AUSA’s Thought Leaders livestream series—an extension of our Thought Leaders podcast—will temporarily take the place of the General Bernard W. Rogers Strategic Issues Forum and General Lyman L. Lemnitzer Lecture Series.
With a tight focus on senior military leaders and contemporary military authors, Thought Leaders seeks to educate the public on critical issues affecting land forces and strategy. Please join us on Friday, 24 July 2020 at 1000 to hear a presentation by Mr. Don Snedeker author of The Blackhorse in Vietnam: The 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment in Vietnam and Cambodia, 1966-1972.
Speaker
Don Snedeker
Author, The Black Horse in Vietnam: The 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment in Vietnam and Cambodia, 1966-1972
Agenda
- Friday, 24 July 2020
1000–1100
About the Book
How did Blackhorse troopers overcome the Vietnamese enemy, jungle terrain and weather? In The Blackhorse in Vietnam: The 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment in Vietnam and Cambodia, 1966-1972, Donald Snedeker, a second-generation Blackhorse trooper, shows how the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment proved the value of armored forces against an insurgency as they faced the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army for more than five years.
Snedeker served as the speechwriter for the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (Admiral William Crowe and General Colin Powell) from 1989 to 1990, and currently serves as the historian for the 11th Armored Cavalry Veterans of Vietnam and Cambodia.