The U.S. Naval Institute on Vietnam: Coastal and River

by Thomas J Cutler (Editor)

Overview

The U.S. Naval Institute Chronicles series focuses on the relevance of history by exploring topics like significant battles, personalities, and service components. Tapping into the U.S. Naval Institute's robust archives, these carefully selected volumes help readers understand nuanced subjects by providing unique perspectives and some of the best contributions that have helped shape naval thinking over the many decades since the Institute’s founding in 1873. Among the various aspects of the U.S. Navy’s “in-country” experiences in Vietnam, small-craft operations are among the most significant. Revealed in this collection from the Naval Institute’s archives are Operations Market Time, Game Warden, and SEALORDS, as well some lesser-known aspects of the Navy’s iconoclastic venture into the green and brown waters of Southeast Asia.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781682470497
Publisher:	Naval Institute Press
Publication date:	06/15/2016
Series:	U.S. Naval Institute Chronicles
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	176
File size:	443 KB

About the Author

THOMAS J. CUTLER, series editor, has been serving the U.S. Navy in various capacities for more than fifty years. The author of many articles and books, including several editions of The Bluejacket’s Manual and A Sailor’s History of the U.S. Navy, he is currently the Director of Professional Publishing at the Naval Institute Press and Fleet Professor of Strategy and Policy with the Naval War College. He has received the Naval History Lifetime Achievement Award, the William P. Clements Award for Excellence in Education as military teacher of the year at the U.S. Naval Academy, the Alfred Thayer Mahan Award for Naval Literature, the U.S. Maritime Literature Award, the Naval Institute Press Author of the Year Award, and the Commodore Dudley W. Knox Naval History Lifetime Achievement Award presented by the U.S. Naval Historical Foundation.

Table of Contents

Editor's Note xi

Acknowledgments xiii

Introduction 1

1 "The River War in Indochina" Robert McClintock U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, December 1954 3

2 "From Blue to Green and Brown" Lieutenant Commander Thomas J. Cutler, USN (Ret.) Naval History, December 2015 11

3 "The DER in MARKET TIME" Lieutenant Commander W.J. Moredock, USN U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, February 1967 24

4 "Cutters and Sampans" Senior Chief Dennis L. Noble, USCG (Ret.) U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, June 1984 28

5 "Skimmer Ops" Lieutenant J. F. Ebersole, USCG U.S. Naval institute Proceedings, July 1974 39

6 "Trawler!" Commander Charles R. Stephan, USN U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, September 1968 51

7 "God Be Here" Lieutenant Commander Thomas J. Cutler, USN U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, April 1988 70

8 "Seawolves Roll In across the Mekong Delta" Commander David G. Tyler, USNR U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, January 2002 79

9 "The Black Ponies" Lieutenant Commander Daniel B. Sheehan, USN (Ret.) U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, April 1988 89

10 "Task Force Clearwater: River Security Groups-I Corps Tactical Zone" Lieutenant Commander Thomas J. Cutler, USN Selection from Brown Water, Black Berets: Coastal and Riverine Warfare in Vietnam, 1988 102

11 "The Mobile Riverine Force, Vietnam" Commander Dan Dagle, USNR U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, January 1969 114

12 Comment and Discussion on "The Riverine Force in Action" (W. C. Wells, Naval Review 1969) Commander C. L. Horowitz, USN U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, November 1969 118

13 "Sea Lords" Commander Richard L. Schreadley, USN U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, August 1970 123

14 "Swift Raiders" Commander Richard L. Schreadley, USN U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, June 1984 139

15 "River Power" Commander Thomas R. M. Emery, USN U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, August 1970 145

16 "Forgotten Lessons of Riverine Warfare" Lieutenant (junior grade) Christopher A. Abel, USCG U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, February 1982 152

Index 161