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Advising the ARVN: Lieutenant General Samuel T. Williams in Vietnam, 1955-1960

Beginning in 1954, the United States Army attempted to build a viable armed force in South Vietnam. Until the early 1960s, other areas commanded more American attention, yet this formative period was influential in later United States involvement in Vietnam. This thesis examines United States advisory efforts from 1955 to 1960 by analyzing the tenure of Lieutenant General Samuel T. Williams as Chief of the Military Assistance Advisory Group in South Vietnam. During Williams's tenure, the communist forces in the north began the guerrilla insurgency in earnest. Williams's failure to respond to this change has been justly criticized; yet his actions were reflective of the United States Army's attitude toward insurgencies in the late 1950s.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc504626
Date08 1900
CreatorsSchneider, Frederick W. (Frederick Walter), 1959-
ContributorsLane, Peter B., Marcello, Ronald E., Lowry, Bullitt, 1936-
PublisherUniversity of North Texas
Source SetsUniversity of North Texas
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis or Dissertation
Formatvii, 87 leaves, Text
CoverageVietnam, United States, 1955-1960
RightsPublic, Schneider, Frederick W. (Frederick Walter), 1959-, Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.

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