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Khe Sanh During Tet

For all of its strategic importance, Khe Sanh was not happily sit- uated for defense. The village was approximately six miles from the Laotian border and about ten miles south of the DMZ. It lay astride Route 9 on a plateau curving north between two ridges. It was on this level ground, complete with an old French landing - strip, that a Green Beret team built a post in 1962. The camp attention of the North Vietnamese. NVA regulars—18 was overlooked by numerous rugged peaks ranging from 881 to of 325C Division—moved in during April 1967, engaging the 1st Panzer Army Breakout 1,015 meters (2,900 to 3,300 feet) above sea level, 1,000 or more Marines in what became known as the “Hill Battles.” Marine 23 Mar-9 Apr 1944 N intelligence thought the attackers were only an ad hoc feet higher than the airstrip. Scrub-covered hills to the north th g Regiment u grouping of platoons, XXXX B and northeast—named for their height: 861, 861A, 881N (North), 1G and 881S (South)—dominated the camp. The ground between so Marines were XXXX the heights was heavily overgrown and crisscrossed by ravines. initially committed in 18 individual companies. XXXX Proskurov XXXX Marines took over the post in early 1966—the Green 291 96 Running up against 60 3G Berets moving west to Lang Vei—but never considered it 11 20 well-armed regulars XXXX XXX a permanent post due to its vulnerability. Westmoreland XXXX 16 Tarnopol 4 19 XXX in obscured terrain, 4 371 would have none of it and ordered it occupied by a full XXXX 59 XXX Zhimerinka they suffered heavily. 208 battalion, rechristening it Khe Sanh Combat Base (KSCB). Spring 1944 1 6 24 Bar Yarmolintsy The airstrip was enlarged to handle C-130 cargo planes, a Reinforcements Berezhany Trembovlya XXX 2 101 arrived by the end of 9 U XXX necessity as the supply line along Route 9 could be easily Z XXX Gorodok s . XXXX h XXXX April and the Marines L it 3 168 Map Key ip s cut. Outposts were established on the controlling heights. a Maus 1 a 38 ir 7 H 1G K Lake v . a S started deploying S L 100 XXX l e Ladoga i y r 1 Mar 1944 p XXX u Z e a s h b The increase in American activity did not escape the r Gusyatin 24 XXXX 17 a i full battalions. Hills front line 2 v g Budzanev a a 1 n FINLAND 10 861 and 881S fell iipuri 1 Jun 1944 V S V t XXX o front line u l d N first, then in early 23 k Chortkov ologda e e h V Dunayevtsy m o n XXXX v S i l Buchach t y Leningrad s 1 a May Hill 881N. The ikhvin S m T German retreat 367 y 40 t o a estr r XXX B Glaich ni y Skala t D r a XXXX p N i t North Vietnamese 21 a c y 254 i 46 a c h Soviet advance XXXX v h XXX 1 Kamenets- a Turku l a s Helsinki a 4 v Borshchuv u X Podolskiy k

XX 7 a R X v Gulf of Finland X 82 M 2S XX S Mogilev-Podol’skiy o XXX e u k r r Stanislau Ustsechko r e Leningrad e a RybinskGerman army group f Kostroma t XXXX a Narva Lu XXXX M ga Zb Hanko ru 27 c XXXX 2 allinn German army h T Luga Novgorod Yaroslavl 6 XXX Yampol XX a Horodenka L. Peipus g l German Panzer army tr Khotyn Bologoe o Dnies 42 3 Baltic V Brichen’sat 18 Romanian army 75 Dnest USSR 20 r Tartu Demyansk XXXX X Kolomea Miles Parnu 67 XXXX Hungarian army Map Key 40 Lipkany Kalinin 0 2 Baltic X 54 Valdai Hills XXXX Vladimir 23 Mar Front line Prut Klin Soviet front t 26 Mar Front line Südukraine 1S a - Kholm v Chernovtsy XXX o XX L Soviet army 9 Apr Front line a th y 22 Nor a k and AGA became AG Südukraine Gulf of i German counterattacks l Riga e V XX German retreats S (AGSU). The Carpathians had cre- XXX Kolomna iret Riga 3S Podolsk D Mozhaisk vina 16 1 Baltic ated an obvious new separation of the Bely a Soviet initial attacks Nevel Ok German line in the south, so control of Jelgava Soviet counterattacks moved abreast, each using 4S strike forces on his western front. The 6G 8.A was