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smallwarsjournal
March 11, 2018
Serious students and responsible instructors of unconventional warfare have been re-reading Bing West's classic ("camera's eye") report for five decades because its remarkably productive and durable author -- a combat Marine, an Assistant Secretary of Defense under Ronald Reagan, a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, a ...
smallwarsjournal
March 11, 2018
Serious students and responsible instructors of unconventional warfare have been re-reading Bing West's classic ("camera's eye") report for five decades because its remarkably productive and durable author -- a combat Marine, an Assistant Secretary of Defense under Ronald Reagan, a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, a RANDÃÂ ...
smallwarsjournal (blog)
March 8, 2018
Small Wars Journal is kicking off an ambitious new project concerning the U.S. Marine Corps' Combined Action Program in Vietnam. I'll have much more on the larger project later, for now SWJ is jump-starting it with a call for several book reviews (2-3 or more) of Bing West's classic book The Village . First published in ...
smallwarsjournal (blog)
March 5, 2018
Small Wars Journal is kicking off an ambitious new project concerning the U.S. Marine Corps' Combined Action Program in Vietnam. I'll have much more on the larger project later, for now SWJ is jump-starting it with a call for several book reviews (2-3 or more) of Bing West's classic book The Village.
New York Times
December 15, 2017
In early December 1967, I returned from a patrol in the paddies south of Danang, South Vietnam, to see a squad clustered around a radio, glad to hear that Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara had resigned. At that time, Marines were fighting two vastly different wars on two fronts. Up north along theÃÂ ...
The Atlantic
June 30, 2017
Bing West; Jun 30, 2017; Global. Share; Tweet … LinkedIn; Email; Print. Text Size. Like The Atlantic? Subscribe to The Atlantic Daily, our free weekday email newsletter. A few weeks ago, the Atlantic Monthly Press released Mark Bowden's excellent book, Hue 1968, A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam.
smallwarsjournal
August 6, 2011
Bing West served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs in the Reagan administration. A graduate of Georgetown and Princeton Universities, he served in the Marine infantry. He was a member of the Force Recon team that initiated attacks behind North Vietnamese lines. He wrote ...
New York Times
April 15, 2011
No armchair general here: Bing West has climbed mountains in Afghanistan with American combat troops, watched rocket-propelled grenades streak over his head and come close to dying of cholera. At a lean and flinty 70, he can dodge bullets along with the 20-year-olds he accompanies on infantry ... War
New York Times
April 15, 2011
No armchair general here: Bing West has climbed mountains in Afghanistan with American combat troops, watched rocket-propelled grenades streak over his head and come close to dying of cholera. At a lean and flinty 70, he can dodge bullets along with the 20-year-olds he accompanies on infantry footÃÂ ... War
smallwarsjournal
December 31, 1999
As our best VSO operators (like Major Jim Gant and Colonel Bing West) have demonstrated: It is our moral duty to ensure that the communities with whom we are working will survive in our departure. Imparting the skill-sets for communal survival should be our primary (and highly-biased) objective. In Somalia, that meansÃÂ ... War
smallwarsjournal
December 31, 1999
Vietnam is often cited as an example of the "barbarization of warfare," that is the trend towards more horrific forms of armed struggle both among nations and non-state actors, with actions such as mass bombings or incidents such as My Lai being referred to.[ii] Although not so much discussed, CommunistÃÂ ... War
Military Times
December 31, 1999
As Bing West, a Marine combat veteran and former assistant secretary of defense wrote, when comparing Hue and the battle for Mosul, Iraq, “urban warfare remains characterized by slow, massive destruction.” For a long time, both the Marines and Army failed to do anything substantial to prepare forÃÂ ... War
New York Times
December 15, 2017
In early December 1967, I returned from a patrol in the paddies south of Danang, South Vietnam, to see a squad clustered around a radio, glad to hear that Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara had resigned. At that time, Marines were fighting two vastly different wars on two fronts. Up north along theÃÂ ... War
