The Approaching Storm: Conflict in Asia, 1945-1965: Conflict in Asia, 1945-1965

by Edward J. Marolda, Naval History & Heritage Command (U.S.) (Compiler)

Overview

America’s participation in the Vietnam conflict dates to the waning days of World War II, when certain victory over Japan prompted the Allies and Asian peoples of many ideological persuasions to change the political landscape. France, Great Britain, the Netherlands, and other European countries planned to reestablish control over their colonies in China, India, and Southeast Asia. Anticolonial resistance movements, in many cases led by Communists, prepared for military and political action to seize control of Korea, China, and Indochina. This book focuses on events in the region between 1945 and 1965 and the growing U.S. concern over Communist inroads into the region. From the Chinese civil war to the French-Indochina war and the rise of Ho Chi Minh, this book describes U.S. response to the Communist movements in Asia and how the U.S. Navy’s role evolved from an advisory one to actual combat after the Tonkin Gulf attack of August 1964. 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780160928604
Publisher:	United States Dept. of Defense
Publication date:	05/01/2015
Series:	The U.S. Navy and the Vietnam War , #1
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	157
Sales rank:	333,585
File size:	33 MB
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Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Edward J. Marolda has served as the Acting Director of Naval History and the Chief of the Histories and Archives Division of the Naval Historical Center, designated in December 2008 as the Naval History and Heritage Command. Dr. Marolda has written a number of books on the U.S. Navy’s modern experience in Southeast Asia, including From Military Assistance to Combat, 1959–1965, vol. 2 in the official series The United States Navy and the Vietnam Conflict; By Sea, Air, and Land: The United States Navy and the War in Southeast Asia; Aircraft Carriers, no. 4 in the Bantam series The Illustrated History of the Vietnam War; and Operation End Sweep: A History of Minesweeping in North Vietnam. He inaugurated and then served as series editor for the Command’s commemorative booklets on the Navy in Korea and the follow-on anthology The U.S. Navy in the Korean War (Naval Institute Press, 2007). A lecturer on military and naval history, he is also coauthor of Shield and Sword: The United States Navy and the Persian Gulf War (Naval Institute, 2001) and author of an illustrated history of the Washington Navy Yard. He holds degrees in history from Pennsylvania Military College (BA), Georgetown University (MA), and George Washington University (PhD).

Table of Contents

Preface 
Introduction 
Emerging Communist Threats in Asia 
Conflict in the Far East 
The French Indochina War 
Growing U.S. Concerns about Southeast Asia 
Changing of the Guard in South Vietnam 
Hanoi Opens the Campaign for South Vietnam and Laos 
U.S. Naval Assistance to South Vietnam 
The U.S. Navy and Counterinsurgency Warfare 
U.S. Naval Forces Join the Fight 
Bringing the War to North Vietnam 
Combat in the Gulf of Tonkin 
On the Eve of War 

Editorial Reviews

Library Journal 5/15/2010

"Digital Dreams and Dashboards: Notable Government Documents 2009

The Approaching Storm: Conflict in Asia, 1945–1965. by Edward J. Marolda. Naval History & Heritage Command. 2009. 84p. illus. maps. SuDoc # D221.2:AS4. GPO Stock # 008-046-00247-9. ISBN 978-0-945274-57-5. pap. $16.

This concise publication, richly illustrated with photographs and written for a general audience, examines the roots of the Vietnam War and describes the U.S. Navy's role in that conflict through 1965."

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