transferred to AGSU. Model’s - Dvinsk Korpsgruppen moved abreast, each using Liepaja Polotsk 43 39 Kaluga area of responsibility would include 10G Tula one corps to push west and the other as 3 Vitebsk X Hungary, Schörner’s Romania; each Siuliai 31 XXXX a rearguard to the east. Following the estern had stockpiled supplies, in this case commander would control the associ- 5 21 W Sukhinichi north bank of the Dnestr, the army had food and ammunition. He had also sent ated allied armies, just now returning Memel Orsha 68 to cross four rivers along its route. Soviet en iem lya most of his rear-area personnel, the vital to action after a year’s rebuilding. N i h Vilnius W Borisov 4 z Roslavl resistance fortunately was weak, though Kaunas B o The reorganization had no impact X e 10 S USSR logistic infrastructure of the army, south Tilsit XXXX rez elets ina Y Zhukov quickly made adjustments to Mogilev Orel Center 13 across the Dniestr to clear his battle area. on the escape of 1.PzA. First contact was Minsk Hube had planned to follow suit bring additional forces to bear on either X made with Hausser on 6 April, and all 63 XXXX Konigsberg a German flank. Like Stemmermann’s Bobruysk Rogachev sn with his fighting units once he was Suwalki 1 Byelorussian e - was already the army’s divisions made it out of the D “wandering pocket” but on a much Grodno 11G given permission to withdraw. Zhukov Panzerkorps pocket over the course of three days. All 9 larger scale, 1.PzA made its way west. 48 Gomel thought it the likely route as well and were intact, but only a handful remained Stary Oskol Hausser’s SS Panzerkorps was already Glukhov Bialystok weighted his perimeter guard accord- operational. Most of Hube’s tanks and arriving beyond Ternopol, though t 65 r Kalach p Novy Oskol Pripyet ripye ingly. Manstein had other ideas. A other heavy equipment had been lost, P Mosyr e Chernigov

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D Pinsk D S sk southerly retreat would take 1.PzA too Konotop o Do along with as many as 45,000 men Bug 61 l Rossosh n fully assembled. Moving east, it too Marshes XXX far south, leaving only 4.PzA to guard Brest XX (reports vary). Several divisions would Romny made slow but steady progress against (battlegroup) status, 1 Ukranian l his main depot at Lvov. He preferred be disbanded, several others reduced Warsaw 47 e Kupyansk s scattered Soviet resistance and harsh P Kharkov Kampfgruppe (battlegroup) status, Korosten X a westerly route, driving through the 46 to Kampfgruppe Kiev XXXX Millerovo 13 Lubny terrain. Some units were detached to 1 Poltava weak wall of the Soviet perimeter to and most of the rest were shadows. Kovel 60 2 Ukranian Lublin 3G assist Erhard Raus’ 4.PzA in a failed relief Radom Izyum join 4.PzA’s line south of Ternopol. Hube’s army was nevertheless Rovno 1G Zhitomir Krasnograd VoroshilovgradD Dn on of Ternopol, which had been encircled 18 Fastov epr Slavyansk e Manstein met with Hitler on 25 4 1 6 ts pressed back into service, his divisions KremenchugXXX with 4,500STQ8_V7.indd men inside 46 on 25 March. STRATEGY & TACTICS QUARTERLY #08 | WINTER 2019 40 Cherkassy XX Dubno 5G March and demanded—tact was never While Hube was still moving, Hitler performing an about-face to man the 27 3 Ukranian 52 Dnepropetrovsk Donbas Stalino 4G M his forté—permission to evacuate 1.PzA. Vinnitsa 53 Novocherkassk new front. Hausser and Hube’s strongest 1 Mar i Lvov Ternopol 7G u exacted a price for the constant calls Proskurov 57 s Hitler resisted just as vehemently, then units made another drive to Ternopol. Kirovograd Zaporozhye for retreats. The southern army group 1 Kamenets Uman 37 reversed himself two days later. He also As had happened at both Stalingrad and Przemysl -Podolsky commanders, Manstein and Kleist, were Krivoi Rog Nikopol r X Mariupol Dnes 46 nep XXXX promised reinforcements in the form of Cherkassy, the relief effort fell short and tr Bug D 63 XXXX Stanislau Balta 8G relieved of their commands along with X 4 Ukranian Hausser's 2.SSPzK, then just finishing an the garrison was called on to breakout. North P ru Hollidt of 6.A. Manstein’s place was taken t Balti Auffrischung (refreshment) in France. 