Chemical warfare during the Vietnam war : riot control agents in combat / D. Hank Ellison.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Routledge, 2011.Description: 202 pages ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780415876452 (pbk.) :
Subject(s): Summary: Chemical Warfare during the Vietnam War documents the use of antipersonnel chemical weapons throughout the Vietnam War, and explores their effectiveness under the wide variety of circumstances in which they were employed. The short, readable account follows the US program as it progressed from a focus on the humanitarian aspects of non-lethal weapons to their use as a means of augmenting and enhancing the lethality of traditional munitions. It also presents the efforts of the North Vietnamese to both counter US chemical operations and to develop a chemical capability of their own
Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.
Star ratings
    Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Defence Academy Library On-Shelf 959.70438 ELL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 41645-2001
Book Mindef Library & Info Centre On-Shelf 959.70438 ELL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 41645-1001

Chemical Warfare during the Vietnam War documents the use of antipersonnel chemical weapons throughout the Vietnam War, and explores their effectiveness under the wide variety of circumstances in which they were employed. The short, readable account follows the US program as it progressed from a focus on the humanitarian aspects of non-lethal weapons to their use as a means of augmenting and enhancing the lethality of traditional munitions. It also presents the efforts of the North Vietnamese to both counter US chemical operations and to develop a chemical capability of their own

Includes bibliographical references and index.

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.