It has been said that the only thing new in the world is the history you don't know. This Global War on Terrorism (GWOT) Occasional Paper (OP) is a timely reminder for the US Army about the history we do not know, or at least the history we do not know well. The Army has recently embarked on massive advisory missions with foreign militaries in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere around the globe. We are simultaneously engaged in a huge effort to learn how to conduct those missions for which we do not consistently prepare. Mr. Robert Ramsey's historical study examines three cases in which the US Army has performed this same mission in the last half of the 20th century. In Korea during the 1950s, in Vietnam in the 1960s and 1970s, and in El Salvador in the 1980s the Army was tasked to build and advise host nation armies during a time of war. The author makes several key arguments about the lessons the Army thought it learned at the time. Among the key points Mr. Ramsey makes are the need for US advisors to have extensive language and cultural training, the lesser importance for them of technical and tactical skills training, and the need to adapt US organizational concepts, training techniques, and tactics to local conditions. Accordingly, he also notes the great importance of the host nation's leadership buying into and actively supporting the development of a performance-based selection, training, and promotion system. To its credit, the institutional Army learned these hard lessons, from successes and failures, during and after each of the cases examined in this study. However, they were often forgotten as the Army prepared for the next major conventional conflict. These lessons are still important and relevant today. In fact, prior to its publication the conclusions of this study were delivered by the author to several of the Army's current advisory training task forces.
This manuscript describes how US military advisors prepare for and conduct operations in war. Through two separate year-long combat tours as a military advisor in Iraq, the author brings true vignettes into modern military strategy and operational art. Further, the author provides multiple perspectives in command relationships. Through years of personal experience, direct interviews, and Warfighting knowledge, the author challenges conventionally accepted truths and establishes a new standard for understanding the impact of American advisors on the modern battleground.
In 1892, John Elliott Tappan, a twenty-four year old Minneapolis lawyer, was worried how people saved their money. Out of these concerns, Investors Syndicate was born, one of the first of a new type of financial institution designed to meet the savings needs of the average person. Here is the story of this financial pioneer, whose innovation has today grown into one of the nation's largest financial services companies, American Express Financial Advisors. The book draws on Tappan's diaries, business correspondence, and various family oral histories. Tappan's life, work and ideas chronicle the changes in spending and savings, work and leisure, the culture of politics and money, that have given rise to our modern notions of consumer finance.
Bright Quang is a Vietnamese American poet, sculptor, writer, and prisoner of war. He came to the United States on November 22, 1993. He keeps up the respectful faiths and the just cause when he loves literature and art more than everything in his life, just because art is long-lasting, and power is short. Therefore, he falls in love with literature and avoids inhuman wars. In fact, the amoral wars not only deprived him of the rights to life of innocent humankind but also trampled their human dignity to mud. The Vietnam War murdered three million innocent people. One legal government by the Vietnamese people voted and sold off the Vietnam Armed Forces to Mainland China, which have three million astute troops, and sent to jail one million Southern officers. And three hundred thousand Southern officers were killed without being sentenced. His fatherland had been destroyed for the natural resources and environment by the toxic chemicals. Significantly, his literature is mightier than the amoral war as it has altered his super sublime to enslaved guy. As a result, he must keep up the modern civilization of the world when he stood up with his strong legs and his sublime energy. Even good, Bright Quang has been published eighteen books in the English language. He has exhibited many pieces of artwork seven times in the US after he graduated with a bachelor in art and two years of nonprofit management. This accordance with a superpower, modern, civilized, and progressive let him struggle for justice as a prisoner of war because wisdom must win the inhuman war. The better struggle for equality rather than make an enslaved artist by the discrimination and racism in the United States of America. Justice for Vietnam by Bright Quang. He struggles for justice as a prisoner of war. Just because the unjust laws are to be the self-evident truths of constitutional rights, the use of the greatest power deprives of the rights to the life of innocent humankind without having regrets. Significantly, the insensitivity of the superpower America not only robbed the other sacred foreign sovereignty the Republic of Vietnam but also had the lack of ethical consciences has trampled down the weakest people to satisfy their belligerent aggressions. Despite this, this powerful nation has not respected to express the right religions, but they have used figures of religion as a powerful expression of their sublime's powers. His wisdom struggles to conquer the delusive laws while a modern