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Norman Podhoretz retells the story of how and why the United States went to war in Vietnam and how and why it was driven out. Highlighting the major turning points of the war, Podhoretz takes us on a fascinating journey through the entire series of ideas, policies and decisions that led to America's escalating involvement and eventual defeat. He also reviews the ideas of people who called those decisions immoral or criminal, as well as the arguments...
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Prologue -- 1 Inheritance -- 2 New tactics -- 3 Third offensive -- 4 Intelligence -- 5 Pacification -- 6 Interdiction -- 7 Tet 1969 -- 8 Drawdown -- 9 Higher hurdles -- 10 Resolution 9 -- 11 Leaders -- 12 Cambodia -- 13 Victory -- 14 Toward Laos -- 15 Lam Son 719 -- 16 Aftermath -- 17 Elections -- 18 Soldiers -- 19 Anticipation -- 20 Easter offensive -- 21 Transition -- 22 Cease-fire -- 23 Final days -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Glossary -- Notes...
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What went wrong in Vietnam? Applying the principles of war (based on the classic On War by Carl von Clausewitz) to the actual conduct of the fighting in Vietnam, the author provides some cogent answers to this question. It is not possible to do justice to the comprehensive nature of this author's arguments in a summary. However, among the points he raises are: the differences between the civilian planning done by government bureaucracy and the actual...
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Interviews with men who earned the Congressional Medal of Honor during the Vietnam War recall the horrors and costs of the war, the men and women who died, and the difficulty of returning to a homeland caught up in anti-war fervor. The hard-hitting tales of these veterans bring to life the realities of combat: a mosaic of courage, fear, and sheer endurance.
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This book contains the legal documents in two related cases challenging the constitutionality of the Vietnam War. Congress was deceived about plans to bomb North Vietnam as early as Feb., 1964. Thus the period of congressional deception by the Executive branch lasted from early 1964 until the summer of 1965, when American ground trooops began to arrive in force in Vietnam. At that point a new relationship between the president and Congress was created,...
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The author examines the critical years of American involvement in Vietnam, from 1954 to 1968, and explains why it still matters. Describing what went right and then wrong, he argues that the United States missed an opportunity to help the South Vietnamese develop a political cause as compelling as that of the Communists by following a "big war" strategy based on World War II perceptions. This led American policy makers to mistaken assumptions that...
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This landmark work, based on Frances FitzGerald's own research and travels in Southeast Asia in the era of the Vietnam War, takes us inside Vietnam--into the traditional, ancestor-worshiping villages and the corrupt crowded cities, into the conflicts between Communists and anti-Communists, Catholics and Buddhists, generals and monks--and reveals the country as if through Vietnamese eyes. With clarity and authority, Fire in the lake shows how America...
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As the year 1965 began, U.S. policymakers were deeply worried about the situation in Vietnam and divided about what should be done about it. Many feared that South Vietnam could not be saved, but in the context of the global war on communism, few believed that it was politically and strategically acceptable for the United States to allow South Vietnam to fall without putting up more of a fight. If the United States was truly dedicated to the preservation...
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In the mid-eighteenth century, red and white Americans commenced a struggle to determine which race would be sovereign in the "Old Northwest," as the Great Lakes and Ohio Valley was once known. The nearly fifty years of strife that ensued were filled with hundreds of hit-and-run raids by small partisan bands, occasional battles between armies of warriors and soldiers, and innumerable acts of treachery, terrorism, and torture. When the fighting was...
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