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Notes Preface 1. Stanley Karnow, Vietnam: A History (New York: Viking, 1983), 641. 2. Brigadier General George E. Wear, senior military adviser and commander of US Forces in II Corps, telephone interview by the author, 14 Sept. 2004. 3. Bruce Palmer Jr., “How Bright, How Shining? Sheehan’s Portrait of Vann and Vietnam,” Parameters (U.S. Army War College) 19, no. 2 (June 1989), 23. 4. Captain (Lieutenant Colonel, Ret.) John R. Finch, email to author, 20 June 2006. 5. James G. Lowenstein and Richard M. Moose, Vietnam: May 1972, a staff report prepared for the use of the Committee on Foreign Relations , US Senate, 1972 June 29 (Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office, 1972), 9. Prologue. Kontum: Now and Then 1. Hand-written questions by Neil Sheehan and 30 Sept. 1972 answers by Captain Christopher E. Scudder, undated notes by Neil Sheehan from his interview with Captain Christopher E. Scudder, air operations adviser, II Corps Headquarters, Neil Sheehan Papers, Container 122, Folder 19, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, DC. 2. George D. Moss, Vietnam: An American Ordeal (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1998), 386. 3. Annex K, Kontum: The NVA Buildup, annex to United States Military Assistance Command Vietnam (MACV), Command History, January 1972–March 1973, vol. 2 (Saigon: Military History Branch, Office of the Secretary, Joint Staff, MACV, 1973), K-11. 4. James K. Moore, “Giap’s Giant Mistake,” Vietnam (Feb. 1992), 28. 1. Autumn in the Highlands 1. Brigadier General George E. Wear, senior military adviser and commander of US Forces in II Corps, email to the author, 22 and 23 Jan. 2005. 2. Bruce Palmer Jr., U.S. Intelligence and Vietnam, special issue of Studies in Intelligence 28 (1984), 91–92. 3. Ibid., 91. 278 • NOTES TO PAGES 7–16 4. Lewis B. Sorley, Remembering Vietnam (pamphlet produced from lecture ) (Washington, DC: National Archives, 30 Apr. 2002), 2. 5. James K. Moore, “Giap’s Giant Mistake,” Vietnam (Feb. 1992), 27. 6. Lester A. Sobel, ed., South Vietnam: U.S.–Communist Confrontation in Southeast Asia, vol. 6: 1971 (New York: Facts on File, 1973), 233. 7. William S. Turley, The Second Indochina War: A Short Political and Military History, 1954–1975 (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1986), 130. 8. George C. Herring, America’s Longest War: The United States and Vietnam , 1950–1975 (New York: Wiley, 1979), 18. 9. “Vietnamization: A Policy Put to the Test,” Newsweek, 17 Apr. 1972. 10. Quoted in Lewis Sorley, A Better War: The Unexamined Victories and Final Tragedies of America’s Last Years in Vietnam (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1999), 183. 11. “The U.S. Army in Vietnam: From Tet to the Final Withdrawal, 1968–1973,” in American Military History, rev., edited by Richard W. Stewart , Army Historical Series (Washington, DC: US Army Center of Military History, 2005), 341, available at http://www.history.army.mil/books/ AMH-42/AMH%20V2/chapter 11.htm. 12. Ngo Quang Truong, “The Tactical Adviser,” in The U.S. Adviser, by Cao Van Vien, Ngo Quang Truong, Dong Van Khuyen, Nguyen Duy Hinh, Tran Dinh Tho, Hoang Ngoc, and Chu Xuan Vien, Indochina Monographs (Washington, DC: US Army Center of Military History, 1980), 73–74. 13. “Hanoi’s High-Risk Drive for Victory,” Time, 15 May 1972. 14. Thomas Buckley, “The ARVN Is Bigger and Better, but—,” New York Times Magazine, 12 Oct. 1969. 15. Bart King, “John Paul Vann’s Reluctant Tiger,” Vietnam (Oct. 2001), 20–21. 16. “Hanoi’s High-Risk Drive for Victory.” 17. Gordon L. Rottman, North Vietnamese Army Soldier 1958–75 (London: Osprey, 2009), 13, 17–19. 18. Ibid., 11. 19. “Letter of Instructions to the Director, Second Regional Assistance Group (DSRAG)/Senior Adviser, II Corps and MR 2 (SA II Corps and MR 2),” 18 Nov. 1971, in U.S. Army Build-up and Activities in South Vietnam , 1965–1972, edited by Robert Lester, Vietnam War Research Collections (Bethesda, MD: University Publications of America, 1989), no page numbers. 20. A. P. Serong, The 1972 Easter Offensive, special issue of Southeast Asian Perspectives, no. 10 (Summer 1974), 41. 21. Brigadier General George E. Wear, email to the author, 22, 23, and 24 Jan. 2005. 22. Ibid., 30 Jan. 2005. 23. Donald E. Heap, lieutenant colonel, USAF, air liaison officer, 23rd ARVN Division, End of Tour Summary, 11 Jan. 1972, RG 472, National Archives, College Park, MD. 24. “1972 Orientation Edition,” The Observer (MACV), 2 June 1972; Tom [18.222.121.170] Project MUSE (2024-04-26...

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