Unheralded Victory
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Unheralded Victory
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Author : Mark W. Woodruff
language : en
Publisher: Collins
Release Date : 2000
Unheralded Victory written by Mark W. Woodruff and has been published by Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Vietnam categories.
Unheralded Victory is a revisionist history of the Vietnam war, charting the defeat of the Viet Cong. It investigates why the popular image of the war then, as now, is that propagated by Hanoi's propoganda machine, and why US propaganda was so clumsy. Many myths are debunked: drug use among forces, fragging, US morale: the author's account squares with the recollection of actual veterans. He also exposes a number of eyewitnesses - some active in the veterans' organizations who were never in Vietnam and whose false testimony has contributed to enduring myth of the crazed 'Nam veteran as portrayed in cinema and TV.
Unheralded Victory
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Author : Mark W. Woodruff
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
Unheralded Victory written by Mark W. Woodruff and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with History categories.
"Unheralded Victory is the true, but rarely acknowledged, history of the defeat of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army at the hands of the American and Allied troops from 1961 through 1973. It chronicles, in detail, the virtual annihilation of the Viet cong by the late 1960s. the book then recounts the first wholesale introduction of North Vietnamese Army troops onto the battlefield in 1964 and American's response--the landing of U.S. ground forces in early 1965. Battle by battle, from Ia Drang through Khe Sanh through the Linebacker Operations, Unheralded Victory presents a convincing and accurate picture of the American victory."--Publisher's description .
Failing To Win
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Author : Dominic D. P. Johnson
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2009-07-01
Failing To Win written by Dominic D. P. Johnson and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07-01 with Political Science categories.
How do people decide which country came out ahead in a war or a crisis? Why, for instance, was the Mayaguez Incident in May 1975--where 41 U.S. soldiers were killed and dozens more wounded in a botched hostage rescue mission--perceived as a triumph and the 1992-94 U.S. humanitarian intervention in Somalia, which saved thousands of lives, viewed as a disaster? In Failing to Win, Dominic Johnson and Dominic Tierney dissect the psychological factors that predispose leaders, media, and the public to perceive outcomes as victories or defeats--often creating wide gaps between perceptions and reality. To make their case, Johnson and Tierney employ two frameworks: "Scorekeeping," which focuses on actual material gains and losses; and "Match-fixing," where evaluations become skewed by mindsets, symbolic events, and media and elite spin. In case studies ranging from the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis and the current War on Terror, the authors show that much of what we accept about international politics and world history is not what it seems--and why, in a time when citizens offer or withdraw support based on an imagined view of the outcome rather than the result on the ground, perceptions of success or failure can shape the results of wars, the fate of leaders, and the "lessons" we draw from history.
Empires At War
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Author : Francis Pike
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2011-02-28
Empires At War written by Francis Pike and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02-28 with History categories.
Asia - with four billion people, almost two-thirds of the world's population, a huge landmass and the fastest-growing economies - has in the past decade transformed the geopolitical global balance. "Empires at War" gives a dramatic narrative account of how this 'Modern Asia' came into being. Taking the bombing of Hiroshima on 6th August 1945 as its starting point, Francis Pike chronicles the modern fortunes of fourteen Asian countries. The iconic figures of post-World War II Asia - Mao, Gandhi, Nehru, Ho Chi Minh, Kim Il Sung, General MacArthur and Lord Mountbatten - figure prominently but so also do a great many lesser-known but pivotal figures. Francis Pike weaves the dramatic events and episodes of the region - the great battles between American and Soviet-backed forces in Korea and Vietnam but also episodes such as Indian 'Partition', Japan's 'Lost Decade', Indonesia's 'Year of Living Dangerously' and Cambodia's 'Killing Fields' - into a coherent whole, which forms the essential guide to the history of modern Asia.
Victory In War
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Author : William C. Martel
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2011-06-13
Victory In War written by William C. Martel and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-13 with Political Science categories.
War demands that scholars and policy makers use victory in precise and coherent terms to communicate what the state seeks to achieve in war. The failure historically to define victory in consistent terms has contributed to confused debates when societies consider whether to wage war. This volume explores the development of a theoretical narrative or language of victory to help scholars and policy makers define carefully and precisely what they mean by victory in war in order to achieve a deeper understanding of victory as the foundation of strategy in the modern world.
Defining And Achieving Decisive Victory
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language : en
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
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Defining And Achieving Decisive Victory written by and has been published by DIANE Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
Defining And Achieving Decisive Victory
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Author : Colin S. Gray
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
Defining And Achieving Decisive Victory written by Colin S. Gray and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Strategy categories.
"The author explores the concept of victory in the war in terrorism, but he does so by placing it within the larger currents of change that are sweeping the global security environment. He contends that the time-tested idea of decisive victory is still an important one, but must be designed very carefully in this dangerous new world. To do so correctly can provide the foundation for an effective strategy. To fail to do so could be the first step toward strategic defeat."--SSI site.
Infantry
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Infantry written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Infantry categories.
A Clash Of Cultures
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Author : Orrin Schwab
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2006-08-30
A Clash Of Cultures written by Orrin Schwab and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-08-30 with History categories.
The Vietnam War was in many ways defined by a civil-military divide, an underlying clash between military and civilian leadership over the conflict's nature, purpose and results. This book explores the reasons for that clash—and the results of it. The relationships between the U.S. military, its supporters, and its opponents during the Vietnam War were both intense and complex. Schwab shows how the ability of the military to prosecute the war was complicated by these relationships, and by a variety of nonmilitary considerations that grew from them. Chief among these was the military's relationship to a civilian state that interpreted strategic value, risks, morality, political costs, and military and political results according to a different calculus. Second was a media that brought the war—and those protesting it—into living rooms across the land. As Schwab demonstrates, Vietnam brought together two leadership groups, each with very different operational and strategic perspectives on the Indochina region. Senior military officers favored conceptualizing the war as a conventional military conflict that required conventional means to victory. Political leaders and critics of the war understood it as an essentially political conflict, with associated political risks and costs. As the war progressed, Schwab argues, the divergence in perspectives, ideologies, and political interests created a large, and ultimately unbridgeable divide between military and civilian leaders. In the end, this clash of cultures defined the Vietnam War and its legacy for the armed forces and for American society as a whole.
The Politically Incorrect Guide To The Vietnam War
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Author : Phillip Jennings
language : en
Publisher: Regnery Publishing
Release Date : 2010-02-23
The Politically Incorrect Guide To The Vietnam War written by Phillip Jennings and has been published by Regnery Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-02-23 with Political Science categories.
Shatters culturally accepted myths of the Vietnam War as it reveals the truth about the battles, players, and policies of one of the most controversial wars in U.S. history.