Why Vietnam Matters : An Eyewitness Account of Lessons Not Learned
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Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1682473104
ISBN-13
9781682473108
Publisher
Naval Institute Press
Imprint
Naval Institute Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 28th, 2017
Print length
448 Pages
Weight
802 grams
Dimensions
17.90 x 25.40 x 3.80 cms
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Offers an extraordinary inside history of the most critical years of American involvement in Vietnam, from 1954 to 1968, and explains why it still matters. Describing what went right and then wrong, Rufus Phillips finds that America’s failure to understand the Communists, the South Vietnamese, or even itself took it down the wrong road of a conventional war until it was too late.
Rufus Phillips offers an extraordinary inside history of the most 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 contends that our failure to understand the Communists, our South Vietnamese allies, or even ourselves took us down the wrong road of a conventional war until it was too late-we missed the war''s essential political character. Documenting the story from his own personal files, now available at the Texas Tech Vietnam Archive, as well as from the historical record, the former government official paints striking portraits of such key figures as John F. Kennedy, Maxwell Taylor, Robert McNamara, Henry Cabot Lodge, Hubert Humphrey, and Ngo Dinh Diem, among others with whom he dealt.
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