VIETNAM - A War Misplaced And Won

VIETNAM - A War Misplaced And Won

'VIETNAM - A War Lost and Won' by Nigel Cawthorne was first revealed in 2003 by Arcturus Publishing Restricted within the UK. Nigel Cawthorne, who was born in Chicago, the United States, is an American-born British writer of fiction and non-fiction, and an editor.

The book consists of an introduction on what triggered one the worst wars in American war history. It has ten chapters followed by an epilogue, bibliography and index. Offered in paperback with high high quality recycled material, for those who missed the Vietnam War era, this book is highly advisable as it offers a vivid, lucid and statistics on what actually went flawed in the war that had left a everlasting black mark in American might and army superiority.

The front cover of this highly-informative book carries a watermark image of a soldier in full army gear at the background, and American troops crossing what looks like a typical Vietnamese paddy area aided by helicopters above. Surely these images are reminiscence of what regularly seem in Rambo, Platoon and Missing in Action Hollywood flicks.

It additionally offers the maps of Vietnam showing the disputed areas -the North and South, the very two territories that were in constant limelight all through the war. One other map will support the readers on the Tet Offensive which happened from January to February 1968. Not only that, the book has high-quality real life photographs, photographs shot in real battles, displaying the various property of the American forces, the people who dictated the war from behind and different chronological evidences in what can be the only war that the Individuals lost.

Written in easy yet precise language, the book presents abundance of numerical evidences and readers will likely be treated to overwhelming shocks and bounces. The statistical records revealed in this book will inform us that forty six, 370 US servicemen were killed where more than 10,000 died from non-fight associated causes and more than one hundred,000 wounded. The US authorities had spent a whopping USD 145billion, a large amount for that time, for a worthless war that began in 1965 and led to 1975, years after the Paris Peace Accord.

The US lost four, 865 helicopters, each costs a few quarter of a million dollars and eight million tons of bombs were dropped in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia combined, a number far-out fetched the amount dropped throughout the whole of World War II (WW II). The B52, a pride of American hegemony, dropped USD200, 000 price of bombs out of its bomb-bay doors on every mission. Readers can even get to establish the other assets of the US Military, from US UH 13 Helicopters often called Hueys, US Strike Patrol Boat (STAB), M60 Machine guns, the B52 Bomber, to US Phantom Jets utilized in Operation Rolling Thunder, have been persistently talked about throughout the book.

One other plus point of this book is that the writer had distanced himself from all parts obvious to parochialism; regionalism and blind nationalism, hence neglected the aspect of 1-sidedness in his views. In response to the writer, more than 18million individuals had been displaced throughout the war, and more than 3 per cent of South Vietnam was totally devastated past recognition.

Further revelations indicate that 18million gallons of defoliants were used within the war which resulted in severely handicapped and malformed babies. As many as 50,000 were nonetheless being detained as political prisoners- Prisoners of War (POWs) as until 1986 and the author went on to additional make clear that the after effect of the war had 865, 000 people fleeing the country searching for greener pastures elsewhere.

The author additionally took a swipe at American soldiers during the war, mocking at their ignorance of being boastful in undermining the enemy's strength. This was enhanced by means of the use of phrases which have been frequent among US servicemen in Vietnam at that time, like 'gooks' - a derogatory term referring to folks of Asian descent in the US and 'peasants' - referring to the Vietnamese insurgents who predominantly encompass farmers. The lost to this military of peasants further ignited the fire of dire humiliation within the US.

The writer also additional affirmed the fact that typically, the people of Vietnam has a special affinity with the soil of their country and the guerrilla warfare that the so-called peasant army fought, was fought till the final drop of blood in contrast to their counterpart who, on a serious scale consists of reluctant draftees, some of their teenage years, preventing as soldiers manning the forefront of the bloody battle.

On war strategies, the author identified that from day one, the superior military had received it all wrong. The Vietnamese had received the war via the most effective use of underneathground tunnels, used for centuries even before the invasion of the US army, towards the likes of the Chinese and the French. The Vietnamese had tunnels running for hundreds of miles from the Cambodian border to the gates of Saigon. They had dormitories, workshops, hospitals, kitchens, headquarter facilities and provide depots built in inside these tunnels. Made of laterite clay, the surface becomes hardened like concrete once uncovered to the scorching sun. With this info, the writer had revealed to the readers that it was indeed true that one of many essential reasons on why the Individuals had misplaced the war was because they had been combating an unseen enemy; ceaselessly appearing out of nowhere, engaged the enemy in sudden combat, solely then to disappear into thin air.

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