Operation Crossroads

In order to present the program as under the full authority of South Vietnam government, Operation Ranch Hands planes were stored alongside President Diem's private planes at the United States Air Force Base Bien Hoa. Although the United States Air Force initially planned to remove American markings from the planes and replace them with South Vietnam markings, a pilot involved in the first stages of Operation Ranch Hand recalled the Air Force Commander never implementing the remarking of…

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The Vietnam War continues to have lasting impacts even though the war ended more than forty-three years ago. The herbicides used during the Vietnam War can still be found in high traces in some places in Vietnam. The environmental impacts caused by Agent Orange and other herbicides than lead to many deadly illnesses for soldiers and local natives. The used of Agent Orange during the Vietnam War has effects millions of people and it will affect many more in the years to come. Clearly, herbicides…

“I have no future, no happiness” (“Eating, Drinking, Touching, Breathing, Nursing, Conceiving”). Do Duc Diu, a father who lost twelve out of his fifteen children from the effects of Agent Orange expresses how Agent Orange has changed the meaning of his life. The effects of Agent Orange are horrific. Any where from 2.1 million to 4.5 million Vietnamese citizens have been exposed from the time of spraying the dioxin-contaminated herbicide ("Health Effects of Agent Orange/Dioxin"). It has been…

additional Brigades, in support of surge operations, spanned over a five-month period, from January to May of 2007. The implementation of tour extensions took effect in order to facilitate a shared understanding between presently deployed Brigades and the influx of the allotted 28,000 additional U.S. troops. These additional troops would later support Operation Phantom Thunder, Operation Phantom Strike, and Operation Phantom Phoenix. Surge operations, commanded under the authority of…

As the United States military, and the American public at large, struggle with the legacy and lessons of the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT), Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) in Iraq, and Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) in Afghanistan, Lieutenant General (Retired) Daniel Bolger’s book, Why We Lost, adds an important element to the debate. An element that questions the advice to political leadership, the strategy, and the leadership of the country’s senior military officers. Bolger’s service as a…

S. Government employee, i.e. former military, Federal Government employee? A. No 3. Do you currently hold an active US security clearances? Level: Held by: Last adjudicated date: A. No, however, held level of Public Trust with DoD & DoS during Operations Enduring Freedom, Iraqi Freedom and New Dawn. Accordingly, I qualify and am able to obtain a Secret Clearance. 4. Are you speaking or working with any other Raytheon recruiters for other opportunities within the organization? (If so, recruiter…

Introduction September 17, 1944, Allied forces commenced the largest airborne operation, code name Operation Market-Garden, which took place in Holland in order to make way for Allied forces, both ground and air to advance through Holland into Germany. The scheme of the operation was an idea by Field Marshall Sir Bernard Montgomery, which he had convinced the Supreme Allied Commander, General Dwight Eisenhower in approving Operation Market-Garden, which called for a direct thrust towards the…

In 1940, as the war intensified and the Germans began to march toward France during the German Western Offensive, he was evacuated from the town of Dunkirk on one of the last boats to leave for England. The same year, he joined the Special Operations Executive, a branch of the modern day MI6. Leadership. In September of 1940, Colonel Buckmaster assumed command of the French section of MI6 (F Section), and was told that his task was to build an organization that could effectively carry out acts…

Over the past 70 years the “promise of airpower” to allows nations to wage war more quickly, more cheaply, and more humanely has not been fulfilled. Moreover, example of Vietnam War shows that there are many limitations for airpower and proper use of this power is extremely complicated to be effective like promised. Even more, winning series of battles and even overthrowing the enemy does not mean winning the war. Clausewitz wrote in his book “On War” that war is merely continuation of policy…