Introduction The Evolution of CAPs CAPs, Green Berets, and Mobile Advisory Teams Becoming a CAP Marine Life in a CAP Popular Forces A View from the Top Conclusion
John Southard is a visiting lecturer in the Department of History at Georgia State University. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
"[...] I cannot point to another source -- primary or secondary --
that describes the CAP program and all that it encompasses in such
a concise manner[...] Southard is able to excellently capture much
more than the gist of the CAP's experience; he captures the outlook
of the individual CAP Marine to Lieutenant General Krulak's
experience defending the CAP program to his four-star
headquarters.This book will be appreciated by both historian and
practitioner alike. Easily read witha well-organized and researched
argument, it should be in the hands of the historian lookingto
examine other methods of war than conventional search and attack
battle." -- US Military History Review
""A valuable and insightful study of the relationship and
perceptions of Americans tasked with counterinsurgency and their
Vietnamese counterparts. Defend and Befriend is terrific military
history as well as serving as a guidebook for future
counterinsurgency efforts. I learned something new from each
chapter."--Larry Berman, author of Zumwalt: The Life and Times of
Admiral Elmo Russell "Bud" Zumwalt, Jr." --
""Southard has provided a much needed account of the Combined
Action Program in Vietnam, a topic of increasing importance in a
world increasingly obsessed with counterinsurgency. From strategic
debates, through training, to combat, to the complex interaction
between the Marines and their Popular Force counterparts, Defend
and Befriend admirably covers CAP inside and out and is an
important step forward in the historiography of the Vietnam
War."--Andrew Wiest, author of The Boys of '67: Charlie Company's
War in Vietnam" --
"John Southard brings a scholarly perspective to a Vietnam War
Marine counterinsurgency program that hitherto hasbeen discussed
primarily by Marine Corps historians." -- VVA Books
"The work of the Combined Action Platoons during the Vietnam War
was significant, yet the participants have had little opportunity
to tell their stories. Defend and Befriend provides them with a
voice. Charting new waters, this book is an important contribution
to the study of the war." -- Mary Kathyrn Barbier, coeditor of
America and the Vietnam War: Re-examining the Culture and History
of a Generation
"This book adds a great deal to the significant debate about how
the United States waged the war in Vietnam. Southard skillfully
questions the wisdom of the war of attrition, while at the same
time highlighting the challenges of trying to win the war on the
local level." -- Kyle Longley, author of Grunts: The American
Combat Soldier in Vietnam and The Morenci Marines: A Tale of Small
Town America and the Vietnam War
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