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AB - Book Reviews 1345 A Raid Too Far: Operation Lam Son 719 and American helicopter pilots and crews who sup- Vietnamization in Laos. By James H. Will- ported their beleaguered allies. banks. (College Station: Texas A&M Univer- While Willbanks has mined thoroughly sity Press, 2014. xiv, 270 pp. $35.00.) American primary and secondary sources, his account of Lam Son 719 is distinguished by In February 1971 three divisions of the Army his use, in translation, of dozens of histories of the Republic of Vietnam (arvn), with and memoirs from the other side that are now American fi xed and rotary-wing air support, available to scholars. Drawing on this materi- attacked Laos. Code named Lam Son 719, al, he documents that the North Vietnamese the operation aimed at temporarily blocking leaders anticipated the incursion into Laos well the Ho Chi Minh Trail supply route that sus- in advance. Besides defending their vital sup- tained North Vietnam’s war eff ort in South ply route, the North Vietnamese fought to de- Vietnam. President Richard M. Nixon initiat- stroy the South Vietnamese attackers, thereby ed this off ensive in hopes of preventing a ma- discrediting Vietnamization and possibly top- jor North Vietnamese attack in 
TI - A Raid Too Far: Operation Lam Son 719 and Vietnamization in Laos
JO - The Journal of American History
DO - 10.1093/jahist/jav032
DA - 2015-03-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/a-raid-too-far-operation-lam-son-719-and-vietnamization-in-laos-R0coxfPqsp
SP - 1345
EP - 1345
VL - 101
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
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