Summary of Tony Geraghty's Black Ops

Everest Media

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 For years, the Vietnam War was the alpha and omega of Special Operations Forces, until the strategy failed and Special Forces units were relegated to obscurity for nearly two decades.
#2 The Vietnam War was fought between America and Vietnam, and the American sacrificed an average of 5,800 lives every year for a decade. The Afghans were fierce fighters, but they were still unsophisticated warriors.
#3 The French were defeated by the Vietminh at Dien Bien Phu in 1954. The French were then divided into two political entities at a Geneva peace conference. Though a dividing line was drawn on the 17th parallel, it meant little in practice for months, during which time thousands of refugees and agents of various sorts moved north or south and back again.
#4 In 1955, a team of Saigon Military Mission officers supported by CIA and Air Force personnel worked to build an anti-communist resistance movement in North Vietnam. They smuggled into North Vietnam 8. 5 tons of materiel, including fourteen agent radios, 300 carbines, 90,000 rounds of carbine ammunition, and fifty pistols.

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• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 22 mars 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669357261
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

For years, the Vietnam War was the alpha and omega of Special Operations Forces, until the strategy failed and Special Forces units were relegated to obscurity for nearly two decades.

#2

The Vietnam War was fought between America and Vietnam, and the American sacrificed an average of 5,800 lives every year for a decade. The Afghans were fierce fighters, but they were still unsophisticated warriors.

#3

The French were defeated by the Vietminh at Dien Bien Phu in 1954. The French were then divided into two political entities at a Geneva peace conference. Though a dividing line was drawn on the 17th parallel, it meant little in practice for months, during which time thousands of refugees and agents of various sorts moved north or south and back again.

#4

In 1955, a team of Saigon Military Mission officers supported by CIA and Air Force personnel worked to build an anti-communist resistance movement in North Vietnam. They smuggled into North Vietnam 8. 5 tons of materiel, including fourteen agent radios, 300 carbines, 90,000 rounds of carbine ammunition, and fifty pistols.

#5

The North’s subversion of the South was the main reason why a majority of South Vietnamese citizens were against the Geneva Agreement. The North’s allies in alienating a majority in the South were Ngo Dinh Diem, an American puppet elected president in a rigged referendum, and Diem’s supporters.

#6

As the stability of Vietnam cracked, then disintegrated over the next eighteen months, the role of U. S. Special Forces increased. They were used to train and support local irregulars, and they were also deployed elsewhere.

#7

In late 1961, the U. S. Mission in Saigon assigned Special Forces teams to train irregulars drawn from minority groups to defend their own villages. The villages were fortified and defended by civilian volunteers.

#8

The Montagnard program was a successful Green Beret experiment at Buon Enao village in the Central Highlands. It was handed over to Vietnamese soldiers in 1963, but the transfer failed when the Vietnamese government attempted to reclaim weapons issued to the Montagnards. In September 1964, Montagnard resentment exploded in an armed uprising.

#9

The camps were being overrun by the VC, and the American Special Forces advisers were extremely vulnerable. The camps’ isolation after nightfall was a weakness exploited by the VC, as they could attack without fear of being attacked themselves.

#10

The 883rd Company was eventually saved, but it took a lot of effort. MSG Waugh was eventually saved, but he was wounded four times in his right foot.

#11

The murder of President Kennedy led to the inauguration of Lyndon B. Johnson, who launched a new aggressive strategy in Vietnam that drew 500,000 conventional U. S. troops into the war. The Pentagon Papers revealed that three days after Kennedy’s assassination, the Joint Chiefs of Staff proposed a twelve-month covert offensive in North Vietnam.

#12

The first American to be killed in the struggle against signals intelligence was a cryptologist named James T. Davis, from Tennessee, who was hunting Vietcong guerrillas in undergrowth near Saigon using handheld direction-finding gear.

#13

The Tonkin Gulf Resolution, which gave the president the authority to take all necessary measures to prevent further aggression, was passed on 7 August. President Johnson later claimed that the resolution gave him the authority to escalate the war in 1965.

#14

The American military began to send more and more conventional troops to Vietnam in 1966. The Pentagon had plans to call up reservists.

#15

The mobile strike forces were a group of soldiers tasked with conducting intelligence-gathering recce missions, raiding enemy camps, mining roads, ambushing convoys, and directing air strikes. They were unacknowledged, but it is likely that they also conducted silent killing.

#16

The U. S. Air Force had made limited raids on Cambodia for four years before the bombing offensive of 1969. But the escalation in March 1969 was a step-change, a response to the North’s shelling of Saigon in February.

#17

The attacks on Cambodian soil were effective, and the end game was reached with Vietnamization in 1970, when 14,534 tribal guerrillas of the Civilian Irregular Defense Group were absorbed into the regular Vietnamese Army as Ranger battalions.

#18

The SOG was a task force made up of adventurous spirits from the CIA’s Special Activities Division, SEALS, U. S. Air Force, Green Berets, and Vietnamese Special Forces. It was tasked with capturing enemy agents in Vietnam and Laos, and sending them back to their countries. But they were often captured by their enemies, and the information they sent back was false.

#19