Vietnam from Cease-Fire to Capitulation

CONTENTS:

Foreword -- Introduction
Before the Cease-Fire
U.S. Organization for the Cease-Fire
Landgrab 73
Consolidating and Rebuilding
The Third Indochina War: First Half-Year
Cease-Fire II in MR 1 and 2
Cease-Fire II in MR 3 and 4
The Decline of U.S. Support
1974, Year of Decision
Strategic Raids
The Highlands to the Hai Van
The Ring Tightens Around Hue
The Last Christmas: Phuoc Long
On the Second Anniversary of the Cease-Fire
The Central Highlands, March 1975
The Final Offensive in the North
The Last Act in the South
Was Defeat Inevitable?


An infantryman, Colonel William E. Le Gro, USA (Ret.), fought in New Guinea and the Philippines in 1944 and 1945. Subsequent service included troop and staff duty in Germany and Korea and graduation from the Army War College. As a graduate student at American University in 1963 and 1964, the author specialized in East and Southeast Asia. He was also concerned with Southeast Asia while assigned to the office of the Army's Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations in 1964 and 1965. Colonel Le Gro served in Vietnam in 1966 and 1967 as G-2, 1st Infantry Division, and was Director of Asian Studies at the Army War College from 1969 to 1971. From December 1972 until 29 April 1975, he was a senior staff officer with the U.S. Military Assistance Command, Vietnam, and its successor agency, the U.S. Defense Attache Office, Saigon.
DOUGLAS KINNARD
Brigadier General, USA (Ret.)
Chief of Military History