SFGate
November 29, 2017
... Vietnamese military division on the border with Laos — and to attack when the enemy least expected it. “They were considered to be the best operations we ever conducted in South Vietnam,” said military historian Bing West, a Marine Corps infantry officer during the war. “Of all the operations in Vietnam,ÃÂ ... War
CT Post
July 29, 2017
West is poised to follow a similar career path as his father, Bing West, who was assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs during the Reagan administration. The younger West said he first introduced himself to Blumenthal this spring at a fundraiser for the Greenwich YMCA, where theÃÂ ... War
CT Post
July 29, 2017
West is poised to follow a similar career path as his father, Bing West, who was assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs during the Reagan administration. The younger West said he first introduced himself to Blumenthal this spring at a fundraiser for the Greenwich YMCA, where theÃÂ ... War
The Atlantic
June 30, 2017
Bing West; Jun 30, 2017; Global. Share; Tweet … LinkedIn; Email; Print. Text Size. Like The Atlantic? Subscribe to The Atlantic Daily, our free weekday email newsletter. A few weeks ago, the Atlantic Monthly Press released Mark Bowden's excellent book, Hue 1968, A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam. War
Hollywood Reporter
March 14, 2017
The streaming service and studio are developing a TV take on the book of the same name by former Assistant Secretary of Defense Bing West. ... Based on the book One Million Steps: A Marine Platoon at War by Bing West, former assistant secretary of defense and marine combat veteran, the dramaÃÂ ... War
Business Insider
August 31, 2015
Reagan's former assistant defense secretary: Here's why US troops shouldn't be on the front lines in Iraq. The Washington Post. Bing West, The Washington Post. Aug. 31, 2015, 10:08 AM; 1,411. facebook ÷ linkedin ÷ twitter; email; print. Follow Business Insider:à... War
The San Diego Union-Tribune
July 3, 2015
Skip the muddled counterinsurgency critique and Bing West's sentimental reminiscences about his Vietnam glory days and jump straight to the heart of his latest book — an unflinching account of a Marine platoon dropped into the bloodiest battlefield of the Afghanistan War. In “One Million Steps: A MarineÃÂ ... War
smallwarsjournal
August 6, 2011
Bing West served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs in the Reagan administration. A graduate of Georgetown and Princeton Universities, he served in the Marine infantry. He was a member of the Force Recon team that initiated attacks behind North Vietnamese lines. He wrote theÃÂ ... War
New York Times
April 15, 2011
No armchair general here: Bing West has climbed mountains in Afghanistan with American combat troops, watched rocket-propelled grenades streak over his head and come close to dying of cholera. At a lean and flinty 70, he can dodge bullets along with the 20-year-olds he accompanies on infantry footÃÂ ... War
smallwarsjournal
December 31, 1999
Bing West, The Wrong War: Grit, Strategy, and the Way Out of Afghanistan, (New York: Random House, 2011), p. xii. [ix] Current doctrine stresses the need to protect civilians, for a mixture of reasons, even to the point of precedence over other goals. “Focused attention on CIVCAS mitigation is an importantÃÂ ... War
Chicago Tribune
July 29, 2017
... people familiar with Kelly urged White House aides and agency leaders to read books by conservative writer Bing West, a retired Marine, ... War
CT Post
July 29, 2017
West is poised to follow a similar career path as his father, Bing West, who was assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs ... War
The Atlantic
June 30, 2017
Bing West; Jun 30, 2017; Global. Share; Tweet … LinkedIn ... About the Author. Bing West is a former assistant secretary of defense and combat Marine. He has ... War
Hollywood Reporter
March 14, 2017
The streaming service and studio are developing a TV take on the book of the same name by former Assistant Secretary of Defense Bing West. ... Based on the book One Million Steps: A Marine Platoon at War by Bing West, former assistant secretary of defense and marine combat veteran, the drama ... War
Hollywood Reporter
March 14, 2017
The streaming service and studio are developing a TV take on the book of the same name by former Assistant Secretary of Defense Bing West. War
Task & Purpose
December 5, 2016
