Gregory A Daddis
Biographic Data
| ID | 5692530 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gregory A Daddis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gregory A |
| FAMILY NAME | Daddis |
| SIGNATURE | DADDIS G A |
| AFFILIATIONS | United States Military Academy |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Cambridge History of the Vietnam War
The third and final volume of The Cambridge History of the Vietnam War examines key domestic, regional, and international developments in the period before and after the war's end, including its legal, environmental, and memorial legacies. The latter stages of the Vietnam War witnessed its apex as a Cold War crucible. The Sino-Soviet dispute, Sino-American rapprochement, Soviet-American détente, and global counter-culturalism served in various wa…
The Cambridge History of the Vietnam War
In great depth, Volume II examines the escalation of the Vietnam War and its development into a violent stalemate, beginning with the overthrow of the Ngô Đình Diệm in 1963 to the aftermath of the 1968 Tết Offensive. This five-year period was, for the most part, the fulcrum of a three-decades-long struggle to determine the future of Vietnam and was marked by rival spirals of escalation generated by the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and the Unite…
Planning for a War in Paradise
This article explores the impact of one of the key non-military events in the U.S. war in Vietnam, at least in the crucial years from 1964 to 1968. During a two-day U.S.–South Vietnamese conference held in Honolulu in early 1966, Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara and Secretary of State Dean Rusk laid out a series of overarching strategic objectives, both military and political, that shaped the allied war effort through the 1968 Tet offensiv…
Kevin M. Boylan. Losing Binh Dinh
Generalizing about the kaleidoscopic war in Vietnam is, regrettably, as common as it is ill considered. One American general, struggling to classify this “unusual” conflict, portrayed a “different kind of war in each of South Vietnam’s forty-four provinces” (Donn A. Starry, Mounted Combat in Vietnam [2002], 14). Over the years, more perceptive scholars have tended to agree. In studies concentrating on individual provinces—An Lộc, Hậu Nghĩa, or Đị…
Faith in War
War has become a form of secular religion for many Americans in the modern era. Much of our deployment of military power during the last 50 years has rested on a set of absolute beliefs about the overall utility of war. In the process, policymakers and citizens alike maintain an enduring faith that the United States, via its military forces, has the power to transform societies abroad
Steven Casey. When Soldiers Fall
Evoking military theorist Carl von Clausewitz's famous dictum on war and politics, When Soldiers Fall: How Americans Have Confronted Combat Losses from World War I to Afghanistan proposes that wartime casualties, like war itself, have often served as a continuation of political intercourse in twentieth-century conflicts. In fact, Steven Casey proposes we should consider casualties suffered during modern American wars as narratives both constructe…
Out of Balance
This paper examines the ineffective implementation of American military strategy in the Vietnam War’s final years. While the Nixon administration conceived a comprehensive strategic concept aimed at winding down the war in South Vietnam, civilian and military leaders struggled to realize, in an effectual manner, Nixon’s wide-ranging political objectives. American officials in Saigon and Washington found it near impossible to balance the competing…
A Better War?’ – The View from the Nixon White House
This article examines the relationship between the White House and the US Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (MACV) during President Richard M. Nixon's administration. It argues that dysfunctional civil-military relations between 1969 and 1972 undermined the implementation of a sound military strategy during the United States' withdrawal from South Vietnam as Nixon attempted to achieve ‘peace with honor’ during the Vietnam War's final campaigns…
Mired in a Quagmire
The Problem of Metrics
During the Vietnam War the complex nature of fighting an insurgency posed significant problems for US Army officers attempting to measure progress and military effectiveness. While much of the Vietnam historiography maintains that ‘body counts’ served as the primary, if not only, indicator of wartime success, such arguments overlook the vast numbers of reports attempting to measure progress and performance. Problems in evaluating progress stemmed…
Beyond the Brotherhood
The conventional wisdom that portrays US combat soldiers in World War II as a 'band of brothers' owes much to Hollywood and popular history, and distorts serious understanding of the relationships within combat units of the US Army. This article examines this idea in the context of theories of unit cohesion and combat motivation and suggests a more complex understanding of these issues.Keywords: UNIT COHESIONCOMBAT MOTIVATIONORGANIZATIONAL THEORY…
Leadership and Responsibility in the Second World War
LEADERSHIP AND RESPONSIBILITY IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR: Essays in Honour of Robert Vogel Edited by Brian P. Farrell Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2004. xxix, 273pp, $75.00 cloth (ISBN 0-7735-2643-9), $27.95 paper (ISBN 0-7735-2731-1)A natural consequence of the development of complex national defence organizations in the Second World War was a vastly expanded notion of national leadership, no longer usefully described in te…
The Problem of Metrics
