The nation that will insist upon drawing a broad line of distinction between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking by cowards.
-- Sir William Francis Butler
This monograph is an account of the operations of armored units of the United States army in the Republic of Vietnam. The term “armored units” as used here is generic and includes tank and mechanized infantry battalions and companies, armored cavalry squadrons and troops, and air cavalry squadrons and troops – all forces whose primary “modus operandi” was to fight mounted.