of Ap Bac, Vietnam

The Battle of Ap Bac, Vietnam By David M. Toczek
2001 | 224 Pages | ISBN: 0313316759 , 1591148537 | PDF | 15 MB


On 2 January 1963 the South Vietnamese Army (ARVN) and its American advisers were soundly defeated by Viet Cong guerrilla forces at Ap Bac. The loss should have caused US policy makers to question the value of their efforts to train and equip the ARVN troops, but they failed to perceive the battle s significance. Toczek notes that while a few tactical changes resulted from the battle, no policy changes were made, not even to the structure of the advisory system. This careful examination of a battle seen as a metaphor of the entire Vietnam War will prove useful to readers eager to avoid the pitfalls of the past as they consider how best to fight insurgents of the twenty-first century.