1. Technology and Strategy: The War in Vietnam
Isaac Keister
History Senior Thesis
Primary Reader: Dr. John Rector
Secondary Reader: Dr. Patricia Goldsworthy

2. Agenda Technology and Strategy Historiography
Interservice Conflict and the Cold War Army
Politics and the War
Turning point: The Battle for the Ia Drang
Conclusions

3. Technology and Strategy: The War in Vietnam

4. Historiography Cold-War Scholars Russel Weigley Andrew Krepenevich
Post Cold-War
Ian Horwood
Gregory Daddis

5. Tet Offensive: 30 Jan 68
1954: Battle of Dien Bien Phu
1962: Howze Tactical Mobility Board
1965: Battle for the Ia Drang Valley
1968: Tet Offensive
1973: Paris Peace Accords
1975: Saigon Falls

6. Turning Point: Battle for the Ia Drang
17 November 1965
1st Battalion, 7th Regiment of the 1st Cavalry Division
Proved the validity of air-mobile concept
Instantly regarded as a “classic" battle