Michael Lind

Vietnam the Necessary War

A Reinterpretation of America's Most Disastrous Military Conflict

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Produktbeschreibung

What went wrong in Vietnam? Michael Lind casts new light on one of the most contentious episodes in American history in this controversial bestseller. In this groundgreaking reinterpretation of America's most disatrous and controversial war, Michael Lind demolishes enduring myths and put the Vietnam War in its proper context -- as part of the global conflict between the Soviet Union and the United States. Lind reveals the deep cultural divisions within the United States that made the Cold War consensus so fragile and explains how and why American public support for the war in Indochina declined. Even more stunning is his provacative argument that the United States failed in Vietnam because the military establishment did not adapt to the demands of what before 1968 had been largely a guerrilla war. In an era when the United States often finds itself embroiled in prolonged and difficult conflicts in places like Afghanistan, Kosovo, Bosnia, and Iraq, Lind offers a sobering cautionary tale to Ameicans of all political viewpoints.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Free Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 475g
• ISBN-13: 9780684870274
• ISBN-10: 0684870274
• Artikelnr.: 21044464

Autorenporträt

Michael Lind

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1
The Indochina Theater
The Cold War in Southeast Asia, 1946-89
Chapter 2
Why Indochina Mattered
American Credibility and the Cold War
Chapter 3
Inflexible Response
The U.S. Military and the Vietnam War
Chapter 4
The Fall of Washington
The Domestic Politics of the Vietnam War
Chapter 5
Disinformation
Vietnam and the Folklore of the Antiwar Movement
Chapter 6
Credibility Gap
The Myth of the Presidential War
Chapter 7
Was the Vietnam War Unjust?
Chapter 8
The Genuine Lessons of the Vietnam War
Notes
Index