Courageous Dissent:: The History Behind the Vietnam Warfighting Strategy and the Five Marine Generals Who Advocated Alternatives, 1965-1969

This history is written as a chronological narrative of Vietnam warfare strategies and the characters involved in their selection and implementation. These strategies are identified as principal reasons for America’s failure in Vietnam as well as alternatives offered by five Marine General dissenters. Two major operations are detailed as examples of two differing strategies—-Khe Sanh and Dewey Canyon. The time frame of these events is bookmarked by the arrival and departure of the first U.S. combat troops in Vietnam - the 9th Marine Regiment - an elite military organization, where all four writers of this book served as U.S Marine Lieutenants in 1968 and 1969.