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Article: Ripcord: Screaming Eagles Under Siege, Vietnam 1970.(Review)
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- Parameters
- Article date:
- June 22, 2001
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Ripcord: Screaming Eagles Under Siege, Vietnam 1970. By Keith W. Nolan. Novato, Calif.: Presidio, 2000. 447 pages. $29.95. Reviewed by Dr. Henry G. Gole (Colonel, USA Ret.), a combat infantryman in the Korean and Vietnam wars.
Ripcord is a well-written and thoroughly researched account of ferocious close combat in the context of tactics, strategy, and policy. It evokes admiration for American and North Vietnamese infantry soldiers engaged in intense fighting and contempt for what passed for American higher military and political leadership. Nolan writes, "The men who did their best at Ripcord won a personal victory inside a larger defeat; the circumstances of ...