By John M. Collins

John M. Collins has distilled the knowledge of history's nice army minds to teach readers at the invaluable highbrow abilities to win not just battles but in addition wars. He illuminates practices that labored good or poorly long ago, including explanation why. He discusses nationwide defense pursuits, strategic development blocks, army thoughts around the clash spectrum, equipment for constructing expertise and strategic acumen, and up to date case experiences that placed rules into perform. Collins by no means tells readers what to imagine, yet in army approach he presents them with the highbrow instruments to imagine for themselves. Written in a transparent, straight forward variety, this e-book will entice officials, policy-makers, scholars, and the general public.

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For a review of the aid program in South Vietnam, see John D. Montgomery, Tire Politics of Foreign Aid (New York : Frederick A . Praeger, 1962), pp. 224- 32. 16 The French Legacy in Indochina, 1945- 1960 cast statio ns throughout South Vietnam . S. Info rmatio n Service was already broadcasting the Voice·of America to North Vietnam fro m its station in the Philippines, the American ambassador deferred building a high-powered transmitter for broadcasting to North Vietnam until after the domestic network was completed .

Map 1) Some $27 million was to come fro m a State Department-administered Asian Economic Develo pment Fund and $3 million fro m the Department of Defense . The Internatio nal Cooperation Administration, the age ncy that operated foreign assistance programs for the State Department, was to oversee the installation of the project. Unacquainted with communications requirements or the env ironment in Southeast Asia, the International Cooperatio n Administration negotiated a contrac t based on a vag ue pro posal with two American co mpanies, Page Communications Engineers and Hyco n Eastern Company, to do an eng ineering survey for the regional system .

S. Army, Pacific, General Isaac D. White, asked the Army's Chief of Staff, General George H . Decker, to assign a signal company to the Pacific to install communications for a task force headquarters in Southeast Asia should SEATO operatio ns plans be invoked . General Decker responded that a strictl y enforced ceiling o n the size of the Army and commitment of the strategic reserve to other areas of the world ruled o ut even such a small reinforcement in the Pacific. In the canon of world wide American strategic prio rities South Vietnam seemed destined to remain a minor front of the Cold WaL ' Early Contingency Plans merican military assistance in Southeast Asia began at a time when the A United States was preoccupied w ith a conventio nal war in Korea and was resisting the Communists by French proxy in Indochina.

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