No Sure Victory: Measuring U.S. Army Effectiveness and Progress in the Vietnam W

Description: No Sure Victory by Gregory A. Daddis Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Hardcover Condition Brand New Description Filled with incisive analysis and rich historical detail, No Sure Victory will be a valuable resource for Vietnam War historians and current military professionals alike. For students of military history, American history, and 20th-century political history, this book will provide a new take on the well-worn issue of determining the root cause of U.S. military failure in Vietnam. For the contemporary military or political official, No Sure Victory is a case study inunconventional warfare, a cautionary tale that will be an important guide to measuring performance in current and future armed conflict. Publisher Description 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 the Armys techniques for measuring military success and presents a much more complicated-and disturbing-account of the American misadventure in Indochina.Daddis shows how the US Army, which confronted an unfamiliar enemy and an even more unfamiliar form of warfare, adopted a massive, and eventually unmanageable, system of measurements andformulas to track the progress of military operations that ranged from pacification efforts to search-and-destroy missions. The Armys monthly "Measurement of Progress" reports covered innumerable aspects of the fighting in Vietnam-force ratios, Vietcong/North Vietnamese Army incidents, tactical air sorties, weapons losses, security of base areas and roads, population control, area control, and hamlet defenses. Concentrating more on data collection and less on data analysis, theseindiscriminate attempts to gauge success may actually have hindered the armys ability to evaluate the true outcome of the fight at hand--a roadblock that Daddis believes significantly contributed to the manyfailures that American forces suffered in Vietnam. Filled with incisive analysis and rich historical detail, No Sure Victory is not only a valuable case study in unconventional warfare, but a cautionary tale that offers important perspectives on how to measure performance in current and future armed conflict. Given Americas ongoing counterinsurgency efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan, No Sure Victory provides valuable historical perspective on how tomeasure--and mismeasure--military success. Author Biography Gregory A. Daddis is Academy Professor of History at the United States Military Academy, West Point, and a Colonel in the US Army. A West Point graduate, he has served in numerous army command and staff positions in the United States and overseas and is a veteran of both Operations Desert Storm and Iraqi Freedom. He is the author of Fighting in the Great Crusade: An 8th Infantry Artillery Officer in World War II. Details ISBN 0199746877 ISBN-13 9780199746873 Title No Sure Victory Author Gregory A. Daddis Format Hardcover Year 2011 Pages 368 Publisher Oxford University Press Inc GE_Item_ID:137013491; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. Please view eBay estimated delivery times at the top of the listing. Deliveries are made by either USPS or Courier. We are unable to deliver faster than stated. International deliveries will take 1-6 weeks. NOTE: We are unable to offer combined shipping for multiple items purchased. This is because our items are shipped from different locations. Returns If you wish to return an item, please consult our Returns Policy as below: Please contact Customer Services and request "Return Authorisation" before you send your item back to us. Unauthorised returns will not be accepted. Returns must be postmarked within 4 business days of authorisation and must be in resellable condition. Returns are shipped at the customer's risk. We cannot take responsibility for items which are lost or damaged in transit. For purchases where a shipping charge was paid, there will be no refund of the original shipping charge. Additional Questions If you have any questions please feel free to Contact Us. Categories Baby Books Electronics Fashion Games Health & Beauty Home, Garden & Pets Movies Music Sports & Outdoors Toys

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