by Lewis Sorley
Schwarzkopf, H. Norman. It Doesn't Take a Hero: The Autobiography. New York: Bantam Books, 1992.
Shapley, Deborah. Promise and Power: The Life and Times of Robert McNamara. Boston: Little, Brown, 1993.
Sharp, U. S. Grant. Strategy for Defeat: Vietnam in Retrospect. San Rafael, Calif.: Presidio Press, 1978.
Showalter, Dennis E., and John G. Albert, eds. An American Dilemma: Vietnam, 1964–1973. Chicago: Imprint Publications, 1993.
Shulimson, Jack. U.S. Marines in Vietnam: An Expanding War, 1966. Washington, D.C.: History and Museums Division, Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps, 1982.
——— et al. U.S. Marines in Vietnam: The Defining Year, 1968. Washington, D.C.: History and Museums Division, Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps, 1997.
——— and Major Charles M. Johnson. U.S. Marines in Vietnam: The Landing and the Buildup 1965. Washington, D.C.: History and Museums Division, Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps, 1978.
Simpson, Charles M., III. Inside the Green Berets: The First Thirty Years: A History of the U.S. Army Special Forces. New York: Berkley Books, 1984.
Smith, Charles R. U.S. Marines in Vietnam: High Mobility and Standdown 1969. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Marine Corps, 1988.
Sorley, Lewis. A Better War: The Unexamined Victories and Final Tragedy of America's Last Years in Vietnam. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1999.
———. Honorable Warrior: General Harold K. Johnson and the Ethics of Command. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998.
———, ed. Press On! Selected Works of General Donn A. Starry, 2 vols. Fort Leavenworth, Kans.: Combat Studies Institute Press, 2009.
———, ed. Vietnam Chronicles: The Abrams Tapes, 1968–1972. Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2004.
Spiller, Roger. An Instinct for War: Scenes from the Battlefields of History. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2005.
———. In the School of War. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2010.
Stanton, Shelby L. The 1st Cav in Vietnam: Anatomy of a Division. Novato, Calif.: Presidio Press, 1999. Paperback. First published 1987.
Starry, Donn A. Mounted Combat in Vietnam. Washington, D.C.: Department of the Army, 1978. Reprinted commercially as Armored Combat in Vietnam (New York: Arno Press, 1980).
Taylor, John M. General Maxwell Taylor: The Sword and the Pen. New York: Doubleday, 1989.
Taylor, Maxwell D. Swords and Plowshares: A Memoir. New York: W. W. Norton, 1972.
Thi, Lam Quang. The Twenty-Five Year Century: A South Vietnamese General Remembers. Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2001.
Thompson, Annis G. The Greatest Airlift: The Story of Combat Cargo. Tokyo: Dai-Nippon Printing, 1954.
Tucker, Spencer C., ed. Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War: A Political, Social, and Military History. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, 1998.
Van Atta, Dale. With Honor: Melvin Laird in War, Peace, and Politics. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2008.
Wallace, Mike. Between You and Me: A Memoir. New York: Hyperion, 2005.
Waterhouse, Fred J., with Colonel Bill Weber. The Rakkasans, 2nd ed. Paducah, Ky.: Turner Publishing Company, 1997.
Wells, Tom. The War Within: America's Battle over Vietnam. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.
Westmoreland, William C. A Soldier Reports. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1976.
Whitehouse, Charles'S. Then and Now: Memoirs of C. S. Whitehouse. Marshall, Va.: privately printed, 2001.
Willenson, Kim, et al. The Bad War: An Oral History of the Vietnam War. New York: New American Library, 1987.
Zaffiri, Samuel. Westmoreland: A Biography of General William C. Westmoreland. New York: William Morrow, 1994.
BOOK CHAPTERS
MacDonald, Charles B. "The Military Build-Up in North and South," in Ray Bonds, ed., The Vietnam War: The Illustrated History of the Conflict in Southeast Asia. New York: Crown, 1979.