civilization expresses a play on a trick in the laws. Obviously, all the laws of a superpower America have been enacted for the Vietnam War, which is why a great power has not enforced any laws. When great power America not only abused the laws to bully a weak nation but also trampled the sovereignty and self-determination of a small country like the Republic of Vietnam down. In this event, the laws of great power America are expressed belligerent by inhumanity and amorality without having been enforced for justice cause. So the respectfulness of the laws is lost by the chicanery policy or so-called the sick of the US have against society. The super values of the law are clarified by the justice cause if the law has not been enforced thoroughly. We would call the unjust laws of the superpower America. Therefore, we the people should fight for justice as civilized citizens because the law is logically symbolized by the rule of law without a dictatorship. Furthermore, the law is equally expressed by the honor, human dignity, and constitution of the people's race and the nation and people not deprived. As a result, the law is the law. Finally, when a great power has enacted unjust law to become the constitutional rights, so superpower American does not represent a modern, civilized, and progressive society. Of course, superpower and modern civilization America not esteemed law oneself but also discriminated against human beings in all without having regretted, which is why the government of the United States of America proudly deprived the rights to life of mankind as the Southern Army Forces. Bright Quang has composed eighteen books while being a poet, sculptor, and painter. He struggles for justice as a prisoner of war of proxy war America in the Republic of Vietnam without having compensated for prisoner of war when the US Congress enacted HR 7885 Pub. L. 88-205, approved December 16, 1963, to occupy his country. And after then, the US sold the Republic of Vietnam for socialism by the core of interests. While he came to the US on November 23, 1993, graduated with a bachelor's degree in art, and earned nonprofit management in CSU Hayward, East Bay. As a result, the rest of his life fights for justice because justice is the same as oxygen for humans alive is peaceful as demagogy has against the justice of the unjust law of the US has become the constitutional rights. His wisdom must struggle for justice without having had fearless.
Vietnam-1965. American Advisors are sent to assist the South Vietnamese Army in its war against communist aggression. One man-Captain Macarthur Steele leads his BCAT (Battalion Combat Assistance Team) into the fierce fighting of enemy controlled jungles and villages. You are there as American Advisors-called COVAN MY by the Vietnamese who need them-perform search and destroy missions, and helicopter assaults, in their effort to liberate the oppressed peoples. Grab your helmet and rifle, because you've just been drafted-to read this gritty, fast-paced tale of wartime heroism and valor!
A New York Times Notable Book Winner of 2022 Lionel Gelber Prize The first authoritative history of American's longest war by one of the world's leading scholar-practitioners. The American war in Afghanistan, which began in 2001, is now the longest armed conflict in the nation's history. It is currently winding down, and American troops are likely to leave soon but only after a stay of nearly two decades. In The American War in Afghanistan, Carter Malkasian provides the first comprehensive history of the entire conflict. Malkasian is both a leading academic authority on the subject and an experienced practitioner, having spent nearly two years working in the Afghan countryside and going on to serve as the senior advisor to General Joseph Dunford, the US military commander in Afghanistan and later the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. Drawing from a deep well of local knowledge, understanding of Pashto, and review of primary source documents, Malkasian moves through the war's multiple phases: the 2001 invasion and after; the light American footprint during the 2003 Iraq invasion; the resurgence of the Taliban in 2006, the Obama-era surge, and the various resets in strategy and force allocations that occurred from 2011 onward, culminating in the 2018-2020 peace talks. Malkasian lived through much of it, and draws from his own experiences to provide a unique vantage point on the war. Today, the Taliban is the most powerful faction, and sees victory as probable. The ultimate outcome after America leaves is inherently unpredictable given the multitude of actors there, but one thing is sure: the war did not go as America had hoped. Although the al-Qa'eda leader Osama bin Laden was killed and no major attack on the American homeland was carried out after 2001, the United States was unable to end the violence or hand off the war to the Afghan authorities, which could not survive without US military backing. The American War in Afghanistan explains why the war had such a disappointing outcome. Wise and all-encompassing, The American War in Afghanistan provides a truly vivid portrait of the conflict in all of its phases that will remain the authoritative account for years to come.
Some of the most active debate about the Vietnam War today is prompted by those who believe that the United States could have won the war either through an improved military strategy or through more.
In Cold War in Universities: U.S. and Soviet Cultural Diplomacy, 1945–1990 Natalia Tsvetkova offers an account of how professors and students restrained the Americanization or Sovietization of their national universities around the world during the Cold War.
