Mark Moyar
Biographic Data
| ID | 1261182 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark Moyar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark |
| FAMILY NAME | Moyar |
| SIGNATURE | MOYAR M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Marine Corps University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0403-0472 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Calculating Warfare on a Spectrum of Variables
The New Makers of Modern Strategy
A Question of Command
According to the prevailing view of counterinsurgency, the key to defeating insurgents is selecting methods that will win the people’s hearts and minds. The hearts-and-minds theory permeates not only most counterinsurgency books of the twenty-first century but the U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual, the U.S. military’s foremost text on counterinsurgency. Mark Moyar assails this conventional wisdom, asserting that the key to cou…
Aid for Elites
Herbert Y. Schandler, America in Vietnam
January 01 2011 Herbert Y. Schandler, America in Vietnam: The War That Couldn't Be Won. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2009 Mark Moyar Mark Moyar Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Mark Moyar Online ISSN: 1531-3298 Print ISSN: 1520-3972 © 2011 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology2011 Journal of Cold War Studies (2011) 13 (1):…
Question of Command
Grand Strategy after the Vietnam War
Vietnam
By the early 1990s, when I began studying the Vietnam War, the American public had largely lost interest in the history of that conflict. The Civil War and World War II were the wars that historians were advised to cover if they wanted to reach the public. Among government officials, military officers, and political scientists, Vietnam was considered irrelevant, because the United States would never get caught in protracted counterinsurgency warf…
Phoenix and the Birds of Prey
This study explodes prevailing myths about the Phoenix Program, the CIA's top-secret effort to destroy the Viet Cong by neutralizing its civilian leaders. Drawing on recently declassified documents and interviews with American, South Vietnamese, and North Vietnamese sources, Mark Moyar examines the attempts to eradicate the Viet Cong infrastructure and analyzes their effectiveness. He addresses misconceptions about these efforts and provides an a…
The Current State of Military History
Military history is often misconstrued as a field requiring little intellectual skill, in which the historian provides little more than a chronology of generals and battles. Analysis of one hundred of the twenty-first century's best military histories reveals that military history today goes well beyond such subject matter, incorporating social, cultural, and political history. Common areas of inquiry for contemporary historians include the impac…
Triumph Forsaken
Drawing on a wealth of new evidence from all sides, Triumph Forsaken, first published in 2007, overturns most of the historical orthodoxy on the Vietnam War. Through the analysis of international perceptions and power, it shows that South Vietnam was a vital interest of the United States. The book provides many insights into the overthrow of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem in 1963 and demonstrates that the coup negated the South Vietname…
Political Monks
From November 1963 to July 1965, the militant Buddhist movement was the primary cause of political instability in South Vietnam. While the militant Buddhists maintained that they represented the Buddhist masses and were fighting merely for religious freedom, they actually constituted a small and unrepresentative minority that was attempting to gain political dominance. Relying extensively on Byzantine intrigue and mob violence to manipulate the g…
Phoenix and the Birds of Prey
Journal Article Phoenix and the Birds of Prey: The CIA's Secret Campaign to Destroy the Viet Cong. By Mark Moyar. (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1997. xx, 416 pp. $29.95, ISBN 1-55750-593-4.) Get access John Prados John Prados Washington, D.C. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 4, March 1999, Pages 1675–1676, https://doi.org/10.2307/2568407 Published: 01 March…
Political Monks
From November 1963 to July 1965, the militant Buddhist movement was the primary cause of political instability in South Vietnam. While the militant Buddhists maintained that they represented the Buddhist masses and were fighting merely for religious freedom, they actually constituted a small and unrepresentative minority that was attempting to gain political dominance. Relying extensively on Byzantine intrigue and mob violence to manipulate the g…
The New Makers of Modern Strategy
The Current State of Military History
Military history is often misconstrued as a field requiring little intellectual skill, in which the historian provides little more than a chronology of generals and battles. Analysis of one hundred of the twenty-first century's best military histories reveals that military history today goes well beyond such subject matter, incorporating social, cultural, and political history. Common areas of inquiry for contemporary historians include the impac…
Phoenix and the Birds of Prey
Journal Article Phoenix and the Birds of Prey: The CIA's Secret Campaign to Destroy the Viet Cong. By Mark Moyar. (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1997. xx, 416 pp. $29.95, ISBN 1-55750-593-4.) Get access John Prados John Prados Washington, D.C. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 4, March 1999, Pages 1675–1676, https://doi.org/10.2307/2568407 Published: 01 March…
Political Monks
From November 1963 to July 1965, the militant Buddhist movement was the primary cause of political instability in South Vietnam. While the militant Buddhists maintained that they represented the Buddhist masses and were fighting merely for religious freedom, they actually constituted a small and unrepresentative minority that was attempting to gain political dominance. Relying extensively on Byzantine intrigue and mob violence to manipulate the g…
Triumph Forsaken
Drawing on a wealth of new evidence from all sides, Triumph Forsaken, first published in 2007, overturns most of the historical orthodoxy on the Vietnam War. Through the analysis of international perceptions and power, it shows that South Vietnam was a vital interest of the United States. The book provides many insights into the overthrow of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem in 1963 and demonstrates that the coup negated the South Vietname…
Phoenix and the Birds of Prey
This study explodes prevailing myths about the Phoenix Program, the CIA's top-secret effort to destroy the Viet Cong by neutralizing its civilian leaders. Drawing on recently declassified documents and interviews with American, South Vietnamese, and North Vietnamese sources, Mark Moyar examines the attempts to eradicate the Viet Cong infrastructure and analyzes their effectiveness. He addresses misconceptions about these efforts and provides an a…
The Current State of Military History
Military history is often misconstrued as a field requiring little intellectual skill, in which the historian provides little more than a chronology of generals and battles. Analysis of one hundred of the twenty-first century's best military histories reveals that military history today goes well beyond such subject matter, incorporating social, cultural, and political history. Common areas of inquiry for contemporary historians include the impac…
Vietnam
By the early 1990s, when I began studying the Vietnam War, the American public had largely lost interest in the history of that conflict. The Civil War and World War II were the wars that historians were advised to cover if they wanted to reach the public. Among government officials, military officers, and political scientists, Vietnam was considered irrelevant, because the United States would never get caught in protracted counterinsurgency warf…
Question of Command
Grand Strategy after the Vietnam War
Herbert Y. Schandler, America in Vietnam
January 01 2011 Herbert Y. Schandler, America in Vietnam: The War That Couldn't Be Won. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2009 Mark Moyar Mark Moyar Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Mark Moyar Online ISSN: 1531-3298 Print ISSN: 1520-3972 © 2011 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology2011 Journal of Cold War Studies (2011) 13 (1):…
Aid for Elites
A Question of Command
According to the prevailing view of counterinsurgency, the key to defeating insurgents is selecting methods that will win the people’s hearts and minds. The hearts-and-minds theory permeates not only most counterinsurgency books of the twenty-first century but the U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual, the U.S. military’s foremost text on counterinsurgency. Mark Moyar assails this conventional wisdom, asserting that the key to cou…
Calculating Warfare on a Spectrum of Variables
The New Makers of Modern Strategy
Political science (10 works) · History (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Political economy (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · History (5 works) · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies (5 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Military History and Strategy (4 works)