Moskos, Charles C., Jr. "The Enlisted Ranks," in John B. Keeley, ed., The All-Volunteer Force and American Society. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1978.
ARTICLES
Atkeson, Edward B. "Vietnam Examination Is Not a Closed Book," Army (August 1995), pp. 11–16.
Boroff, David. "West Point: Ancient Incubator for a New Breed," Harper's (December 1962), pp. 51–59.
Braestrup, Peter. "Covering the Vietnam War," Nieman Reports (December 1969), pp. 8–13.
———. "'The Uncounted Enemy: A Vietnam Deception': A Dissenting View," Washington Journalism Review (April 1982), pp. 46–48.
———. "Vietnam as History," Wilson Quarterly (Spring 1978), pp. 178–187.
Brower, Charles F., IV. "Strategic Reassessment in Vietnam: The Westmoreland 'Alternate Strategy' of 1967–1968," Naval War College Review (Spring 1991), pp. 20–51.
Buckingham, Clay T. "Ethics and the Senior Officer: Institutional Tensions," Parameters (Autumn 1985), pp. 23–32.
Bui Tin. "How North Vietnam Won the War," Wall Street Journal (3 August 1995). Interview by Stephen Young.
Butler, Jack R. "The All-Volunteer Armed Force—Its Feasibility and Implications," Parameters (Vol. II, No. 1, 1972), pp. 17–29.
Cole, Bernard D. "A Noglow in Vietnam, 1968: Air Power at the Battle of Khe Sanh," Journal of Military History (January 2000), pp. 141–158.
DePuy, General William E. "Our Experience in Vietnam," Army (June 1987), pp. 28–41.
———. "Vietnam: What We Might Have Done and Why We Didn't Do It," Army (February 1986), pp. 22–40.
Flanagan, E. M., Jr., "Before the Battle: Commanding: A New Perspective," Army (July 1993), pp. 49–50.
Henry, John B., II. "February, 1968," Foreign Policy (Fall 1971), pp. 2–33.
Lewy, Guenter. "Vietnam: New Light on the Question of American Guilt," Commentary (February 1978), pp. 29–47.
Lock-Pullan, Richard. "'An Inward Looking Time': The United States Army, 1973–1976," Journal of Military History (April 2003), pp. 483–511.
McGinniss, Joe. "Winning Hearts and Minds in South Carolina," Harper's (April 1974), pp. 65–72.
McMaster, H. R. "Dereliction of Duty," Air Force Magazine (January 1998), pp. 70–73.
Millett, Allan R. "Why the Army and the Marine Corps Should Be Friends," Parameters (Winter 1994–1995), pp. 30–40.
Mueller, John E. "The Search for the 'Breaking Point' in Vietnam," International Studies Quarterly (December 1980), pp. 497–519.
North, Don. "VC Assault on the U.S. Embassy," Vietnam (February 2000), pp. 38–47, 72.
Palmer, Laura. "The General, at Ease: An Interview with Westmoreland," MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History (Autumn 1988), pp. 30–35.
Perry, Mark. "The Resurrection of John Paul Vann," Veteran (July 1988), pp. 31–32.
Pribbenow, Merle L., II. "General Vo Nguyen Giap and the Mysterious Evolution of the Plan for the 1968 Tet Offensive," Journal of Vietnamese Studies (Vol. 3, Issue 2), pp. 1–33.
Raughter, John. "The Inevitable General," American Legion Magazine (September 2003), pp. 16–18.
Shaw, Donald P., and Zane E. Finkelstein. "Westmoreland vs. CBS," Commentary (August 1984), pp. 31–37.
Shulimson, Jack, and Edward F. Wells. "First In, First Out," Marine Corps Gazette (January 1984), pp. 36–46.
Summers, Harry G., Jr. "Troops to Equal Any: Interview of General Fred C. Weyand," Vietnam (February 1988), pp. 21–25.
Westmoreland, William C. "A Case for Press Responsibility," Mercer Law Review (Spring 1987), pp. 771–777.
