Special Forces

Polling the Burns/Novick ‘The Vietnam War’ Documentary

On: September 25, 2017

In: 1965-1973 Combat Phase, Antiwar Activists, Atrocities, Bombing Campaigns, Historical Perspective, Myth vs. Fact, Phoenix Program, Pre-1965 Involvement, South Vietnamese, Special Forces, Strategic Hamlet Program, The Communists, The Lessons of War

SOG OP 35 and U.S. Army Special Forces in South Vietnam

By: blogadmin

On: October 8, 2015

In: Montagnards, Special Forces

James D. McLeroy SOG OP 35 In January, 1961 President Kennedy ordered the CIA to begin unconventional warfare (UW) operations against North Vietnam. Because of the Cuban invasion fiasco in April of that year, he ordered all CIA paramilitary and UW programs transferred to the Pentagon. In early 1964, theContinue Reading