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The Cambodian Campaign: The 1970 Offensive and America's Vietnam War Hardcover – October 12, 2005

by John M. Shaw (Author)

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When American and South Vietnamese forces, led by General Creighton Abrams, launched an attack into neutral Cambodia in 1970, the invasion ignited a firestorm of violent antiwar protests throughout the United States, dealing yet another blow to Nixon's troubled presidency. But, as John Shaw shows, the campaign also proved to be a major military success.

Most histories of the Vietnam War either give the Cambodian invasion short shrift or merely criticize it for its political fallout, thus neglecting one of the campaign's key dimensions. Approaching the subject from a distinctly military perspective, Shaw shows how this carefully planned and executed offensive provided essential support for Nixon's "decent interval" and "peace with honor" strategies-by eliminating North Vietnamese sanctuaries and supply bases located less than a hundred miles from Saigon and by pushing Communist troops off the Vietnamese border.

Despite the political cloud under which the operation was conducted, Shaw argues that it was not only the best of available choices but one of the most successful operations of the entire war, sustaining light casualties while protecting American troop withdrawal and buying time for Nixon's pacification and "Vietnamization" strategies. He also shows how the United States took full advantage of fortuitous events, such as the overthrow of Cambodia's Prince Sihanouk, the redeployment of North Vietnamese forces, and the late arrival of spring monsoons.

Although critics of the operation have protested that the North Vietnamese never did attack out of Cambodia, Shaw makes a persuasive case that the near-border threat was very real and imminent. In the end, he contends, the campaign effectively precluded any major North Vietnamese military operations for over a year.

Based on exhaustive research and a deep analysis of the invasion's objectives, planning, organization, and operations, Shaw's shrewd study encourages a newfound respect for one of America's genuine military successes during the war.

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“Stunning in its research and highly sophisticated in its analysis, this is far and away the best study we have of the tactics and strategy used during the invasion of Cambodia.”—Robert K. Brigham, author of Guerrilla Diplomacy: The NLF’s Foreign Relations and the Vietnam War “A valuable contribution toward understanding one of the most controversial operations of the Vietnam War.”—James H. Willbanks, author of Abandoning Vietnam: How America Left and South Vietnam Lost Its War “Revisionist scholarship at its best, Shaw’s work highlights once again the cruel ironies of the American agony in Vietnam.”—Timothy J. Lomperis, author of From People’s War to People’s Rule: Insurgency, Intervention, and the Lessons of Vietnam

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"Stunning in its research and highly sophisticated in its analysis, this is far and away the best study we have of the tactics and strategy used during the invasion of Cambodia."--Robert K. Brigham, author of Guerrilla Diplomacy: The NLF's Foreign Relations and the Vietnam War

"A valuable contribution toward understanding one of the most controversial operations of the Vietnam War."--James H. Willbanks, author of Abandoning Vietnam: How America Left and South Vietnam Lost Its War

"Revisionist scholarship at its best, Shaw's work highlights once again the cruel ironies of the American agony in Vietnam."--Timothy J. Lomperis, author of From People's War to People's Rule: Insurgency, Intervention, and the Lessons of Vietnam

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Series: Modern War Studies (Hardcover)
Hardcover: 326 pages
Publisher: University Press of Kansas (October 12, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0700614052
ISBN-13: 978-0700614059
Product Dimensions: 6.3 x 0.8 x 9.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 10 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,211,760 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #2095 in Books > History > Military > United States > Vietnam War
- #2487 in Books > History > Military > Strategy
- #13127 in Books > History > Asia

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