———. "Riding to Battle," Army (April 1993), pp. 43–44.
———. "Vietnam in Perspective," Military Review (January 1979), pp. 34–43.
Wieland, Valerie. "The Inevitable General," Vietnam (December 2003), pp. 34–41, 64. Interview of General William C. Westmoreland.
PAMPHLETS AND STUDIES
Collins, James Lawton, Jr. The Development and Training of the South Vietnamese Army, 1950–1972. Vietnam Studies. Washington, D.C.: Department of the Army, 1975.
Doughty, Robert A. The Evolution of US Army Tactical Doctrine, 1946–76. Leavenworth Papers #1. Fort Leavenworth, Kans.: Combat Studies Institute, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, August 1979.
Hinh, Nguyen Duy. Vietnamization and the Cease-Fire. Indochina Monograph. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Army Center of Military History, 1980.
Joint Chiefs of Staff, Organization of. Intensification of the Military Operations in Vietnam: Concept and Appraisal. Report of Ad Hoc Study Group. Washington, D.C.: OJCS, 14 July 1965.
Khuyen, Dong Van. RVNAF Logistics. Indochina Monograph. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Army Center of Military History, 1980.
Lung, Hoang Ngoc. The General Offensives of 1968–69. Indochina Monograph. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Army Center of Military History, 1981.
———. Strategy and Tactics. Indochina Monograph. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Army Center of Military History, 1980.
McChristian, Joseph A. The Role of Intelligence, 1965–1967. Vietnam Studies. Washington, D.C.: Department of the Army, 1974.
Palmer, Bruce, Jr. "US Intelligence and Vietnam," Studies in Intelligence (Special Issue). Washington, D.C.: Central Intelligence Agency, 1984.
Palmer, Dave Richard. Readings in Current Military History. West Point, N.Y.: USMA Department of Military Art and Engineering, 1969.
Pike, Douglas. "A Look Back at the Vietnam War: The View from Hanoi." Paper written for the Vietnam War Symposium, Wilson Center, Washington, D.C., 7–8 January 1983.
———. Vietnam War: View from the Other Side. Saigon: U.S. Information Service, December 1967.
Rosson, W. B. Assessment of Influence Exerted on Military Operations by Other Than Military Considerations. Headquarters, U.S. Army Pacific, 1970. Published Washington, D.C.: U.S. Army Center of Military History, 1993.
Schlight, John, ed. Second Indochina War Symposium: Papers and Commentary. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Army Center of Military History, 1986.
Tolson, John J. Airmobility 1961–1971. Vietnam Studies. Washington, D.C.: Department of the Army, 1973.
Truong, Ngo Quang. RVNAF and US Operational Cooperation and Coordination. Indochina Monograph. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Army Center of Military History, 1980.
———. Territorial Forces. Indochina Monograph. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Army Center of Military History, 1978.
Vien, Cao Van, and Dong Van Khuyen. Reflections on the Vietnam War. Indochina Monograph. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Army Center of Military History, 1980.
DOCUMENTS
BDM Corporation. A Study of Strategic Lessons Learned in Vietnam: Omnibus Executive Summary. McLean, Va.: BDM Corporation, 1980.
Department of the Army. Historical Summary: Fiscal Year 1970. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Army Center of Military History, 1973.
Gibbons, William Conrad, ed. The U.S. Government and the Vietnam War: Executive and Legislative Roles and Relationships, Parts I–IV. Washington, D.C.: Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress, 1984–1994.
Gittinger, Ted, ed. The Johnson Years: A Vietnam Roundtable. Austin, Tex.: Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, 1993.
Hitler's Nemesis: The 9th Infantry Division. Paris: Stars & Stripes, 1944–1945.
Joint Chiefs of Staff. The History of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: The Joint Chiefs of Staff and the War in Vietnam, 1960–1968, Parts I–III. Washington, D.C.: Historical Division, Joint Secretariat, Joint Chiefs of Staff, various dates.
