1st Edition

Chemical Warfare during the Vietnam War Riot Control Agents in Combat

By D. Hank Ellison Copyright 2011
216 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

216 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Prelude

Chapter 3: Operation Stomp

Chapter 4: Tunnels

Chapter 5: Escalation

Chapter 6: Niches

Chapter 7: Urban Combat

Chapter 8: Communist Operations

Chapter 9: Conclusion

Appendices

Biography

D. Hank Ellison has served in the US Army as an enlisted infantry soldier and a commissioned officer in the Chemical Corps, responsible for nuclear, biological, and chemical defense for infantry and artillery battalions. He is a hazardous materials instructor for Michigan State University’s School of Criminal Justice.

Chemical Warfare during the Vietnam War will be of interest to those studying the war or the history of tear gas use in military and police operations. It should be in the library of any institution with programs involving chemical weapons and defense.
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