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Article: The Rise and Fall of an American Army: U.S. Ground Forces in Vietnam 1965-1973.
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- October 1, 1988
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The Rise and Fall of an American Army:-U.S. Ground Forces in Vietnam 1965-1973, by Shelby L. Stanton. Presidio Novato, California Presidio Press, 1985. 411 pp. $22.50.
In 1975 I wrote the book Soldiers in Revolt to document the collapse of morale and discipline within the U.S. military during tile Vietnam War. Drawing on my own first-hand experience as an antiwar soldier activist, I chronicled the GI resistance movement of that time arid offered the thesis that American forces were withdrawn in 1969 and afterwards because they ceased to function as an effective fighting force. Richard Nixon withdrew the Army and Marine Corps not only to appease domestic ...