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 2008-06-01. Iraq and the Lessons of Vietnam available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 U.S. 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, celebrated historians Marilyn B. Young and Lloyd Gardner have assembled a distinguished group to consider how America has again found itself in the midst of a war in which there is no chance of a speedy victory or a sweeping regime change. Iraq and the Lessons of Vietnam explores how the "Vietnam Syndrome" fits into the contemporary debate about the purpose and exercise of American power in the world. With contributions from some of the most renowned analysts of American history and foreign policy, this is an essential recovery of the forgotten and misbegotten lessons of Vietnam. Contributors: Christian G. Appy Andrew J. Bacevich David Elliott Alex Danchev Elizabeth L. Hillman Gabriel Kolko Walter LaFeber Wilfried Mausbach Alfred W. McCoy Gareth Porter John Prados Marilyn B. Young
Lessons from the Vietnam War
Lessons from the Vietnam War - 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 Lessons from the Vietnam War write by Leonard M. Scruggs. This book was released on 2009. Lessons from the Vietnam War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Lessons from the Vietnam War: Truths the Media Never Told You, decorated Vietnam veteran Leonard M. Scruggs tells the gripping and ultimately tragic story of America's military involvement in Southeast Asia from 1960 to its heartbreaking conclusion in 1975.
In Retrospect
In Retrospect - 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 In Retrospect write by Robert Mcnamara. This book was released on 2017-09-06. In Retrospect available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER. The definitive insider's account of American policy making in Vietnam. "Can anyone remember a public official with the courage to confess error and explain where he and his country went wrong? This is what Robert McNamara does in this brave, honest, honorable, and altogether compelling book."—Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. Written twenty years after the end of the Vietnam War, former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's controversial memoir answers the lingering questions that surround this disastrous episode in American history. With unprecedented candor and drawing on a wealth of newly declassified documents, McNamara reveals the fatal misassumptions behind our involvement in Vietnam. Keenly observed and dramatically written, In Retrospect possesses the urgency and poignancy that mark the very best histories—and the unsparing candor that is the trademark of the greatest personal memoirs. Includes a preface written by McNamara for the paperback edition.
Dereliction of Duty
Dereliction of Duty - 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 Dereliction of Duty write by H. R. McMaster. This book was released on 2011-03-01. Dereliction of Duty available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The war in Vietnam was not lost in the field, nor was it lost on the front pages of the New York Times or the college campuses. It was lost in Washington, D.C." —H. R. McMaster (from the Conclusion) Dereliction Of Duty is a stunning analysis of how and why the United States became involved in an all-out and disastrous war in Southeast Asia. Fully and convincingly researched, based on transcripts and personal accounts of crucial meetings, confrontations and decisions, it is the only book that fully re-creates what happened and why. McMaster pinpoints the policies and decisions that got the United States into the morass and reveals who made these decisions and the motives behind them, disproving the published theories of other historians and excuses of the participants. A page-turning narrative, Dereliction Of Duty focuses on a fascinating cast of characters: President Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, General Maxwell Taylor, McGeorge Bundy and other top aides who deliberately deceived the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the U.S. Congress and the American public. McMaster’s only book, Dereliction of Duty is an explosive and authoritative new look at the controversy concerning the United States involvement in Vietnam.
The Lessons of Vietnam
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 The Lessons of Vietnam write by Willard Scott Thompson. This book was released on 1977. The Lessons of Vietnam available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
