At the Leading Edge of Counterinsurgency

Mobile Advisory Teams were an unconventional approach to an unconventional war. Even before French soldiers left Vietnam in 1956 as France’s colonial rule came to an end, U.S. Army advisers were already working in the country. Small numbers of American advisers had been there since 1950. Then in 1962 the Military Assistance Command, Vietnam, was …

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