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  title info:
    title: Logistics in the Vietnam wars, 1945-1975
  name:
    name part: Nash, Tank.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2020
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 302 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
  abstract: The combatants in the three Vietnam wars from 1945 to 1975 employed widely contrasting supply methods. This fascinating book reveals that basic traditional techniques proved superior to expensive state of the art systems. During the Indochina or French' war, France's initial use of wheeled transport and finally air supply proved vulnerable given the terrain, climate and communist adaptability . The colonial power gave up the unequal struggle after the catastrophic defeat at Dien Bien Phu. To stem the advance of Communism throughout the region, the Americans stepped in to support the pro-Western South Vietnam regime and threw vast quantities of manpower and money at the problem. The cost became increasingly unpopular at home. General Giap's and Ho Chi Minh's ruthless use of coolies most famously on the Ho Chi Minh Trail proved resistant to carpet-bombing and Agent Orange defoliation. The outcome of the final war between the Communist North Vietnam and the corrupt Southern leadership, now with minimal US support, was almost a forgone conclusion.
  note: N.S. Nash.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: a-vt---
  subject:
    topic: Vietnam War, 1961-1975
    topic: Logistics
  subject:
    topic: Indochinese War, 1946-1954
    topic: Logistics
  subject:
    geographic: Vietnam
    topic: History
    temporal: 1945-1975
  classification: DS557.7 .N37 2020
  classification: 959.704
  identifier: 9781526757449
  identifier: 1526757443
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 200131
    record change date: 20210125090948.0
    record identifier: in00004344763