To Build as Well as Destroy - 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 To Build as Well as Destroy write by Andrew J. Gawthorpe. This book was released on 2018-12-15. To Build as Well as Destroy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For years, the so-called better-war school of thought has argued that the United States built a legitimate and viable non-Communist state in South Vietnam in the latter years of the Vietnam War and that it was only the military abandonment of this state that brought down the Republic of Vietnam. But Andrew J. Gawthorpe, through a detailed and incisive analysis, shows that, in fact, the United States failed in its efforts at nation building and had not established a durable state in South Vietnam. Drawing on newly opened archival collections and previously unexamined oral histories with dozens of U.S. military officers and government officials, To Build as Well as Destroy demonstrates that the United States never came close to achieving victory in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Gawthorpe tells a story of policy aspirations and practical failures that stretches from Washington, D.C., to the Vietnamese villages in which the United States implemented its nationbuilding strategy through the Office of Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development Support known as CORDS. Structural factors that could not have been overcome by the further application of military power thwarted U.S. efforts to build a viable set of non-Communist political, economic, and social institutions in South Vietnam. To Build as Well as Destroy provides the most comprehensive account yet of the largest and best-resourced nation-building program in U.S. history. Gawthorpe's analysis helps contemporary policy makers, diplomats, and military officers understand the reasons for this failure. At a moment in time when American strategists are grappling with military and political challenges in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria, revisiting the historical lessons of Vietnam is a worthy endeavor.
Destroy, Build, Secure
Destroy, Build, Secure - 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 Destroy, Build, Secure write by Will Jackson. This book was released on 2017-03-25. Destroy, Build, Secure available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Destroy, Build, Secure argues that pacification has been essential to the survival of capitalism and that we need to take the concept seriously.
To Build as Well as Destroy: American Nation Building in South Vietnam
To Build as Well as Destroy: American Nation Building in South 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 To Build as Well as Destroy: American Nation Building in South Vietnam write by . This book was released on . To Build as Well as Destroy: American Nation Building in South Vietnam available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps
How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps - 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 How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps write by Ben Shapiro. This book was released on 2020-07-21. How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! A growing number of Americans want to tear down what it’s taken us 250 years to build—and they’ll start by canceling our shared history, ideals, and culture. Traditional areas of civic agreement are vanishing. We can’t agree on what makes America special. We can’t even agree that America is special. We’re coming to the point that we can’t even agree what the word America itself means. “Disintegrationists” say we’re stronger together, but their assault on America’s history, philosophy, and culture will only tear us apart. Who are the disintegrationists? From Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States to the New York Times’ 1619 project, many modern analyses view American history through the lens of competing oppressions, a racist and corrupt experiment from the very beginning. They see American philosophy as a lie – beautiful words pasted over a thoroughly rotted system. They see America’s culture of rights as a façade that merely reinforces traditional hierarchies of power, instead of being the only culture that guarantees freedom for individuals. Disintegrationist attacks on the values that built our nation are insidious because they replace each foundational belief, from the rights to free speech and self-defense to the importance of marriage and faith communities, with nothing more than an increased reliance on the government. This twisted disintegrationist vision replaces the traditional “unionist” understanding that all Americans are united in a shared striving toward the perfection of universal ideals. How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps shows that to be a cohesive nation we have to uphold foundational truths about ourselves, our history, and reality itself—to be unionists instead of disintegrationists. Shapiro offers a vital warning that if we don’t recover these shared truths, our future—our union—as a great country is threatened with destruction.
The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House
The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House - 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 Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House write by Audre Lorde. This book was released on 2018-05-31. The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the self-described 'black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet', these soaring, urgent essays on the power of women, poetry and anger are filled with darkness and light. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.
