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Publisher/Org.: Varies: Empire ; Primedia ; Cowles ; Weider ; HistoryNet-World

General Note: 1988- / Bimonthly numbering: June-1 ; August-2 ; October-3 ; December-4 ; February-5 ; April-6 / Publisher Varies: Empire, Primedia Enthusiast, Cowles, Weider, HistoryNet-World / Quarterly Summer 1988-Summer 1989

Existence: December 1989

General Note: 8 Fighting Forces: AT 13 cence per round, Army and Marine snipers were among the most cost-effective 'weapons systems' of the war.
10 Arsenal: There was nothing 'guerrilla war' about North Vietnam's heavy artillery. To those in range, it was the 'king of battle'
16 Personality: As in all armies, leadership was the key to ARVN success- unfortunately there was not enough of it.
54 Book Reviews: New scholarship on Vietnam reveals it was Lyndon Johnson's war whether he liked it or not.
62 Perspectives: Inferno on the USS Forrestal: More deadly than any enemy is a fire at sea.
22 The Tragic Commander: One of the finest fighting men of World War II and a soldier's soldier, Creighton Abrams had the difficult task of withdrawing the U.S. military from Vietnam.
30 The War America Would Win: An internal and an external war raged simultaneously in Vietnam. The internal war against the Viet Cong was won, but in the end the external war against North Vietnam proved decisive.
38 Invasion Repelled: The North Vietnamese Army though it could just march south across the DMZ. Brigadier General Lowell English's Marine Task Force had other ideas.
46 Tigers, Blue Dragons and White Horses: The second largest Allied contingent in the war, the soldiers and marines of the Republic of Korea's tow infantry divisions and marine brigade were a fiercesome fighting force.

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Citation: Vietnam, 278Serial139988. December 1989, William E. Kirkland Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University, https://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=278Serial139988, Accessed 24 Jan 2026.

Pub Credit Line: 278Serial139988, William E. Kirkland Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University

Vietnam Center & Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive