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A collection of oral histories that reveals an aspect of the Vietnam War rarely written about: the select US Marine forces that lived and fought beside their Vietnamese counterparts in an effort to sabotage the Viet Cong infrastructure. Includes bandw photographs. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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Between 1965 and 1971 the Marines in Vietnam allocated 4% of their resources to an experimental effort that turned into one of the rare American successes of the war. The Combined Action Platoon (CAP) program was based on the belief that winning the support of the Vietnamese people was of primary importance. The CAP concept, duplicated in more than a hundred villages in I Corps, was a simple one: a squad of Marines plus a Navy corpsman joined forces with the local militia to protect villagers from the Vietcong, denying the latter recruits, food and intelligence. Hemingway here collects 27 oral histories by men who took part in the day-by-day pacification effort that included civic-action projects such as repairing bridges, digging wells and building schoolhouses, as well as patrols and ambushes. This little-known program, in which American fighting men were thrust into an alien culture to live, work, fight and die, has long deserved the objective analysis it receives here. Hemingway, senior editor of Vietnam magazine, offers the thought-provoking argument that the CAP concept could be successfully resurrected in low-intensity Third World conflicts. Photos. (May) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
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The Marine Combined Action Platoons in Vietnam were among the few American units that actually resided in the villages, working with their inhabitants and training the local Popular Force militia. This is the first full-scale oral history of a facet of the American Vietnam effort that was probably underused during the war and has been understudied since. The usual problems of oral history afflict this one--it fails to provide quite enough background information on the war (particularly its interservice politics) and the U.S. Marines for the general reader's comfort. But except for that typical shortcoming, this is a valuable addition to Vietnam conflict studies. It is, as well, a thought-provoking glimpse of a type of military operation that is being reconsidered for use in the post-cold war world. ~--Roland Green
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The Combined Action Program (CAP) was an effort by the US Marine Corps to win "hearts and minds" in South Vietnam. Marines worked alongside South Vietnamese peasants in an effort to build confidence in both the American military and the Saigon government. Guenther Lewy called this program "one of the most imaginative approaches to pacification" conducted during the war. Hemingway attempts to describe the successes and failures of the program through testimonials from CAP veterans. His effort, however, is disappointing. The testimonials are rambling, and there is little attempt to put them into context. With the sole exception of comments by Colonel William Corson, a harsh critic of General Westmoreland, most of the accounts are of little use. Many dwell on combat situations that could have occurred anywhere in Vietnam, and some meander into the postwar fate of the participants. In the end, the reader is left wondering what is "different" about what could have been an interesting study of an important experiment. D. R. Turner; Davis and Elkins College