SEALORDS

The Joint U.S.-South Vietnamese Campaign to Seal the Mekong Delta, 1968-1971

von Antonios Valamontes

284 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

In the waterways of South Vietnam, control of the war depended on who could move men, weapons, supplies, and patrol forces through thousands of miles of rivers and canals.SEALORDS reconstructs the ambitious U.S.-South Vietnamese naval campaign that transformed the river war in the Mekong Delta between 1968 and 1971.Drawing on official U.S. Navy and Army histories, command summaries, operational records, after-action reports, contemporary professional writing, memoirs, and later scholarship, Antonios Valamontes follows the campaign from Vice Admiral Elmo Zumwalt's reorganization of American naval operations through the creation of the major river barriers, the expansion of PBR and assault-craft operations, Sea Float and Solid Anchor, the Cambodian campaign, and the transfer of boats, bases, logistics, and command responsibility to the Republic of Vietnam Navy.The book examines not only firefights and interdiction operations, but also the larger questions behind them: How effective were the barriers? How much could riverine forces actually stop? What did Vietnamization accomplish? And why did operational success in the Mekong Delta fail to determine the final outcome of the war?With detailed operational analysis, maps, photographs, statistics, source documentation, and a memorial to those who died in SEALORDS-related operations, SEALORDS presents a comprehensive history of one of the most innovative and demanding naval campaigns of the Vietnam War.It is a study of riverine warfare, adaptation, allied cooperation, Vietnamization, and the limits of military success.

• Reihe: Independently published
• ISBN: 9798176166408
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 21.09.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Independently published