The MOUT Homepage Vietnam Site

Asymmetrical Warfare and the Transnational Threat: Relearning the Lessons of Vietnam (Canadian Forces College)
Urban Warrior - A View from North Vietnam (LtCol Robert Lamont, USMC, Marine Corps Gazette)
The Marine War: III MAF in Vietnam 1965-1971 (USMCHC)
Grunt! Wargaming Vietnam (Articles - Tactics)
Vietnamese Defense Against Aerial Attack
This Ain't No Marine Barracks Duty (Assault on the Village of Dinh To)
Village Attitudes During the Final Decade of the War
The Assault on the Village of An Lac and Dai Do
The Draude Story (MarineLINK - attack on a hamlet)
The Battle for Hue (Brigadier General Edwin H. Simmons, USMC Ret.)
The Battle for Hue (Notes from the Urban Warrior Commander's Conference)
Armor Evens the Odds in Two Urban Battles: A Tale of Two Cities - Hue and Khorramshahr (Armor)
The Battle for Hue City (Proceedings)
Hue City Map
Tet In Hue (THN)
Mean Streets (Hue, excerpt from Fire in the Streets)
A Marine's Tour of Duty (Hue)
Marine's Sacrifice in the Battle of Hue (Sgt. Alfredo Gonzalez)
The Ballad of Freddy Gonzalez (Hue)
Vietnam Tanker Forum (Q&A - includes Hue)
Marines and the Battle of Hue Photo Gallery (Combat images)
The Enemy Lets Me Take His Picture (Life - Feb. 16, 1968 - Hue)
Vietnam: Tet at Hue (Photo Gallery)
Tet Offensive Diorama (Urban warfare scene)
Witness to Hue
A Chaplain Remembers the Battle for Hue
Father Aloysius P. McGonigal: Battlefield Hero Without a Gun (Hue)
The Third Brigade's Fight for Hue
The Activities of Task Force "A" in 1968 (RVN Marine Corps - Hue)
The Battle for Hue: Casualty and Disease Rates During Urban Warfare (Short abstract from Military Medicine)
Veterans Remember Three-decades Old Offensive (Abilene Reporter-News, Hue)
Legacy of Tet Still Strong (Associated Press, Hue)
Vietnam: A Television History of Tet (1968) (Transcript)
Tet Veterans Remember Vicious Surprise (Tet - Hue)
Seabee History (Includes Hue and other Seabee operations in Vietnam - infrastructure construction in a war zone)
U.S. Army in Vietnam: The Tet Offensive (Hue, Saigon)
Vietnam: A Television History - Tet 1968 (Transcript)
Behind Enemy Lines (THN - American Diplomat trapped in Hue)
30th Anniversary of the Hue Massacre
Massacre at Hue (The battle and the Viet Cong/NVA massacre)
The 1968 "Hue Massacre" (A revisionist version of NLF and NVA massacre of RVN civilians)
Tet: The Battle for Hearts and Minds (Military Review - review of ABC video)

The CAP related sites are included because of the cultural implications and lessons learned for future MOUT. For all the planning we might undertake to overcome the enemy and the urban infrastructure - to ignore the people - is a sure recipe for disaster. This is what Marine General Anthony Zinni (CINC - USCENTCOM) calls "cultural intelligence."

The CAP Web Site is maintained by the Combined Action Platoon (CAP) and Combined Action Company (CAC) Marine and Navy veterans - 1965-1971.

Col. John E. Greenwood, Editor of the Marine Corps Gazette sums it up this way: "Marines used their Combined Action and Combined Unit Pacification Programs to great advantage in Vietnam. These programs paired a squad of Marines with a platoon of South Vietnamese militia forces and assigned the resulting combined units to provide security in specific hamlets or villages. The merger of the Marine's firepower, tactical expertise, training skills, communications, and reinforcement capabilities with the militia's knowledge of the local area and people multiplied the effectivness of both elements. Depending upon the specific crisis scenario, this technique could have numerous applications - patrolling, providing security for critical facilites and infrastructure, manning food distribution points, searching suspected hostile areas, and collecting intelligence are only the more obvious activities that would benefit from a combined approach."

U.S. Marine Corps Civic Action Efforts in Vietnam: March 1965 - March 1966 (Capt. Russel Stolfi)
A New Kind of War (LtGen Victor Krulak - CAP Web Site)
Fast Rifles (Marine Corps Gazette - Capt. F. J. West, Jr. - CAP Web Site)
A Handful of Marines (Civic Action - CAP Web Site)
The Velvet Glove - Combined Action Platoons (CAP Web Site)
Combined Action and U.S. Marine Experiences in Vietnam 1965-71 (Major Phillip J. Ridderhof)
The War's 'Constructive Component' (Peter Brush - Vietnam, civic action)
CAP 2-7-2
CAP 2-7-10
Alpha CAPs
An American Military Advisor Returns (THN, Mobile Advisory Team)
SOG III (MACV Studies and Observations Group - Terrorism in Saigon)
SOG VII (Tet Offensive - Part One - Saigon)
SOG VIII (Tet Offensive - Part Two - Saigon)
The Tet Offensive
Tet 68: Attack on the American Embassy
The Tet Offensive of 1968 (U.S. Army Military Police - Saigon)
Knocking on Heaven's Door (Tet - Saigon)
TET: Jan 31, 1968 (Saigon)
The Communist's Tet Offensive and the Marine Counterattack (Republic of Vietnam Marine Corps - Saigon)
Tet In Pleiku (THN)
Surprised at Tet: U.S. Naval Forces in Vietnam - 1968 (NHC - Naval Intelligence)
More About the 1968 Tet Offensive
Lessons Learned: Vietnam, Tet and America 30 Years Later
Tunnel Rats (Operating in the subterranean)
I Remember (A USDAO reflects on 1973-1975)
The Fall of Saigon Web Site (Numerous articles on the last days of the American Embassy and presence in Saigon under "Our Story")
Last Flight Out of Saigon
Saigon: The Final 10 Days (Time)
Vietnam (Australia's involvement)
Advancing to Quang Tri (RVN Marine Corps)
20,000 Rounds of Artillery a Day (RVN Marine Corps - Quang Tri City)
Recapturing the Old Citadel (RVN Marine Corps - Quang Tri City)
Victory Flag Over the Old Quang Tri Citadel (RVN Marine Corps)
The Battle of Quang Tri (RVN Marine Corps)
Marine Artillery in the Battle of Quang Tri (RVN Marine Corps)
The Communist Assault on Quang Tri (RVN Marine Corps)
Vietnamese Marine Corps History (Multiple battles)
The Easter Offensive of 1972: A Failure to Use Intelligence (MIPB)
Battlefield: Vietnam (PBS - resources)

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