———. The History of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: The Joint Chiefs of Staff and the War in Vietnam, 1969–1970. Washington, D.C.: Historical Division, Joint Secretariat, Joint Chiefs of Staff, 26 April 1976.
MacDonald, Charles B. An Outline History of U.S. Policy toward Vietnam. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Army Center of Military History, April 1978.
Military Assistance Command, Vietnam. MACV Command History 1967. Headquarters, USMACV, 16 September 1968.
New York Times. The Pentagon Papers as Published by The New York Times. New York: Quadrangle Books, 1971.
Official Register of the Officers and Cadets, United States Military Academy for the Academic Year Ending June 30, 1933. West Point, N.Y.: USMA Printing Office, 1933. Also for other years.
The Pentagon Papers: The Defense Department History of United States Decisionmaking on Vietnam. Senator Gravel Edition. 5 vols. Boston: Beacon Press, 1971.
Pike, Douglas, ed. The Bunker Papers: Reports to the President from Vietnam, 1967–1973. 3 vols. Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, 1990.
PROVN Study (Program for the Pacification and Long-Term Development of Vietnam). Washington, D.C.: Department of the Army, 1 March 1966.
Royal United Service Institution. Lessons from the Vietnam War. Whitehall: RUSI, 12 February 1969.
Sharp, U.S.G., and W. C. Westmoreland. Report on the War in Vietnam. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1969.
U.S. Army Center of Military History. Department of the Army Historical Summary, Fiscal Year 1972. Washington, D.C.: CMH, 1974. And other years.
U.S. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Report of the Special Subcommittee on the M-16 Rifle Program, 19 October 1967. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1967.
———. Report by the Special Subcommittee on the M-16 Rifle Program, 26 September 1968. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1968.
U.S. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Vietnam: Policy and Prospects, 1970. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1970.
U.S. Military Academy. Official Register of the Officers and Cadets, United States Military Academy for 1936. West Point: USMA, 1936. Also other years.
U.S. Military Assistance Command, Vietnam. MACV Order of Battle Reference Manual. Headquarters, USMACV OACSI, 12 February 1967.
Vietnam, A Documentary Collection: Westmoreland v. CBS. New York: Clearwater Publishing, 1985. Microform.
Westmoreland, William C. "Plaintiff General William C. Westmoreland's Memorandum of Law in Opposition to Defendant CBS's Motion to Dismiss and for Summary Judgment." United States District Court, Southern District of New York, 20 July 1984.
———. Report of the Chief of Staff of the United States Army, 1 July 1968 to 30 June 1972. Washington, D.C.: Department of the Army, 1977.
West Point Association of Graduates. 2000 Register of Graduates and Former Cadets. West Point, N.Y.: Association of Graduates, 2000. Also other years.
West Point Class of 1936. The Howitzer. West Point, N.Y.: Class of 1936, 1936. Also other years.
UNPUBLISHED MATERIALS
Benjamin, Burton. "An Examination," 8 July 1982. Internal CBS evaluation of the CBS Reports program "The Uncounted Enemy: A Vietnam Deception."
Bernard, Carl. "The War in Vietnam: Observations and Reflections of a Province Senior Advisor." Mimeograph, October 1969.
Bradford, Zeb B., Jr. "A Memoir of the Tet Offensive." Draft manuscript.
———. "Perfume River: A Vietnam Memoir." Unpublished manuscript, 13 May 1997.
Bunker, Ellsworth. "Lost Victory." Unpublished draft book manuscript.
———. Oral history transcript. Interviewed by Stephen Young.
Chaisson, John R. Letters to his wife. Hoover Institution Archives, Stanford University.
Cubbage, T. L., II. "Westmoreland vs. CBS: Was Intelligence Corrupted by Policy Demands?" Paper presented at the Second USAWC Conference on Intelligence and Military Operations, Carlisle Barracks, Pa., May 1987.
