Hunt, Jr., the latter also the author of the book we’re dealing with here. The operation is absent from Webster’s New World Dictionary of the Vietnam War (1999) that Leepson edited with Helen Hannaford. (All comments are moderated: you will see it, but until it's approved no one else will.). Although Nick Turse (Kill Anything That Moves, 2013) tends, certainly in my view, to sometimes get carried away with himself and be seduced by the echo chamber of his own voice, too often forgetting that analysis should lead to the development of an interpretation and not the other way around, even a blind hog occasionally finds an acorn. [2], In October 1967 the Royal Thai Volunteer Regiment (Queen's Cobras) was sent to Camp Bearcat at Bien Hoa, to fight alongside the Americans, Australians, New Zealanders and South Vietnamese. The Division was re-activated at Fort Riley, Kansas and deployed to the III Corps Tactical Zone in Vietnam on December 16, 1966. • Sitemap Written by a U.S. Army Major General (Retired) this is just the sort of book that one would write if one were disposed towards putting a spin on things. Learn how your comment data is processed. The focus of Sharpening the Combat Edge is the use of analysis and the subsequent crunching of numbers to shape the way the command conducts operations. Hunt’s account reflects how the Viet-Nam War looked to someone lurking in a Command and Control (C&C) slick (what grunts called a UH-1 series helicopter on people-hauler duty, in other words not configured as a gunship) flying high enough to be out of range of small arms fire from the ground, or to the people in the briefing rooms of a Tactical Operations Center (TOC) lined with maps and graphs showing the enemy on the run. At the height of the war, almost 50,000 American military personnel were stationed in Thailand, mainly airmen. Of course, there is the possibility that Leepson is either unaware of SPEEDY EXPRESS or simply ignored it. Copyright 2017, Don Capps (speedreaders.info). But it is a problem when the numbers and the analysis processed at the command level diverge from the situation on the battlefield. As such, he was both one the proponents of SPEEDY EXPRESS and then one of the commanders responsible for its execution. Written by a U.S. Army Major General (Retired) this is just the sort of book that one would write if one were disposed towards putting a spin on things. All LRRPs from team leader and above were to be Ranger qualified. The Army had disbanded Ranger units after Korea, but kept the Ranger School, on the premise that spreading Ranger School graduates throughout the Army would improve overall performance. World Wars Magazine is a completely free online war history magazine covering all majors wars from Revolutionary Wars, WW1, WW2, to the more recent Gulf Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. This book is available on Amazon.com and Pen and Sword Publishing. After turning over command of the division to Major General Harris W. Hollis, Ewell, now a lieutenant general, served as the commander of the II Field Force, Vietnam, until April 1970.