Jungle of Snakes (34 page)

14
.
Stuart A. Herrington,
Silence Was a Weapon: The Vietnam War in the Villages
(Novato, CA: Presidio Press, 1982), 11.

15
.
Hunt,
Pacification
, 236.

16
.
Eric M. Bergerud,
The Dynamics of Defeat: The Vietnam War in Hau Nghia Province
(Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1991), 232.

17
.
Herrington,
Silence Was a Weapon
, 65.

18
.
Ibid., 98.

19
.
Ronald H. Spector,
After Tet: The Bloodiest Year in Vietnam
(New York: Free Press, 1993), 290.

20
.
Bergerud,
Dynamics of Defeat
, 306.

Chapter 19: Lessons from a Lost War

1
.
For a full discussion see John M. Gates, “People’s War in Vietnam,”
Journal of Military History
54 (July 1990): 325–44. Pages 338–41 specifically examine Viet Cong participation in the invasion.

2
.
Sir Robert Thompson, ed.,
War in Peace: Conventional and Guerrilla Warfare Since 1945
(New York: Harmony Books, 1981), 190.

3
.
Carlvon Clausewitz,
On War
(Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin Books, 1982), 119.

4
.
Nhu Tang Truong,
Journal of a Viet Cong
(London: Jonathan Cape, 1986), 183.

5
.
John A. Nagl,
Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam: Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife
(Westport, CT: Praeger, 2002), 166.

6
.
Francis J. Kelly,
U.S. Army Special Forces, 1961–1971
(Washington, D.C.: Department of the Army, 1973), 87.

7
.
Andrew F. Krepinevich, Jr.,
The Army and Vietnam
(Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986), 174.

8
.
W. Scott Thompson and Donaldson D. Frizzell,
The Lessons of Vietnam
(New York: Crane, Russak & Co., 1977), 213.

9
.
F. J. West, Jr., “Area-Security” (Monograph, Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 1969), 4.

10
.
Ibid., 1–2.

11
.
Michael A. Hennessy,
Strategy in Vietnam: The Marines and Revolutionary Warfare in I Corps, 1965–1972
(Westport, CT: Praeger, 1997), 181.

12
.
Krepinevich,
The Army and Vietnam
, 216.

13
.
James R. Arnold,
Presidents Under Fire: Commanders in Chief in Victory and Defeat
(New York: Orion Books, 1994), 272.

Conclusion: Reflections on a War Without End

1
.
In the past decade the actual site of this ambush has been discovered and explored by archaeologists, thus providing dramatic
detail.

2
.
Scott Peterson,
Me Against My Brother: At War in Somalia, Sudan, and Rwanda
(London: Routledge, 2000), 20.

3
.
George Packer, “Knowing the Enemy: Can Social Scientists Redefine the ‘War on Terror’?”
New Yorker
, December 18, 2006, 61.

4
.
U.S. Army Headquarters,
FM3-24: Counterinsurgency
(Washington, D.C.: Headquarters, Department of the Army, 2006), vii, 2.

5
.
Yochi J. Dreazen, “Petraeus Promoted, to Leave Iraq,”
Wall Street Journal,
April 24, 2008, A3.

6
.
Brigadier General J. Franklin Bell’s address to his officers, December 1, 1901, Batangas Province, Philippine Islands, in
Robert D. Ramsey III,
A Masterpiece of Counterguerrilla Warfare: B. G. J. Franklin Bell in the Philippines, 1901–1902
(Fort Leavenworth, KS: Combat Studies Institute Press, 2007), 36.

7
.
Jeffrey Race,
War Comes to Long An
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1972), 263.

8
.
Affairs in the Philippine Islands
,
Hearings Before the Committee on the Philippines of the United States Senate
, 57th Congress, 1st Session, Senate Doc. 331 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1902), part 1, 77.

9
.
Paul Aussaresses,
The Battle of the Casbah: Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism in Algeria, 1955–1957
(New York: Enigma Books, 2005), xxi.

10
.
Gil Merom,
How Democracies Lose Small Wars: State, Society, and the Failures of France in Algeria, Israel in Lebanon, and the United
States in Vietnam
(Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2003), 127.

11
.
Sir Robert Thompson,
Defeating Communist Insurgency: The Lessons of Malaya and Vietnam
(New York: Praeger Publishers, 1966), 52–54.

12
.
Alistair Horne,
A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954–1962
(Middlesex, England: Penguin Books, 1985), 205.

13
.
Affairs in the Philippine Islands
,
Hearings Before the Committee on the Philippines of the United States Senate
, 57th Congress, 1st Session, Senate Doc. 331 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1902), part 1, 65.

14
.
Albert G. Robinson,
The Philippines: The War and the People; A Record of Personal Observations and Experiences
(New York: McClure, Phillips & Co., 1901), 379.

15
.
Ibid., 405.

16
.
Ibid.

17
.
Michael M. Phillips, “In Counterinsurgency Class, Soldiers Think Like Taliban,”
Wall Street Journal
, November 30, 2007.

18
.
U. S. Marine Corps,
Small Wars Manual, United States Marine Corps 1940
(Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1940), 26.

19
.
Richard M. Cavagnol, “Lessons from Vietnam: Essential Training of Marine Advisors and Combined Action Platoon Personnel,”
Marine Corps Gazette
, March 2007, 17.

20
.
Gina Chon, “Iraq Prime Minister Gets Boost with Ebb in Violence,”
Wall Street Journal
, June 13, 2008.

21
.
Peter Paret,
French Revolutionary Warfare from Indochina to Algeria: The Analysis of a political and Military Doctrine
(New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1964), 31.

22
.
Thompson,
Defeating Communist Insurgency
, 143.

23
.
Affairs in the Philippine Islands
,
Hearings Before the Committee on the Philippines of the United States Senate
, 57th Congress, 1st Session, Senate Doc. 331 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1902), part 1, 61.

24
.
“Statement of Maj. Gen. Arthur MacArthur,”
Affairs in the Philippine Islands
,
Hearings Before the Committee on the Philippines of the United States Senate
, 57th Congress, 1st Session, Senate Doc. 331 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1902), part 2, 1918.

25
.
Phillip B. Davidson,
Vietnam at War
(Novato, CA: Presidio, 1988), 798.

26
.
Paret,
French Revolutionary Warfare
, 94.

27
.
Michael K. Clark,
Algeria in Turmoil: A History of the Rebellion
(New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1959), 319.

28
.
See Yochi J. Dreazen, “Training: Mission Unaccomplished U.S. Army Still Struggles with How to School Iraqi Security Forces,”
Wall Street Journal
, February 29, 2008.

29
.
Marcus Tullius Cicero,
De Officiis
, trans. Walter Miller (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1913), 76. The quotation, from book I, chapter 22, is variously
translated but the meaning is clear.

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