Hamilton, Andrew. "The 'Uncounted Enemy' in Vietnam: A Reconsideration."
Kinnard, Douglas. "Adventures in Two Worlds." Unpublished draft memoir.
———. "The War Managers Revisited." Unpublished book chapter.
MacDonald, Charles. "Contrasts in Command: Vietnam—Westmoreland and Abrams," U.S. Army War College Remarks, 17 May 1976. Recording, Audio-Visual Collection, U.S. Army Military History Institute, Carlisle Barracks, Pa.
Nye, Colonel Roger H. "The Inadvertent Demise of the Traditional Academy, 1945–1995."
Rosson
, William B. "Four Periods of American Involvement in Vietnam: Development and Implementation of Policy, Strategy and Programs, Described and Analyzed on the Basis of Service Experience at Progressively Senior Levels." Unpublished doctoral dissertation, New College, Oxford Trinity, 1979.
Salet, Eugene. Unpublished memoir, MHI.
Scoville, Thomas W., and Charles B. MacDonald. "Interview with Ambassador Robert W. Komer and Colonel Robert M. Montague," 6–7 November 1969. Typescript ms. Office of the Chief of Military History, Department of the Army.
Todd, W. Russell "Vietnam."
Westmoreland, William C. "The Origins of the Post-Tet 1968 Plans for Additional American Forces in RVN." Unpublished paper, April 1970. White Paper prepared for Westmoreland by Major Paul L. Miles Jr.
Weyand, Frederick C. "Notes on Vietnam Experience." Typescript.
Williamson, Ellis W. Unpublished memoir.
OTHER SOURCES
Interviews Conducted
Honorable Stephen Ailes; Lieutenant General Elmer H. Almquist Jr.; Brigadier General James L. Anderson; Colonel Reamer W. Argo; Major General Gordon H. Austin; Lieutenant General Charles W. Bagnal; Patsy Bagnal; Lee Bandy; Colonel James Barbara; Major General Edward Bautz; Lieutenant General Robert Beckel (USAF); Keyes Beech; General Donald V. Bennett; Lieutenant General Sidney B. Berry; Betty Wheeler Besson; Tony Bliss Jr.; Claire Boatwright; Brigadier General Zeb B. Bradford Jr.; General Arthur E. Brown Jr.; Lieutenant General Frederic J. Brown III; Major General Clay T. Buckingham; Kevin Buckley; Major General Larry D. Budge; Colonel Victor T. Bullock; Lieutenant General William'S. Carpenter Jr.; Brigadier General Lawrence H. Caruthers Jr.; Colonel Edward Gustave Aaron Chalgren Jr.; General Ferdinand J. Chesarek; Lieutenant General Richard A. Chilcoat; Margaret Westmoreland Clarkson; Lieutenant General Charles G. Cleveland (USAF); Colonel William F. Cody; Colonel Robert M. Cook; George Crile; Lieutenant General John Crosby; Lieutenant General John H. Cushman; Lieutenant General Phillip B. Davidson Jr.; General Michael'S. Davison; Dr. Edwin A. Deagle Jr.; Vincent H. Demma; General William E. DePuy; Colonel Roger Donlon; Lieutenant General David K. Doyle; Brigadier General Karl W. Eikenberry; Major General James N. Ellis; Daniel Ellsberg; Colonel Charles Endress; Lieutenant General Julian J. Ewell; Lieutenant Colonel Robert Finkenaur; Colonel Zane E. Finkelstein; Lieutenant General Edward M. Flanagan Jr.; Lieutenant General Eugene P. Forrester; General John W. Foss; Honorable Robert Froehlke; Ernest B. Furgurson; Brigadier General Gerald E. Galloway Jr.; General John R. Galvin; Major General George A. Godding; General Andrew J. Goodpaster; General Paul F. Gorman; Brigadier General Michael J. L. Greene; General Wallace M. Greene Jr. (USMC); Colonel