But Bing West, a Vietnam Marine who led hundreds of patrols in Vietnam, served as assistant secretary of defense for international security ... War
The San Diego Union-Tribune
September 15, 2016
Skip the muddled counterinsurgency critique and Bing West's sentimental reminiscences about his Vietnam glory days and jump straight to the ... War
Business Insider
August 31, 2015
US Soldiers Iraq U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Vince Foster from Bravo Company, 12th Infantry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division, provides security during a ... War
New York Times
April 15, 2011
BING WEST "The question isn't what the Marines or the Army do, the ... No armchair general here: Bing West has climbed mountains in ... War
New York Times
February 24, 2011
In his remarkable book, “The Wrong War,” Bing West goes a long way to answering that question. “The Wrong War” amounts to a crushing and ... War
New York Times
December 31, 1999
In early December 1967, I returned from a patrol in the paddies south of Danang, South Vietnam, to see a squad clustered around a radio, glad to hear that Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara had resigned. At that time, Marines were fighting two vastly different wars on two fronts. Up north along theÃÂ ... War
SFGate
December 31, 1999
“They were considered to be the best operations we ever conducted in South Vietnam,” said military historian Bing West, a Marine Corps infantry officer during the war. “Of all the operations in Vietnam, it was the most classic in that it caught the North Vietnamese totally by surprise. “First, the North ... War
Independent.ie
August 3, 2017
It has been a good first few days for Mr Kelly. Photo: Reuters/ 1 It has been a good first few days for Mr Kelly. Photo: Reuters/Joshua Roberts. War
CT Post
July 29, 2017
West is poised to follow a similar career path as his father, Bing West, who was assistant secretary of defense for international security affairsÃÂ ... War
Chicago Tribune
July 29, 2017
... people familiar with Kelly urged White House aides and agency leaders to read books by conservative writer Bing West, a retired Marine,ÃÂ ... War
The Atlantic
June 30, 2017
Bing West; Jun 30, 2017; Global. Share; Tweet … LinkedIn ... About the Author. Bing West is a former assistant secretary of defense and combat Marine. He hasÃÂ ... War
Hollywood Reporter
March 14, 2017
The streaming service and studio are developing a TV take on the book of the same name by former Assistant Secretary of Defense Bing West. War
Task & Purpose
December 5, 2016
But Bing West, a Vietnam Marine who led hundreds of patrols in Vietnam, served as assistant secretary of defense for international securityÃÂ ... War
Business Insider
August 31, 2015
US Soldiers Iraq U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Vince Foster from Bravo Company, 12th Infantry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division, provides security during aÃÂ ... War
New York Times
April 15, 2011
BING WEST "The question isn't what the Marines or the Army do, the ... No armchair general here: Bing West has climbed mountains inÃÂ ... War
Filmmaker Magazine
December 31, 1999
Mrs. Fang: Coming from Locarno, where it won the Golden Leopard, frequently duration-driven Chinese documentarian Wang Bing (West of theÃÂ ... War
Danbury News Times
December 31, 1999
... people familiar with Kelly urged White House aides and agency leaders to read books by conservative writer Bing West, a retired Marine,ÃÂ ... War
Telegraph.co.uk
December 31, 1999
The anecdote from The March Up, by the military writer and retired Marine Bing West, was offered as evidence of character. With bodies lying atÃÂ ... War
Eurasia Review
March 19, 2017
But according to Bing West in The Strongest Tribe, "McMaster's real success was not clearing and holding the city by setting up out posts," but by "overcoming the sectarian feud" that had previously rent the city. War
Dark Horizons
March 14, 2017
Hulu and A+E Studios are teaming to develop war drama series "One Million Steps" based on the book by former Assistant Secretary of Defense Bing West. The story explores one distinguished platoon in the United States Marine Corps., infantry Battalion 3 ... War
Hollywood Reporter
March 14, 2017
Based on the book One Million Steps: A Marine Platoon at War by Bing West, former assistant secretary of defense and marine combat veteran, the drama explores the story of one distinguished platoon in the United States Marine Corps. War
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