By S.Smith
Применение мобильных подразделений американской армии в Юго-Восточной Азии в 70-х годах прошлого столетия. Компиляция автора из различных источников. Рассматриваются операции парашютистов в Камбодже и Вьетнаме, в других странах региона. К тексту описаний боевых действий прилагаются таблицы эмблем и знаков различия частей. описаны шевроны и нашивки элитных рот парашютистов США. Автор останавливается также на рассказероли вспомогательных частей кхмеров, помогавшим американцам во время Вьетнамской войны.
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The Board was an elite group chaired by the director of the office. When it was formed it had seven members- four historians, an economist, a lawyer and a former combat commander. For most of its existence there were ten to twelve members. When ONE was disbanded in I973, half of the Board was made up of former intelligence officers, some of whom had come up through the staff, the others were retired military men, former foreign service officers and academics. The Board was serviced by a staff of some fifty professionals which was later reduced to about thirty.
37 There is a greater continuity amongst the civilian analysts, but the DIA still has trouble recruiting high-quality civilians who tend to show a preference for the CIA where the possibilities for advancement are much higher. Many of the 'civilians' recruited by the DIA are, in fact, retired military officers. One Pentagon official, describing the Directorate as a 'moderately high quality effort' suggested that the fact that it was taken by 'people at the top' to be such an achievement was mainly a comment on what had gone before.
In an agreement with the State Department ORR was given responsibility for economic research on the Soviet bloc. An Economic Research Area (ERA) was formed in ORR, organised by Max Millikan, an economics professor from MIT, and this soon became the driving force of CIA's analytical effort. An Office of Scientific Intelligence (OSI) had been created in 1949· The military wished to keep it to basic research, away from work on research leading to weapons development which they considered their own prerogative.