The Green Berets in the land of a million elephants : U.S. Army special warfare and the secret war in Laos 1959-74 / Joseph D. Celeski

Author:: Celeski, Joseph D.
Published:: Havertown, PA : Casemate Publishers, 2019.
Copyright Date:: ©2019
Physical Description:: xiv, 346 pages, 48 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

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Machine generated contents note: pt. I BACKGROUND -- ch. 1 Fighting in the Land of a Million Elephants -- pt. II AMERICAN MILITARY ASSISTANCE -- ch. 2 Hotfoot. Army Special Forces Deploy to Laos -- ch. 3 Hotfoot to White Star. Rotation IV and the Transition to Combat -- pt. III OPERATION WHITE STAR: GREEN BERETS AT WAR -- ch. 4 Operation Momentum: White Star Begins Unconventional Warfare -- ch. 5 White Star Rotation V: The Ineffective Ceasefire -- ch. 6 White Star Rotation VI: "Fighting While Talking": Expansion of Combat Missions -- ch. 7 Operation Pincushion: The Kha Tribal Guerrilla Program -- ch. 8 The Thakhek, Se Bang Fai River, and Mahaxay Campaign: Operations in the MR-III Panhandle -- ch. 9 White Star Foreign Internal Defense (FID) Activities: Schools, Academies, and Proficiency Courses -- ch. 10 1962: White Star Rotations VI & VII and the SOF Withdrawal from Laos -- pt. IV U.S. ARMY SPECIAL FORCES IN LAOS 1966-1974 -- ch. 11 Special Forces in Laos 1964-1974: Project 404 -- ch. 12 Special Forces in Laos 1966-1974: The Enabler: The 46th Special Forces Company (Independent).

Summary:

From 1959 to 1974, the Army Special Forces of the United States served the ambassadors to Laos in the prosecution of the "secret war" that aimed to prevent the spread of communism, support the Royal Lao Government, and additionally deter NVA incursion into Laos. - book jacket

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ISBN:

1612006655 hardcover
9781612006659 hardcover

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Includes index and selected bibliography.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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