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The Future-War Literature of the Reagan Era—Winning World War III in Fiction
Get PDFDuring the Reagan era, fiction about a hypothetical World War III was generally popular among the book-buying public, but a few authors actually influenced national-security matters by shining a light on particular topics, forcing discussions on particular issues, and giving ideas to those in power
In the Service of Pharaoh? The United States and the Deployment of Korean Troops in Vietnam, 1965-1968
Get PDFBrute: The Life of Victor Krulak, U.S. Marine
Get PDFVictor “Brute” Krulak is a legend within the U.S. Marine Corps. That may be a cliché, but it is true. This reviewer personally witnessed this phenomenon at the Naval War College, in Newport, Rhode Island, nearly four decades after Krulak left the service. While delivering a lecture at the College, I flashed a pic- ture of Krulak on the screen. Instantly, audience members began to call out Krulak’s nickname—“Brute! Brute!” The fact that Krulak’s son became Commandant of the Corps only en- hanced his reputation. The funny thing about Krulak’s being so admired is that he never held a major combat command as a general officer. He was brave, and he won hero medals in World War II, including the Navy Cross, but as a general during the Vietnam War he was in Hawaii instead of in country. Flag and general officers usually need to be combat leaders during a war to reach iconic status
The Forgotten Army: The Republic of Korea Forces’ Conduct in the Vietnam War, 1965 – 1973
Get PDFSouth Korean participation in the Vietnam War (1964-1973) is like the United States’ endeavors in the Korean War (1950-1953), namely both became soon-forgotten wars. Based on bilingual research in the U.S. and South Korea, this dissertation attempts to shed new light on the South Korean “forgotten army” in the Vietnam War. To find out why and how the South Korean (ROK) forces fought the way they did in Vietnam, this study focuses not solely on its military aspect but combines all the different elements that influenced the ROK forces’ efforts. The ROK forces were politicized armed forces that served South Korean national, political, and economic interests, and thus pursued “maximum efforts with minimum costs” to reduce casualties, yet to save face as a significant ally of the U.S. and South Vietnam. ROK forces conducted war as a separate entity exercising their own operational control based on the allied forces’ parallel command structure. Most of all, the ROK forces proved its capability to be recognized as a capable, up-to-date armed force delivering a significant contribution to the allied war efforts in Vietnam. Their conduct of war focused more on pacification by using small-scale tactics which differed from the American way of war but proved to be effective in Vietnam. After Vietnamization started in 1969, combined with the rift between the U.S. and South Korea, South Koreans’ cause and motivation for its participation faded. Because of the different interests existing in each country and its corresponding armed forces, the conflict among the Americans, South Vietnamese, and South Koreans accelerated during this period, and thus harmed all unified war efforts. Since the Koreans were not actually succeeding in realizing their war goals, the remaining economic benefits became a primary motivation for the country as well for its soldiers. As the end of the war without a victory neared in the Vietnamization phase, the Korean troops became more passive, and their morale and discipline deteriorated. As a result, soon after their return to South Korea, their efforts were forgotten as South Vietnam vanished from history. Lack of historical analysis and politically divisive evaluations have mutually contributed to the neglect of this topic. Experiencing the twists and turns during and after the Vietnam War, the U.S.-ROK alliance remains strong, and South Korea is now strengthening its ties with Vietnam. These conditions provide enough motivation to bring new life to the history of the Korean armed forces during the Vietnam War. This historical analysis of South Korea’s most significant deployment of troops abroad not only provides a fresh perspective going beyond a competing political evaluation of the Koreans in Vietnam, but also offers lessons to current and future audiences. By adding a Korean perspective in the vast historiography of the Vietnam War, this dissertation gives a more comprehensive view of this war. This dissertation intends to start a new dialogue on the Vietnam War
Book Review of A Question of Balance: How France and the United States Created Cold War Europe; Strategic Insights, v. 7, issue 4 (September 2008)
Get PDFThis article appeared in Strategic Insights, v.7, issue 4 (September 2008)Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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