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Immigrant Warrior: A Challenging Life in War and Peace
Henrik Lunde grew up in Norway and came to the United States with his parents as a teenager. After completing high school, he attended the University of California at Berkeley, graduating in 1958 as the Honor Graduate in the History Department. He also received an appointment in the Regular Army.
After the Basic Infantry Officer, Ranger and Airborne courses, and his first duty station with the 2nd Battle Group, 6th Infantry Regiment in Berlin, Hank spent 18 months with a covert Special Forces unit in Berlin. In 1963 he attended the Infantry Officer Career Course at Fort Benning and was designated an Honor Graduate. He then attended the elite Pathfinder Course before reporting to Fort Campbell, Kentucky for assignment to the elite 101st Airborne Division.
He deployed to Vietnam with 1st Brigade, 101st Airborne Division, in 1965. For most of his tour he commanded a rifle company. On his return to the States Hank worked as Branch Chief at the Airborne Test Division at Fort Bragg. Still, at the end of 1967, he volunteered for the 9th Division in the Delta despite becoming disillusioned with the tactical/strategic conduct of the war. In the 9th Division, he served as Brigade S-3 and battalion executive officer. He then moved to the Vietnamese II Corps as deputy operations adviser.
After graduating from the Command and General Staff College in 1970, in the upper 10% of the class, he moved on to Syracuse University to obtain a master’s degree. He then returned to Vietnam in 1973, serving as Chief of Negotiations of the U.S. Delegation to the FPJMT set up by the 1973 Paris Peace Treaty to account for the dead and missing. After a year at the Political/Military Division of the Army General Staff with southeast Asia as his responsibility area Hank attended the U.S. Army War College as the second youngest student in 1975–76. From 1976 to 1979, he served in the Plans of Policy branch of Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe. His last assignment was as Director of National and International Security Studies for Europe at the Army War College. Colonel Lunde is highly decorated from his three tours in Vietnam.
Table of Contents
Introduction
1: Turbulent but Carefree Beginning
2: First Years in a New Country
3: Time of Preparation – Fort Benning 1958–1959
4: Brink of Armageddon – Berlin 1959–1961
5: Secret Assignment, Personal Problems and Refocusing 1961–1964
6: 1st Brigade, 101st Airborne Division
7: A Command in Disarray
8: Provisional Cavalry Troop – Battle of An Ninh
9: Phan Rang, Ben Cat, Iron Triangle, Tuy Hoa
10: Searching for and Finding the 95th NVA Regiment
11: Days of Flawed Decisions
12: Ambush – a Night of Terror
13: Operations 17 February to 4 April 1965
14: Phan Thiet and Bu Prang
15: Bu Gia Map Campaign 6-10 May
16: Battle of Bu Gia Map and Pursuit
17: Airborne Test Division – The War in 1967
18: Brigade S-3
19: Battalion Executive Officer
20: Deputy G3 Adviser, II ARVN Corps
21: Schooling and Battalion Command
22: Chief of Negotiation, US Delegation FPJMT
23: Pentagon and U.S. Army War College
24: SHAPE, USAWC, and Retirement
Notes
Bibliography
After the Basic Infantry Officer, Ranger and Airborne courses, and his first duty station with the 2nd Battle Group, 6th Infantry Regiment in Berlin, Hank spent 18 months with a covert Special Forces unit in Berlin. In 1963 he attended the Infantry Officer Career Course at Fort Benning and was designated an Honor Graduate. He then attended the elite Pathfinder Course before reporting to Fort Campbell, Kentucky for assignment to the elite 101st Airborne Division.
He deployed to Vietnam with 1st Brigade, 101st Airborne Division, in 1965. For most of his tour he commanded a rifle company. On his return to the States Hank worked as Branch Chief at the Airborne Test Division at Fort Bragg. Still, at the end of 1967, he volunteered for the 9th Division in the Delta despite becoming disillusioned with the tactical/strategic conduct of the war. In the 9th Division, he served as Brigade S-3 and battalion executive officer. He then moved to the Vietnamese II Corps as deputy operations adviser.
After graduating from the Command and General Staff College in 1970, in the upper 10% of the class, he moved on to Syracuse University to obtain a master’s degree. He then returned to Vietnam in 1973, serving as Chief of Negotiations of the U.S. Delegation to the FPJMT set up by the 1973 Paris Peace Treaty to account for the dead and missing. After a year at the Political/Military Division of the Army General Staff with southeast Asia as his responsibility area Hank attended the U.S. Army War College as the second youngest student in 1975–76. From 1976 to 1979, he served in the Plans of Policy branch of Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe. His last assignment was as Director of National and International Security Studies for Europe at the Army War College. Colonel Lunde is highly decorated from his three tours in Vietnam.
Table of Contents
Introduction
1: Turbulent but Carefree Beginning
2: First Years in a New Country
3: Time of Preparation – Fort Benning 1958–1959
4: Brink of Armageddon – Berlin 1959–1961
5: Secret Assignment, Personal Problems and Refocusing 1961–1964
6: 1st Brigade, 101st Airborne Division
7: A Command in Disarray
8: Provisional Cavalry Troop – Battle of An Ninh
9: Phan Rang, Ben Cat, Iron Triangle, Tuy Hoa
10: Searching for and Finding the 95th NVA Regiment
11: Days of Flawed Decisions
12: Ambush – a Night of Terror
13: Operations 17 February to 4 April 1965
14: Phan Thiet and Bu Prang
15: Bu Gia Map Campaign 6-10 May
16: Battle of Bu Gia Map and Pursuit
17: Airborne Test Division – The War in 1967
18: Brigade S-3
19: Battalion Executive Officer
20: Deputy G3 Adviser, II ARVN Corps
21: Schooling and Battalion Command
22: Chief of Negotiation, US Delegation FPJMT
23: Pentagon and U.S. Army War College
24: SHAPE, USAWC, and Retirement
Notes
Bibliography
400 pages, Hardcover
Published March 30, 2023
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About the author
Henrik O. Lunde
12 books14 followersHENRIK O. LUNDE, was born in Norway, moved to America as a child and thence rose in the U.S. Army to become a Colonel in Special Forces. Highly decorated for bravery in Vietnam, he proceeded to gain advance degrees and assume strategic posts, his last being in the Plans and Policy Branch of Supreme Headquarters, Allied Powers Europe. After retirement from the Army he turned to writing, with a focus on his native North, and given his combination of personal tactical knowledge plus objective strategic grasp has authored several groundbreaking works. These include Hitler's Pre-Emptive War, about Norway 1940, Finland's War of Choice, and Hitler's Wave-Breaking Concept, which analyzes the controversial retreat of Germany's Army Group North from the Leningrad front in WWII. In A Warrior Dynasty he re-examines the potential of pure military skill in global affairs. His next, long-awaited work, will examine how America itself has fared in this regard during the last 50 years.
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