Download or read book Why Vietnam Invaded Cambodia written by Stephen J. Morris and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Morris examines the, "first and only extended war between two communist regimes."
Download or read book The Cambodian Campaign written by John M. Shaw and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Cambodia Vietnam Relations written by Source Wikipedia and published by Booksllc.Net. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 25. Chapters: Ba Chuc Massacre, Cambodian-Vietnamese War, Cambodia-Vietnam Friendship Monument, Degar refugees in Cambodia, Escape of the Provisional Revolutionary Government, Mekong-Ganga Cooperation, Nong Chan Refugee Camp, Nong Samet Refugee Camp, Operation Prek Ta, OREC, United Nations Security Council Resolution 189, United Nations Security Council Resolution 668. Excerpt: The Cambodian-Vietnamese War was an armed conflict between the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and Democratic Kampuchea. The war began with isolated clashes along the land and maritime boundaries of Vietnam and Kampuchea between 1975 and 1977, occasionally involving division-sized military formations. On 25 December 1978, Vietnam launched a full-scale invasion of Kampuchea and subsequently occupied the country and removed the Khmer Rouge from power. During the Vietnam War, Vietnamese and Khmer Rouge communists had formed an alliance to fight U.S.-backed regimes in their respective countries. Despite their open display of cooperation with the Vietnamese, the Khmer Rouge leadership feared that the Vietnamese communists were scheming to form an Indochinese federation with Vietnam as the dominant force in the region. In order to preempt an attempt by the Vietnamese to dominate them, the Khmer Rouge leadership began purging Vietnamese-trained personnel within their own ranks as the Lon Nol regime capitulated in 1975. Then, in May 1975, the newly formed Democratic Kampuchea, dominated by the Khmer Rouge, began waging a war against Vietnam, which was marked by an attack on the Vietnamese island of Phu Quoc. In spite of the fighting that had occurred between the two countries, the leaders of reunified Vietnam and Kampuchea made several public diplomatic exchanges throughout 1976 to highlight the supposedly strong relations between them. However, behind the...
Download or read book The Cambodian Campaign During the Vietnam War written by Charles River Editors and published by . This book was released on 2016-10-18 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Includes pictures *Includes excerpts of accounts of the fighting by soldiers *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "When elephants fight, ants should stand aside." - Norodom Sihanouk, King of Cambodia, on the Vietnam War The Vietnam War could have been called a comedy of errors if the consequences weren't so deadly and tragic. In 1951, while war was raging in Korea, the United States began signing defense pacts with nations in the Pacific, intending to create alliances that would contain the spread of Communism. As the Korean War was winding down, America joined the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, pledging to defend several nations in the region from Communist aggression. One of those nations was South Vietnam. By the end of 1967, with nearly half a million troops deployed, more than 19,000 deaths, and a war that cost $2 billion a month and seemed to grow bloodier by the day, the Johnson administration faced an increasingly impatient and skeptical nation. Early in 1968, a massive coordinated Viet Cong operation - the Tet Offensive - briefly paralyzed American and South Vietnamese forces across the country, threatening even the American embassy compound in Saigon. With this, the smiling mask slipped even further, inflaming the burgeoning antiwar movement. As the results of the Tet Offensive made clear, American forces were hamstrung by political constraints and a wide range of self-imposed limitations, and the United States struggled to deal with the greater strategic nimbleness of the North Vietnamese during the late 1960s. The tremendous power of the American military, blending technological strength and professional skill, gave the Americans the advantage in many, though of course not all, tactical encounters. On the strategic and operational level, however, the North Vietnamese held many of the trump cards. Constrained by a heavily defensive strategy, the U.S. found itself mostly forced to respond to the North's initiatives, and a reactive strategy placed even an extremely potent combatant at a severe disadvantage. The NVA and Viet Cong used this favorable situation to create numerous bases just across the Cambodian border from South Vietnam, enabling them to launch attacks and then retreat to their "neutral" refuge where the U.S. usually refused to authorize its troops to follow them. As U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said, "Washington had convinced itself that the four Indochinese states were separate entities, even though the communists had been treating them as a single theater for two decades and were conducting a coordinated strategy with respects to all of them." (Shaw, 2005, 3). Furthermore, the North Vietnamese developed a shortened supply route through Cambodia to lessen dependence on the partially compromised Ho Chi Minh Trail traversing Laos. Sihanouk allowed Hanoi to use the deep water port of Sihanoukville to bring weaponry and supplies in from ships sailing out of communist China, from where the Viet Cong moved them the short distance to the South Vietnamese border, along the so-called Sihanoukville Trail, without fear of American interdiction. This strategic situation changed briefly, however, during the 1970 Cambodian Campaign, when American and South Vietnamese forces crossed the border into Cambodia and brought the battle to the previously immune enemy there. The Cambodian Campaign during the Vietnam War: The History of the Controversial Invasion of Cambodia and Laos looks at the secret mission and the manner in which it roiled American sentiment at home. Along with pictures depicting important people, places, and events, you will learn about the bombing of Cambodia like never before.
Download or read book Cambodian Vietnamese War written by Marlon Okula and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-29 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambodian-Vietnamese Wa known in Vietnam as the Counter-offensive on the Southwestern border and by Cambodian nationalists as the Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia was an armed conflict between Democratic Kampuchea, controlled by the Khmer Rouge, and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. In this book: -Short History -Diplomacy and military action -Invasion of Kampuchea -KPNLF insurgency -Vietnamese reform and withdrawal -United Front for the Liberation of Oppressed Races -Combat history -Allegations of United States support for the Khmer Rouge -Nong Chan Refugee Camp -Nong Samet Refugee Camp -The Vietnamese dry-season offensive of 1984 -Nam tiến -And much more.
Download or read book The Third Indochina War written by Odd Arne Westad and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-09-27 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first international history of the Third Indochina War, and features contributors from many different countries and scholarly traditions.
Download or read book Away from Home Season written by Nguyen Thanh Nhan and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cambodia and Vietnam written by Richard H. Solomon and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Before the Killing Fields written by Sir Leslie Fielding and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a gripping portrait of a country poised between peace and war. In the mid-1960s, Cambodia's position within South East Asia was highly vulnerable. The Americans were embroiled in war in Vietnam, the Viet Cong were gaining clandestine control over Cambodian frontier areas, while the Cambodian government - under the leadership of a charming but difficult Head of State, Prince Norodom Sihanouk - wanted nothing more than to preserve their neutrality and keep out of the war. Highly distrustful of any perceived foreign interference, the Cambodians had even rioted and attacked the American and British Embassies in Phnom Penh and their debris was still strewn on the streets when Leslie Fielding arrived in the city. Yet against this grim and dramatic backdrop, the daily round of international foreign policy somehow had to continue and "Before the Killing Fields" offers a compelling and fascinating account of how this was achieved. As well as a political history this is also a portrait of an exotic but overlooked country at a critical stage in its development. Violence, intrigue and even the supernatural mingle with issues of day-to-day management and office morale. From diplomatic meetings conducted in opium dens and dancing lessons with beautiful princesses at the Royal Palace to candid portraits of the rest of the international community of Phnom Penh, "Before the Killing Fields" is an illuminating insight into a lost world."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Download or read book Wars Involving Cambodia written by Source Wikipedia and published by University-Press.org. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 72. Chapters: World War II, Vietnam War, Cambodian Civil War, People's Republic of Kampuchea, Cambodian-Vietnamese War, Vietnamization, Indochina Wars, 1997 clashes in Cambodia, Cambodian Rebellion, Siamese-Vietnamese War.
Download or read book Cambodian Civil War Vietnam written by Hugo Virgo and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-04-29 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambodian-Vietnamese Wa known in Vietnam as the Counter-offensive on the Southwestern border and by Cambodian nationalists as the Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia was an armed conflict between Democratic Kampuchea, controlled by the Khmer Rouge, and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. In this book: -Short History -Diplomacy and military action -Invasion of Kampuchea -KPNLF insurgency -Vietnamese reform and withdrawal -United Front for the Liberation of Oppressed Races -Combat history -Allegations of United States support for the Khmer Rouge -Nong Chan Refugee Camp -Nong Samet Refugee Camp -The Vietnamese dry-season offensive of 1984 -Nam tiến -And much more.
Download or read book Vietnam s Withdrawal from Cambodia written by Gary Klintworth and published by Australian National University, Research School of Social Sciences. This book was released on 1990 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Vietnam s Intervention in Cambodia in International Law written by Gary Klintworth and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Falling Out of Touch written by Thomas Engelbert and published by Monash Asia Institute. This book was released on 1995 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study of an alliance ending in disenchantment after Pol Pot's visit to Hanoi in 1965 and the start of the war between Cambodia and Vietnam in 1977.
Download or read book Black Paper written by Cambodia. Krasuaṅ Kār Parates and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Vietnam Cambodia Conflict written by Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
