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Informationen zum Autor Bruce Clarke practiced criminal law as a defense attorney in Washington, D.C.,, as a partner in the firm Clarke & Graae, and as a staff attorney with the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia (PDS). He later worked for the Federal Judicial Center, eventually becoming Director of the Center's Education Division. While on sabbatical from the law, Clarke studied script analysis in New York with Stella Adler and began writing plays. His plays include Bluesman (Helen Hayes Nomination, Best New Play, Kennedy Center Front and Center Award, Larry Neale Award for Dramatic Writing) and Fifteen Rounds With Jackson Pollock, produced in D.C. and regionally. He is the recipient of a playwrighting grant from the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities, and was awarded a playwriting residency at the Edward Albee Foundation. He currently teaches creative writing courses in correctional institutions in D.C. and Maryland. Klappentext The battle of Khe Sanh was won and the Vietnam war was lost at the same time. Expendable Warriors describes at multiple levels the soldiers and marines who were expendable in the American political chaos of Vietnam, 1968. On January 21, 1968, nine days before the Tet offensive, tens of thousands of North Vietnamese regulars began the attacks on the Khe Sanh plateau, which led to the siege of the Khe Sanh Combat Base.For those with a vivid memory of the Vietnam war, there is consolation in knowing that the impact of that war altered and shaped politics and warfare for the next generations. But in that altering we must take the lessons and apply them to new situations, new challenges and new policy dilemmas. To fail to do so would mean that the warriors at Khe Sanh and all of Vietnam were truly expendable, The battle of Khe Sanh was won and the Vietnam war was lost at the same time. Expendable Warriors describes at multiple levels the soldiers and marines who were expendable in the American political chaos of Vietnam, 1968. On January 21, 1968, nine days before the Tet offensive, tens of thousands of North Vietnamese regulars began the attacks on the Khe Sanh plateau, which led to the siege of the Khe Sanh Combat Base. Zusammenfassung The battle of Khe Sanh was won by the US! and the Vietnam War was lost at the same time. This work describes the experiences of the soldiers and marines who were expendable in the political chaos of Vietnam in 1968. It also ponders the question of how to win an unpopular war on foreign soil! linking battlefield events to political reality. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword by John W. Vessey ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xv Abbreviations xvii Chapter 1 1 Chapter 2 6 Vietnam 6 Khe Sanh before the Battle 8 Chapter 3 15 District Headquarters 15 The Village Participants 20 Chapter 4 29 Day-to-Day Operations of the Advisory Team 29 Chapter 5 39 Giap's Strategy 39 The NVA Tactical Plan 43 The American Plan 43 Chapter 6 47 The Situation Changes-The Prelude to the Battle in Khe Sanh 47 Chapter 7 52 The Battle Is Joined 52 The Western Approach to the Village-CAC-OSCAR 2's Fight 58 Air Strikes Take Their Toll 60 Chapter 8 65 Black Cats to the Rescue 65 The Black Cats 66 The Combat Assault 68 The NVA Await 73 Enroute to Khe Sanh 73 Arriving at the Landing Zone at the Old French Fort 74 Chapter 9 83 The Battle Continues 83 What Could Have Been Done Differently 89 The Evacuation of the District Headquarters 93 Chapter 10 95 The Advisory Team on the Move 95 Lang Vei Falls 97 Life at FOB-3 99 A Corpsman's Perspective 100 The Northern Half of FOB-3 101 The Bru 104 The Extended Siege 105 The End of the Siege 106 Chapter 11 109 Observations ...
