Vietnam, the necessary war : a reinterpretation of America's most disastrous military conflict

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Vietnam, the necessary war : a reinterpretation of America's most disastrous military conflict

Michael Lind

A Touchstone book published by Simon & Schuster, 2002, c1999

1st Touchstone ed

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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The Vietnam War still divides Americans. Some claim that Indochina was of no strategic value. Others argue that timid civilian leaders denied the U.S military permission to win. In this paradigm-shifting book, Michael Lind explodes both of these myths and puts the Vietnam War back in the context of Cold War power politics and American domestic politics. The Cold War, Lind argues, was the third world war, and the proxy wars in Korea, Indochina, and Afghanistan were among its major campaigns. However, the cost of the U.S military's misguided tactics in Vietnam undermined American public support for the Cold War on all fronts. The result was the forfeiture of Indochina, a resurgence of American isolationism, and a worldwide wave of Soviet bloc expansion checked only by the Second Cold War of the 1980's. Challenging the stale orthodoxies of the antiwar left and prowar right, VIETNAM: THE NECESSARY WAR offers a major reinterpretation of America's most disastrous foreign war.

目次

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

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