During the Vietnam War the complex nature of fighting an insurgency posed significant problems for US Army officers attempting to measure progress and military effectiveness. While much of the Vietnam historiography maintains that ‘body counts’ served as the primary, if not only, indicator of wartime success, such arguments overlook the vast numbers of reports attempting to measure progress and performance. Problems in evaluating progress stemmed…
Leadership and Responsibility in the Second World War
LEADERSHIP AND RESPONSIBILITY IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR: Essays in Honour of Robert Vogel Edited by Brian P. Farrell Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2004. xxix, 273pp, $75.00 cloth (ISBN 0-7735-2643-9), $27.95 paper (ISBN 0-7735-2731-1)A natural consequence of the development of complex national defence organizations in the Second World War was a vastly expanded notion of national leadership, no longer usefully described in te…
Beyond the Brotherhood
The conventional wisdom that portrays US combat soldiers in World War II as a 'band of brothers' owes much to Hollywood and popular history, and distorts serious understanding of the relationships within combat units of the US Army. This article examines this idea in the context of theories of unit cohesion and combat motivation and suggests a more complex understanding of these issues.Keywords: UNIT COHESIONCOMBAT MOTIVATIONORGANIZATIONAL THEORY…
The Problem of Metrics
During the Vietnam War the complex nature of fighting an insurgency posed significant problems for US Army officers attempting to measure progress and military effectiveness. While much of the Vietnam historiography maintains that ‘body counts’ served as the primary, if not only, indicator of wartime success, such arguments overlook the vast numbers of reports attempting to measure progress and performance. Problems in evaluating progress stemmed…
Out of Balance
This paper examines the ineffective implementation of American military strategy in the Vietnam War’s final years. While the Nixon administration conceived a comprehensive strategic concept aimed at winding down the war in South Vietnam, civilian and military leaders struggled to realize, in an effectual manner, Nixon’s wide-ranging political objectives. American officials in Saigon and Washington found it near impossible to balance the competing…
A Better War?’ – The View from the Nixon White House
This article examines the relationship between the White House and the US Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (MACV) during President Richard M. Nixon's administration. It argues that dysfunctional civil-military relations between 1969 and 1972 undermined the implementation of a sound military strategy during the United States' withdrawal from South Vietnam as Nixon attempted to achieve ‘peace with honor’ during the Vietnam War's final campaigns…
Mired in a Quagmire
Steven Casey. When Soldiers Fall
Evoking military theorist Carl von Clausewitz's famous dictum on war and politics, When Soldiers Fall: How Americans Have Confronted Combat Losses from World War I to Afghanistan proposes that wartime casualties, like war itself, have often served as a continuation of political intercourse in twentieth-century conflicts. In fact, Steven Casey proposes we should consider casualties suffered during modern American wars as narratives both constructe…
Faith in War
War has become a form of secular religion for many Americans in the modern era. Much of our deployment of military power during the last 50 years has rested on a set of absolute beliefs about the overall utility of war. In the process, policymakers and citizens alike maintain an enduring faith that the United States, via its military forces, has the power to transform societies abroad
Kevin M. Boylan. Losing Binh Dinh
Generalizing about the kaleidoscopic war in Vietnam is, regrettably, as common as it is ill considered. One American general, struggling to classify this “unusual” conflict, portrayed a “different kind of war in each of South Vietnam’s forty-four provinces” (Donn A. Starry, Mounted Combat in Vietnam [2002], 14). Over the years, more perceptive scholars have tended to agree. In studies concentrating on individual provinces—An Lộc, Hậu Nghĩa, or Đị…
Planning for a War in Paradise
This article explores the impact of one of the key non-military events in the U.S. war in Vietnam, at least in the crucial years from 1964 to 1968. During a two-day U.S.–South Vietnamese conference held in Honolulu in early 1966, Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara and Secretary of State Dean Rusk laid out a series of overarching strategic objectives, both military and political, that shaped the allied war effort through the 1968 Tet offensiv…
The Cambridge History of the Vietnam War
The third and final volume of The Cambridge History of the Vietnam War examines key domestic, regional, and international developments in the period before and after the war's end, including its legal, environmental, and memorial legacies. The latter stages of the Vietnam War witnessed its apex as a Cold War crucible. The Sino-Soviet dispute, Sino-American rapprochement, Soviet-American détente, and global counter-culturalism served in various wa…
The Cambridge History of the Vietnam War
In great depth, Volume II examines the escalation of the Vietnam War and its development into a violent stalemate, beginning with the overthrow of the Ngô Đình Diệm in 1963 to the aftermath of the 1968 Tết Offensive. This five-year period was, for the most part, the fulcrum of a three-decades-long struggle to determine the future of Vietnam and was marked by rival spirals of escalation generated by the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and the Unite…
Political science (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Vietnam War (9 works) · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies (9 works) · History (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Economic history (4 works)