John Miller, a retired Marine colonel, is the author of The Bridge at Dong Ha and The CoVans: U.S. Marine Advisors in Vietnam. Following his 1985 retirement from the Marine Corps, he became Managing Editor of Proceedings and Naval History, a post he held until 2000.

Articles by John Miller

‘Old Bloody Hands’

By Colonel John Grider Miller, U.S. Marine Corps (Retired)
October 2000
In this excerpt from the new Naval Institute Press book, The Co Vans: U.S. Marine Advisors in Vietnam, the author recalls the ominous portent during Lam Son 719.

Don't Cut Military Education

By Colonel John G. Miller, U.S. Marine Corps (Retired)
April 2005
A 22 February United Press International story by Pentagon correspondent Pamela Hess reported that the secretary of Defense has asked the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to "cut ...
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JFK's Marines

By Colonel John G. Miller, U.S. Marine Corps (Retired)
February 2000
President John F. Kennedy puts the Marines of "Eighth and Eye" to a test in 1962; their next one comes on a November night 16 months later.

The Bridge at Dong Ha

By Colonel John Grider Miller, USMC (Ret.)
April 1989
Two NVA infantry divisions spearheaded by a large tank column were closing in on the town of Dong Ha, site of a key highway bridge across the Cua Viet.

Books by John Miller