Iraq and Vietnam - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Iraq and Vietnam write by Jeffrey Record. This book was released on 2004. Iraq and Vietnam available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Iraq and the Lessons of Vietnam
Iraq and the Lessons of Vietnam - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Iraq and the Lessons of Vietnam write by Lloyd C. Gardner. This book was released on 2011-07-19. Iraq and the Lessons of Vietnam available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Essays by Christian G. Appy, Andrew J. Bacevich, John Prados, and others offer “history at its best, meaning, at its most useful.” —Howard Zinn From the launch of the “Shock and Awe” invasion in March 2003 through President George W. Bush’s declaration of “Mission Accomplished” two months later, the war in Iraq was meant to demonstrate definitively that the United States had learned the lessons of Vietnam. This new book makes clear that something closer to the opposite is true—that US foreign policy makers have learned little from the past, even as they have been obsessed with the “Vietnam Syndrome.” Iraq and the Lessons of Vietnam brings together the country’s leading historians of the Vietnam experience. Examining the profound changes that have occurred in the country and the military since the Vietnam War, this book assembles a distinguished group to consider how America found itself once again in the midst of a quagmire—and the continuing debate about the purpose and exercise of American power. Also includes contributions from: Alex Danchev * David Elliott * Elizabeth L. Hillman * Gabriel Kolko * Walter LaFeber * Wilfried Mausbach * Alfred W. McCoy * Gareth Porter “Essential.” —Bill Moyers
Vietnam in Iraq
Vietnam in Iraq - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Vietnam in Iraq write by David Ryan. This book was released on 2007-01-24. Vietnam in Iraq available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. More than most post-1970 conflicts involving US forces, the conflict in Iraq has been fought out against a background of frequently invoked memories from the era of the Vietnam War. The essays in this book offer a series of perspectives on connections and parallels between the Vietnam War and the 2003 invasion of, and conflict in, Iraq. The contributors particularly examine the impact of the Vietnam analogy on the War in Iraq, assessing the military tactical lessons learned from the Vietnam War and exploring the influence and persistence of its legacy in US politics, culture and diplomacy. The volume holds up to original interrogation some commonly held assumptions about historical analogy, and several distinguished authorities on the Vietnam War era, in particular, offer their thoughts on the value and applicability of Vietnam-Iraq parallels. If most contributions point out some obvious dissimilarities between the two eras, notably the transformed post-Cold War international environment, the similarities, particularly those relating to the problems of cultural misunderstanding, are also apparent. Vietnam in Iraq will be of great interest for all students and researchers of the Iraq War, strategic studies, international relations and American politics.
Tale of Two Quagmires
Tale of Two Quagmires - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tale of Two Quagmires write by Kenneth J. Campbell. This book was released on 2015-12-03. Tale of Two Quagmires available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Is Iraq becoming another Vietnam? Author Kenneth Campbell received a Purple Heart after serving 13 months in Vietnam. He then spent years campaigning to get the US out of the war. Here, Campbell lays out the political similarities of both wars. He traces the chief lessons of Vietnam, which helped America successfully avoid quagmires for thirty years, and explains how neoconservatives within the Bush administration cynically used the tragedy of 9/11 to override the "Vietnam syndrome" and drag America into a new quagmire in Iraq. In view of where the U.S. finds itself today -- unable to stay but unable to leave -- Campbell recommends that America re-dedicate itself to the essential lessons of Vietnam: the danger of imperial arrogance, the limits of military force, the importance of international and constitutional law, and the power of morality.
Iraq, Vietnam, and the Limits of American Power
Iraq, Vietnam, and the Limits of American Power - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Iraq, Vietnam, and the Limits of American Power write by Robert K. Brigham. This book was released on 2008-07-22. Iraq, Vietnam, and the Limits of American Power available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The book that answers the question on everybody's mind--with wisdom and authority that cannot be ignored
