Research Guides: Vietnam Conflict: Special Forces

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Analysis of Communist Vietnamese Special Operations Forces During the Vietnam War and the Lessons that can be Applied to Current and Future U.S. Military Operations
NPS thesis
Assessing Revolutionary and Insurgent Strategies (ARIS)
"This project consists of research conducted for the US Army Special Operations Command by the National Security Analysis Department of The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory."
Brothers in Berets The Evolution of Air Force Special Tactics, 1953-2003
Casebook on Insurgency and Revolutionary Warfare, Vol. 1: 1933-1962
This casebook provides summary descriptive accounts of 23 revolutions that have occurred in seven geographic areas of the world, mostly since World War 2. Each revolution is described in terms of the environment in which it occurred, the form of the revolutionary movements it self, and the results which were accomplished. (large file)
Casebook on Revolutionary Warfare and Insurgency, Volume II: 1962-2009
This is an update to the earlier volume and is also a large file.
Special Operations Forces and Elusive Enemy Ground Targets: Lessons from Vietnam and the Persian Gulf War
U.S. Army Counterinsurgency and Contingency Operations Doctrine 1942-1976
U.S. Army Special Forces - 1961-1971
US Special Forces and Counterinsurgency in Vietnam Military Innovation and Institutional Failure, 1961-1963

MACV-SOG

Military Assistance Command, Vietnam – Studies and Observations Group (MACV-SOG). Established on 24 January 1964, this was a "multi-service United States special operations unit which conducted covert unconventional warfare operations prior to and during the Vietnam War." (source)

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