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Vietnam: The Necessary War: A Reinterpretation of America's Most Disastrous Military Conflict

Autor Michael Lind
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 21 oct 2002
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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780684870274
ISBN-10: 0684870274
Pagini: 336
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.35 kg
Ediția:Reprint
Editura: Free Press
Colecția Free Press

Notă biografică

Michael Lind is a senior fellow at the New America Foundation and the Washington editor of Harper's Magazine. He is also the author of five previous books, including The Next American Nation and Up from Conservatism. He has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, Foreign Affairs, The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, The New Republic, and other publications. He holds a master's degree in international relations from Yale University and a law degree from the University of Texas. He lives in Washington, D.C.

Cuprins

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

Descriere

One of America's leading intellectuals presents a startling thesis sure to provoke controversy: that the Vietnam War was the right war at the right time, with the wrong military strategy.