Gregory Daddis: 3 books
Westmoreland's War
Reassessing American Strategy in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
General William C. Westmoreland has long been derided for his failed strategy of "attrition" in the Vietnam War. Historians have argued that Westmoreland's strategy placed a premium on high "body counts" through a "big unit war" that relied almost solely on search and destroy missions. Many believe...
Withdrawal
Reassessing America's Final Years in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
A "better war." Over the last two decades, this term has become synonymous with US strategy during the Vietnam War's final years. The narrative is enticingly simple, appealing to many audiences. After the disastrous results of the 1968 Tet offensive, in which Hanoi's forces demonstrated the failures...
No Sure Victory
Measuring U.S. Army Effectiveness and Progress in the Vietnam War
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Conventional wisdom holds that the US Army in Vietnam, thrust into an unconventional war where occupying terrain was a meaningless measure of success, depended on body counts as its sole measure of military progress. In No Sure Victory, Army officer and historian Gregory Daddis looks far deeper into...