William Greynolds; Lieutenant General Thomas N. Griffin Jr.; Dr. Alan Gropman; Colonel David Hackworth; Arthur T. Hadley; General Ralph E. Haines Jr.; David Halberstam; Brigadier General Ed Y. Hall (S.C. State Guard); Richard Halloran; Andrew Hamilton; Colonel Franklin A. Hart; Herbert Hartsook; Brigadier General James A. Herbert; Colonel Morris J. Herbert; Seymour Hersh; Honorable Martin R. Hoffmann; Brigadier General Elizabeth P. Hoisington; Ambassador Richard C. Holbrooke; Ambassador John H. Holdridge; Christopher Holmes; Brigadier General Weldon F. Honeycutt; Colonel George D. Jacobson; Brigadier General Amos A. Jordan Jr.; Lieutenant General James G. Kalergis; General Donald R. Keith; General Walter T. Kerwin Jr.; Brigadier General Douglas Kinnard; Lieutenant General Harry W. O. Kinnard; General William A. Knowlton; Ambassador Robert W. Komer; Richard D. Kovar; Dr. Fritz G. A. Kraemer; General Frederick J. Kroesen; Lieutenant Colonel Charles A. Krohn; Honorable Melvin R. Laird; Ambassador William Leonhart; General William J. Livsey; Colonel Donald'S. Marshall; Colonel Lloyd J. Matthews; George McArthur; Lieutenant General William J. McCaffrey; Major General Joseph A. McChristian; Colonel Robert B. McCue; Frank McCullough; Ambassador Clay McManaway; Honorable Robert'S. McNamara; Lieutenant General John B. McPherson (USAF); John Merriam; General Edward C. Meyer; Lieutenant Colonel Michael D. Mierau; General Frank T. Mildren; Colonel Paul Miles; Brigadier General Robert M. Montague Jr.; Chief Warrant Officer 2 Charlie M. Montgomery Jr.; Admiral Thomas H. Moorer (USN); Colonel George Morgan; Captain William McG. Morrison (USNR); Dr. Charles Moskos; Lieutenant General John Norton; Walter M. Oates; General Joseph T. Palastra Jr.; General Bruce Palmer Jr.; Lieutenant General Dave R. Palmer; Rufus C. Phillips III; Dr. Douglas Pike; Lieutenant General Beverley E. Powell; Lieutenant General Robert E. Pursley (USAF); Charles D. Ravenel; Honorable Stanley R. Resor; Elisabeth Robe; General William B. Rosson; Walt Rostow; Lieutenant General Edward L. Rowny; Dr. Herbert Y. Schandler; Benjamin F. Schemmer; Dr. James R. Schlesinger; Colonel Fred B. Schoomaker; Lieutenant General Robert L. Schweitzer; Major General John O. B. Sewell; Colonel Donald P. Shaw; William Seth Shepard; Major General Winant Sidle; Lieutenant General Charles J. Simmons; Major General John K. Singlaub; Colonel Kenneth V. Smith; Dr. Don M. Snider; General Donn A. Starry; Major General William B. Steele; General Richard G. Stilwell; Major General Adrian St. John II; Lieutenant General Orwin C. Talbott; Lieutenant General Herbert R. Temple Jr.; General Maxwell R. Thurman; Lieutenant General Ngo Quang Truong (ARVN); Lieutenant General Walter F. Ulmer Jr.; Colonel Carl C. Ulsaker; Sergeant Major of the Army Leon L. Van Autreve; Honorable Cyrus R. Vance; Lieutenant General Dale A. Vesser; Colonel John H. VonDerBruegge; General Sam W. Walker; General Volney F. Warner; James R. Westmoreland; General William C. Westmoreland; General Frederick C. Weyand; Blair Weymouth; Ambassador Charles Whitehouse; Nils F. Wikner; Major General Ellis W. Williamson; George Wilson; Major General Stephen R. Woods; John Lawrence Worrall; Lieutenant General William P. Yarborough; Stephen B. Young; Barry Zorthian.