1 Cernoutsy 6 Melitopol Hube had already begun prepara- by Model, then at AGN, while Hollidt was 51 Sea of Azov Kropotkin Tashlyk Nikolayev Kherson 5S replaced by Ferdinand Schörner. AGS Kishinev Tiraspol n Armavir tions for movement, reorganizing his Ca Iasi 9 ba 6/19/20 10:51 AM rp u at 6 2G Perekop Coastal K was renamed AG Nordukraine (AGNU) hi Kerch four corps into two Korpsgruppen, an 4 Razdelnya Odessa 56 M 8 Krasnodar Maikop 10/21/19 2:33 PM tn Tighina s Roman Crimea making liaison with the Luftwaffe for Bessarabia 18 Times that Try STQ8_V7.indd 47 S 3 STRATEGY & TACTICS QUARTERLY #08 | WINTER 2019 Bacau i Simferopol the airlanding of supplies, mostly fuel, STRATEGY & TACTICS QUARTERLY #10 | SUMMER 2020 re t Novorossysk XXX evpatoria XX Y and contracting his lines to concentrate South Caucasus Mtns Sevastopol Ukraine Galati Yalta German Evacuation of Crimea 17 Miles ROMANIA Ploesti 12 May 200 Men’s Souls Constanta View of the Tower of David—Jerusalem 47 Citadel—nearedge the of Jaffa the Gateold city on ofthe Jerusalem. western BUCHAREST e b u n a D STQ10_V7.indd 63 OML BELGRADE March 1776 to January 1777 The Delaware Regiment at the Battle of Long Island10/21/19 (27 2:33August PM 6/19/20 10:51 AM 1776). Delaware consisted of three sparsely populated counties on the Chesapeake peninsula. They had long been associated with Pennsylvania but were effectively autonomous by the outbreak STRATEGY & TACTICS QUARTERLY #10 | SUMMER 2020 of war, and would achieve statehood in 1776. The state never contributed more than a single regiment to the Continental Army at any one time, at one time just two companies strong, but its ranks included Robert Kirkwood, “the American Cincinnatus.” he military chessboard had been wiped nearly 62 three—would enable a town to grow, at some point clean as winter turned to spring, and even before earning the title “city” (though in Europe at least, the term Howe pulled out of Boston both sides were think technically referred to a town“I with am a consecrated worried cathedral). to death. ing ahead to the coming year. One clear change The cities described here were such places. Their stories centration, but the governor of North Carolina had organized repeat of the extemporizedwas that the coming operations campaign of 1775. would The notAmericans be a militia units to protect royal interests. Howe, while still in owns of the eleventh century generally were mirrored in those of the empires that came and hadT put their war effort on a solid footing, with Congress taking STQ10_V7.indd 62 I think the game is - Boston, was ordered to dispatch an expedition to North created little wealth. With exceptions like went around them, and went far toward describing the an active role in planning and procurement. Britain was stretch- Carolina, where it would be joined by the loyalists, plus seven the fabulously rich weaving towns of Mediterranean world at the end of the first millennium. ing its imperial muscle, dispatching men and ships to North Flanders, “industry” was highly localized regiments Cornwallis was bringing from the home country. - pretty near up.’’ America, and harnessing its global wealth. The result would be to support widespread agriculture, the Jerusalem a series of hammer blows to put an end to the colonial rebellion. Maj. Gen. Henry Clinton was chosen to lead the artisans living alongside their peasant The Levant is located at —Gen.the nexus George of Washington,three in a letter to his brother expedition, though delays kept him in Boston until neighbors in hamlets dotting the landscape. continents—Asia, Africa, andfollowing Europe—and the Continental acts Army’s as a defeat in New York Divide & Conquer mid-February. He sailed with a token detachment, stop- T crossroads for trade between them. Jerusalem was ping briefly in New York to consult with the governor, In London, Lord George Germain, Secretary of State also loyal, before continuing to his destination. Larger population centers drew sustenance from the sur not one of its great commercial entrepôts, being for America, saw the uprising—with some accuracy—as a rounding countryside. Riches came from the agricultural located in the Judean Hills dividing the coastal plain simple rebellion of fractious and fractured colonies, not a A month later Howe and the main army departed Boston for Halifax. There he was joined by a fleet commanded by surplus—drawn as taxes or rents—and from imposts on from the valley of the River Jordan. It was of some genuine national uprising. That was the single factor most his brother, Adm. Richard Howe, and troops more than trade passing through. Large sea or river ports could effec- local importance, though, occupying the junction of in Britain’s favor; large numbers of Americans still saw 26 tripling the size of his army. More would be forthcom- tively extend their tax base over the trade of entire regions. the north-south “Ridge Route” running the length of themselves as loyal subjects of the king protesting unjust ing, but the great distance from home—at best a six-week The real importance of towns was the role they played in the mountains, and an east-west route connecting the policies of British ministers. It was by all appearances con- crossing—meant there could be no rapid reinforcement society and culture, drawing the landowning class into the port of Jaffa (Haifa) with Jericho on the Jordan. The centrated in New England; there were stirrings elsewhere, but STQ9_V7.indd 26 STRATEGY & TACTICS QUARTERLY #09 | SPRING 2020 or exchange of information. Howe was on his own. more sophisticated urban life, and above all as centers of path from the coast ascended the valley of the River many colonies were still in the charge of loyal governors. government and religion, the latter two often conjoined. Sorek, one of the easier routes across the mountains. He knew time was short. Not only did rebellions have a habit The site of Jerusalem has signs of pre-Bronze Germain, 3,000 miles from the seat of war, was willing of expanding if not tamped down quickly, but Britain was frac Nations, using the term in its modern formulation, to leave most decisions up to his generals. He had reason to tured as well. The Whigs in Parliament at least sympathized and, did not yet exist. Polities, by whatever name they were Age habitation, probably because the Gihon Spring believe, however, that the southern states contained many in some cases, openly sided with the colonies. The Tory major known—kingdom, principality, duchy, county, electorate— provided a dependable water supply in an arid region. Loyalists. The burning of Norfolk had snuffed out one con- belonged to their rulers regardless of language, blood, or, By around 2000 BC it had become a Canaanite city, ity held together, but their power was by no means absolute. in some cases, religion. War and marriage might transfer and within a few centuries of that time had acquired Howe therefore aimed to crush the rebellion in a single stroke. - this or that town, with its associated hinterland, between a defensive wall. It fell under the sway of Egypt and New York, the largest city (25,000) and busiest port in North 13 rulers, but life for the average person changed not at all. America, was the key to this plan. 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