Planning A Tragedy The Americanization Of The War In Vietnam
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Planning A Tragedy The Americanization Of The War In Vietnam
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Author : Larry Berman
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 1983-08-17
Planning A Tragedy The Americanization Of The War In Vietnam written by Larry Berman and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983-08-17 with History categories.
"Takes an historically important decision, places it in its immediate stream of policy development, perceptions and events and adds what was missing from the Pentagon Papers."—Richard E. Neustadt, Harvard University "A thoroughly researched and highly perceptive study of the decisions that turned the tribal struggle in Vietnam into an American war. Berman's book fully documents the role of domestic policy in our tragic involvement. As one who watched the process at firsthand. I commend Professor Berman's book for its fairness and insight."— George W. Ball
A Tragic War
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Author : Thomas M Lemberg
language : en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2023-06-14
A Tragic War written by Thomas M Lemberg and has been published by Independently Published this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-06-14 with categories.
This is a work of literature about the Americanization of the Vietnam War under the presidency of Lyndon Johnson. One major dimension of the human condition is tragic and that the Americanization of the war and Lyndon Johnson's role relating to Vietnam were a tragedy. It was a disaster for the people of Vietnam and America. Yet, the people who launched it were men of intelligence and ability doing what they believed was right and important, that God was on their - our - side. They were the representatives of a nation not only great in power but, for all its faults, then great in moral stature. Their beliefs and actions were those that dominated their time and place. And, still, their mission utterly failed, wreaking death and destruction and undermining the social fabrics of both countries. It is easy to say that they erred, that this could have been avoided - many said so at the time. But, they did what they did with much thought and without being evil or perverse. The world is still paying the price. The novella follows the progress of the war from the decision to send American ground troops and bombers in early 1965 to Johnson's refusal to escalate further and to withdraw from the election of 1968 after the Tet offensive of that year and aftermaths of that decision. It is seen through the eyes of Johnson, his council of war, his young aide, young Americans in the peace movement and soldiers on both sides. Other wars have been tragic: Thucydides wrote one of the world's great tragedies about the conduct of Athens in the Peloponnesian War in the form of the war's history. The tragedy of Vietnam has had consequences which have shaped much of the subsequent world and whose meaning transcends its time. It calls for telling.
Lyndon Johnson S War The Road To Stalemate In Vietnam
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Author : Larry Berman
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 1991-04-17
Lyndon Johnson S War The Road To Stalemate In Vietnam written by Larry Berman and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991-04-17 with History categories.
"Stunning....The portrait of the embattled and unyielding president that emerges is vivid and memorable."—Publishers Weekly By 1968, the United States had committed over 525,000 men to Vietnam and bombed virtually all military targets recommended by the joint Chiefs of Staff. Yet, the United States was no closer to securing its objectives than it had been prior to the Americanization of the war. The long-promised light at the end of the tunnel was a mirage. This absorbing account reveals the bankruptcy of the bombing campaign against North Vietnam, the failures of political reform in South Vietnam and the bitter bureaucratic conflicts between the US government and its military commanders.
Perfect Spy
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Author : Larry Berman
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2009-10-13
Perfect Spy written by Larry Berman and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-13 with History categories.
The extraordinary story of North Vietnam’s most successful spy During the Vietnam War, Time reporter Pham Xuan An befriended everyone who was anyone in Saigon, including American journalists such as David Halberstam and Neil Sheehan, the CIA's William Colby, and the legendary Colonel Edward Lansdale—not to mention the most influential members of the South Vietnamese government and army. None of them ever guessed that he was also providing strategic intelligence to Hanoi, smuggling invisible ink messages into the jungle inside egg rolls. His early reports were so accurate that General Giap joked, "We are now in the U.S. war room." In Perfect Spy, Larry Berman, who Pham Xuan An considered his official American biographer, chronicles the extraordinary life of one of the twentieth century's most fascinating spies.
The Tragedy Of Vietnam
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Author : Patrick J. Hearden
language : en
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
Release Date : 2005
The Tragedy Of Vietnam written by Patrick J. Hearden and has been published by Longman Publishing Group this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Indochina categories.
Provides the social, economic, ideological, diplomatic, and military aspects of the Vietnam War.
Into The Quagmire
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Author : Brian VanDeMark
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1995-05-18
Into The Quagmire written by Brian VanDeMark and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-05-18 with History categories.
In November of 1964, as Lyndon Johnson celebrated his landslide victory over Barry Goldwater, the government of South Vietnam lay in a shambles. Ambassador Maxwell Taylor described it as a country beset by "chronic factionalism, civilian-military suspicion and distrust, absence of national spirit and motivation, lack of cohesion in the social structure, lack of experience in the conduct of government." Virtually no one in the Johnson Administration believed that Saigon could defeat the communist insurgency--and yet by July of 1965, a mere nine months later, they would lock the United States on a path toward massive military intervention which would ultimately destroy Johnson's presidency and polarize the American people. Into the Quagmire presents a closely rendered, almost day-by-day account of America's deepening involvement in Vietnam during those crucial nine months. Mining a wealth of recently opened material at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and elsewhere, Brian VanDeMark vividly depicts the painful unfolding of a national tragedy. We meet an LBJ forever fearful of a conservative backlash, which he felt would doom his Great Society, an unsure and troubled leader grappling with the unwanted burden of Vietnam; George Ball, a maverick on Vietnam, whose carefully reasoned (and, in retrospect, strikingly prescient) stand against escalation was discounted by Rusk, McNamara, and Bundy; and Clark Clifford, whose last-minute effort at a pivotal meeting at Camp David failed to dissuade Johnson from doubling the number of ground troops in Vietnam. What comes across strongly throughout the book is the deep pessimism of all the major participants as things grew worse--neither LBJ, nor Bundy, nor McNamara, nor Rusk felt confident that things would improve in South Vietnam, that there was any reasonable chance for victory, or that the South had the will or the ability to prevail against the North. And yet deeper into the quagmire they went. Whether describing a tense confrontation between George Ball and Dean Acheson ("You goddamned old bastards," Ball said to Acheson, "you remind me of nothing so much as a bunch of buzzards sitting on a fence and letting the young men die") or corrupt politicians in Saigon, VanDeMark provides readers with the full flavor of national policy in the making. More important, he sheds greater light on why America became entangled in the morass of Vietnam.
Choosing War
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Author : Fredrik Logevall
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2023-09-01
Choosing War written by Fredrik Logevall and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-01 with History categories.
In one of the most detailed and powerfully argued books published on American intervention in Vietnam, Fredrik Logevall examines the last great unanswered question on the war: Could the tragedy have been averted? His answer: a resounding yes. Challenging the prevailing myth that the outbreak of large-scale fighting in 1965 was essentially unavoidable, Choosing War argues that the Vietnam War was unnecessary, not merely in hindsight but in the context of its time. Why, then, did major war break out? Logevall shows it was partly because of the timidity of the key opponents of U.S. involvement, and partly because of the staunch opposition of the Kennedy and Johnson administrations to early negotiations. His superlative account shows that U.S. officials chose war over disengagement despite deep doubts about the war's prospects and about Vietnam's importance to U.S. security and over the opposition of important voices in the Congress, in the press, and in the world community. They did so because of concerns about credibility—not so much America's or the Democratic party's credibility, but their own personal credibility. Based on six years of painstaking research, this book is the first to place American policymaking on Vietnam in 1963-65 in its wider international context using multiarchival sources, many of them recently declassified. Here we see for the first time how the war played in the key world capitals—not merely in Washington, Saigon, and Hanoi, but also in Paris and London, in Tokyo and Ottawa, in Moscow and Beijing. Choosing War is a powerful and devastating account of fear, favor, and hypocrisy at the highest echelons of American government, a book that will change forever our understanding of the tragedy that was the Vietnam War.
Us Foreign Policy Decision Making From Truman To Kennedy
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Author : A. Hybel
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2014-03-12
Us Foreign Policy Decision Making From Truman To Kennedy written by A. Hybel and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-12 with Political Science categories.
The book has three objectives: to expose students to the ways different US presidents handled major foreign policy making problems; to test the explanatory value of alternative decision-making models; And to reintroduce students to a wide range of critical US foreign policy issues.
An Asian Tragedy
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Author : David Detzer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
An Asian Tragedy written by David Detzer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Examines the Vietnam War, from the early struggle of the Vietnamese against foreign domination to American intervention and the aftermath of the conflict.
The War Bells Have Rung
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Author : George C. Herring
language : en
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Release Date : 2015-07-28
The War Bells Have Rung written by George C. Herring and has been published by University of Virginia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-28 with History categories.
In the summer of 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson faced an agonizing decision. On June 7, General William Westmoreland had come to him with a "bombshell" request to more than double the number of existing troops in Vietnam. LBJ, who wished to be remembered as a great reformer, not as a war president, saw the proposed escalation for what it was—the turning point for American involvement in Vietnam. This is one of the most discussed chapters in modern presidential history, but George Herring, the acknowledged dean of Vietnam War historians, has found a fascinating new way to tell this story—through the remarkable legacy of LBJ’s taped telephone conversations. Underused until now in exploring Johnson’s decision making in Vietnam, the phone conversations offer intimate, striking, and sometimes poignant insights into this ordeal. Johnson emerges as a fascinating character, obligated to pursue victory in Vietnam but skeptical that it is even possible, the whole while watching his plans for domestic reform threatened. The president walks a fine line between a military he must placate and a Congress whose support he must maintain as he tries to implement his Great Society legislation. The reader can see the flaws in the Cold War sensibility contributing to Johnson’s tragic attempt to hold ground against an enemy with whom he had no leverage. The cast includes many of the era’s most iconic players, such as Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, General Westmoreland ("I have a lot riding on you," LBJ tells him—"I hope you don’t pull a MacArthur on me!"), House minority leader Gerald Ford, anti-war advocate Robert Kennedy ("I think you’ve got to sit down and talk to Bobby," LBJ tells McNamara), and former president Eisenhower, a valuable contact in the Republican camp. A concise, inside look at seven critical weeks in 1965—presented as a Rotunda ebook linking to transcripts and audio files of the original presidential tapes— The War Bells Have Rung offers both student and scholar a vivid and accessible look at a decision on which LBJ’s presidency would pivot and that would change modern American history. Miller Center Studies on the Presidency is a new series of original works that draw on the Miller Center's scholarly programs to shed light on the American presidency past and present.