The Vietnam War 1st Edition by James Willbanks 9780815398370 0815398379

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ISBN 10: 0815398379

ISBN 13: 9780815398370

Author: James H. Willbanks

The Vietnam War remains one of the most contentious events in American history. This book is a collection of essays that seeks to examine the current state of scholarship on the war and its aftermath. It is divided into five sections which address American presidents and the war, the conduct of the war in the field, the impact of the Tet Offensive, the meaning of the war and its lasting legacies. The purpose of the collection is to present the most recent contributions to the continuing academic and scholarly dialogue about one of the most momentous historical events of the twentieth century.

Table of contents:

PART I US PRESIDENTS AND THE VIETNAM WAR

1 What did Eisenhower tell Kennedy about Indochina? The Politics of Misperception

2 Vietnam: Mr Johnson’s War – or Mr Eisenhower’s?

3 The Mythology Surrounding Lyndon Johnson, his Advisers, and the 1965 Decision to Escalate the Vietnam War

4 Lyndon Johnson and Vietnam

5 Differing Evaluations of Vietnamization

6 Public Opinion and Foreign Policy: The Nixon Administration and the Pursuit of Peace with Honor in Vietnam

7 Nixon’s Nuclear Ploy

PART II PROSECUTION OF THE WAR

8 To Change a War: General Harold K. Johnson and the PROVN Study

9 Winning the Vietnam War: Westmoreland’s Approach in Two Documents

10 Calley’s Ghost

11 The Attack on Cap Mui Lay, Vietnam, July 1968

12 North Vietnam’s Final Offensive: Strategic Endgame Nonpareil

PART III TET AND KHE SANH

13 Khe Sanh – from the Perspective of the North Vietnamese Communists

14 The Meaning of Tet

15 Appropriating Tet

PART IV LOOKING BACK ON THE VIETNAM WAR

16 Why the United States Fought in Vietnam

17 “Dominos”, Dynamos, and the Vietnam War

18 How We Won in Vietnam

19 Vietnam in Retrospect: Could We Have Won?

PART V LEGACIES OF THE VIETNAM WAR

20 What Are the Lessons of Vietnam?

21 Presidential Decisionmaking and Vietnam: Lessons for Strategists

22 Vietnam, American Foreign Policy, and the Uses of History

23 In the Shadow of the Dragon: Doctrine and the US Army after Vietnam

24 The “Unlessons” of Vietnam

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