By Tom Mangold, John Penycate
On the peak of the Vietnam clash, a posh procedure of mystery underground tunnels sprawled from Cu Chi Province to the sting of Saigon. In those burrows, the Viet Cong cached their guns, tended their wounded, and ready to strike. that they had just one enemy: U.S. squaddies small and wiry sufficient to move during the guerrillas' slim area.
The courageous souls who descended into those hellholes have been referred to as "tunnel rats." Armed with in basic terms pistols and K-bar knives, those males inched their manner during the steamy darkness the place any variety of horrors might be watching for them--bullets, booby traps, a tossed grenade. utilizing firsthand debts from women and men on each side who fought and killed in those underground battles, authors Tom Mangold and John Penycate supply a gripping within examine this fearsome wrestle. The Tunnels of Cu Chi is a warfare vintage of insufferable rigidity and unforgettable heroes.
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US Army Photo General Ridgway felt keenly the problems resuiting from the d i m i n i s h e d status of the A r m y ' s two senior representatives. In April 1954 Ridgway urged Brucker as a matter of the "~eatest importance" to obtain Army r e p r e s e n t a t i o n at all NSC meetings. 22 A year later, on the eve of his retirement, Ridgway r e t u r n e d to this theme. " On this occasion Ridgway specified the additional need for either the A r m y Secretary or Chief of Staff to be "consulted by the President ...
Marshall had enjoyed u n l i m i t e d access to the White I I o u s e . T h e P r e s i d e n t h a d c o n s u l t e d M a r s h a l l on virtually all major decisions relating to national security and had attached great weight to Marshall's opinions. By the time Ridgway a s s u m e d the Army Chief of Staff's mantle in 1953 he found his access to the President m u c h reduced. For the most part, he had to rely on the JCS Chairman to represent the Army's views in the White House. Neither Admiral Radford nor G e n e r a l N a t h a n T w i n i n g , the a i r m a n w h o s u c c e e d e d Radford as JCS Chairman, sympat h i z e d w i t h the A r m y ' s p e r s p e c t i v e on s e c u r i t y issues.
As a result, during Taylor's tenure as Army Chief of Staff, the Army adopted the language of deterrence in establishing its claim on defense resources. "Like all o t h e r e l e m e n t s of our n a t i o n a l d e f e n s e progr a m s , " T a y l o r said in a s p e e c h in October 1955 "the Army justifies its existence primarily as a deterrent force to prevent war. ''4 Taylor agreed with Ridgway that non-nuclear aggression would flourish u n d e r c o n d i t i o n s of n u c l e a r p l e n t y .