Accession Number:

AD0460449

Title:

RIVERINE WARFARE

Descriptive Note:

Summary translations

Corporate Author:

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS WASHINGTON DC AEROSPACE TECHNOLOGY DIV

Personal Author(s):

Report Date:

1964-10-06

Pagination or Media Count:

16.0

Abstract:

Summaries are presented of two items dealing with French experiences with riverine warfare in Indochina in 1946-47 and 1954. The first period is described by Jean Mauclere in the monograph Marins dans les arroyos Sailors in Inland Waterways and the second article by Louis Julien-Binard, Memories of Nam-Dinh, in the Revue Maritime.

Descriptors:

• *INLAND WATERWAYS
• *RIVERS
• *VIETNAM
• COUNTERINSURGENCY
• FRANCE
• LANDING CRAFT
• LIMITED WARFARE
• TACTICAL WARFARE
• WARFARE

Subject Categories:

• Hydrology, Limnology and Potamology

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE