Author: Alfred H. Paddock, Jr.
Publisher: The Minerva Group, Inc.
ISBN: 0898758432
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
Colonel Paddock traces the origins of Army special warfare from 1941 to 1952, the year the Armys special warfare center was established. While the Army had experience in psychological warfare, the major recent U. S. experience in unconventional warfare had been in the Office of Strategic Services, a civilian agency, during World War II. Many army leaders, trained and experienced in conventional warfare, hesitantly accepted psychological warfare as a legitimate weapon in the Armys wartime arsenal, but questioned the validity and appropriateness of the Armys adoption of unconventional operations. The continuing tensions of the cold war and hostilities in Korea resolved the ambivalence in favor of coordinating in a single operation the techniques of both types of warfare. Colonel Paddocks extensively documented work traces a portion of a brief episode in our Nations military hisotyr, but an instructive one. For the historian and military scholar, it provides the necessary backdrop for understanding the subsequent evolution of the Armys special warefare capability. For the national security policymaker, it suggests the value of the innovative impulse and the need for receptivity to new ideas and adaptability to change. John S. Pustay Lieutenant General, United States Air Force President, National Defense University
U.S. Army Special Warfare, Its Origins
US Army Special Warfare
Author: Alfred H. Paddock
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Psychological and Unconventional Warfare, 1941-1952
Author: Alfred H. Paddock
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cold War
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cold War
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
U.S. Army Special Warfare
Author: Alfred H. Paddock
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Paddock also includes new sections on American psychological warfare in the Pacific, the Army Rangers, the 1st Special Service Force, and American-led guerrillas in the Philippines."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Paddock also includes new sections on American psychological warfare in the Pacific, the Army Rangers, the 1st Special Service Force, and American-led guerrillas in the Philippines."--BOOK JACKET.
Us Army Special Warfare, Its Origins, Psychological and Unconventional Warfare 1941-1952
Author: Alfred H. Paddock (Jr)
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780318201580
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780318201580
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Us Army Special Warfare, Its Origins, Psychological and Unconventional Warfare 1941-1952
Author: Alfred H. Paddock
Publisher: U.S. Government Printing Office
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
Publisher: U.S. Government Printing Office
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
US ARMY SPECIAL WARFARE: ITS ORIGIN - PSYCHOLOGICAL AND UNCONVENTIONAL WARFARE, 1941-1952
Psychological and Unconventional Warfare, 1941-1952: Origins of a Special Warfare Capability for the United States Army
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
This study examines the United States Army's activities in psychological and unconventional warfare during and after World War II to determine the impetus for, and origins of, the formal 'special warfare' capability created in 1952 with the establishment of the Psychological Warfare Center at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. With the impetus of the Korean War, heightening cold war tensions, and the persistent pressures of Secretary of the Army Frank Pace, Jr., the Army created an unprecedented staff organization in early 1951: the Office of the Chief of Psychological Warfare (OCPW). Under Brigadier General Robert A. McClure, the OCPW guided the build-up of psychological warfare and formulated plans for the creation of an organization unique in the Army's history: the 10th Special Forces Group. Designed to organize, train, and support indigenous personnel in behind-the-lines resistance activities to 'retard' a Soviet invasion in Europe, the Group's true historical forerunner--contrary to the official lineage of Special Forces--was the Office of Strategic Services, not the Rangers or the 1st Special Service Force. To provide the necessary training, materiel, and doctrinal support for both conventional and psychological warfare, McClure convinced the Army to establish the Psychological Warfare Center at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
This study examines the United States Army's activities in psychological and unconventional warfare during and after World War II to determine the impetus for, and origins of, the formal 'special warfare' capability created in 1952 with the establishment of the Psychological Warfare Center at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. With the impetus of the Korean War, heightening cold war tensions, and the persistent pressures of Secretary of the Army Frank Pace, Jr., the Army created an unprecedented staff organization in early 1951: the Office of the Chief of Psychological Warfare (OCPW). Under Brigadier General Robert A. McClure, the OCPW guided the build-up of psychological warfare and formulated plans for the creation of an organization unique in the Army's history: the 10th Special Forces Group. Designed to organize, train, and support indigenous personnel in behind-the-lines resistance activities to 'retard' a Soviet invasion in Europe, the Group's true historical forerunner--contrary to the official lineage of Special Forces--was the Office of Strategic Services, not the Rangers or the 1st Special Service Force. To provide the necessary training, materiel, and doctrinal support for both conventional and psychological warfare, McClure convinced the Army to establish the Psychological Warfare Center at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
US Army Special Warfare
Author: Alfred H.. Paddock
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Guerrilla warfare
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Guerrilla warfare
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
US Special Operations Forces in Action
Author: Thomas K. Adams
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 0714647950
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
This work argues for a shift in expectations for "unconventional warfare" with a greater willingness to accept lengthy commitments and incremental progress.
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 0714647950
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
This work argues for a shift in expectations for "unconventional warfare" with a greater willingness to accept lengthy commitments and incremental progress.