Format:
1 Online-Ressource (436 p)
Edition:
NONE
ISBN:
9780815726784
Series Statement:
Brookings Classic, A
Content:
Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Information -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Preface to the Classic Edition -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part One: Decisions: Getting into Vietnam -- Patterns, Dilemmas, and Explanations -- Recurrent Patterns and Dilemmas from Roosevelt to Eisenhower -- Picking Up the Torch: The Kennedy Administration -- Intervention in Force: The Johnson Administration, I -- Coming Home to Roost: The Johnson Administration, II -- Part Two: Goals: The Imperative Not to Lose -- National Security Goals and Stakes -- Domestic Political Stakes
Content:
The Bureaucracy and the Inner Circle -- Part 3: Means: The Minimum Necessary and the Maximum Feasible -- Constraints -- Pressures and the President -- Part Four: Perceptions: Realism, Hope, and Compromise -- Optimism, Pessimism, and Credibility -- The Strategy of Perseverance -- Part Five: Conclusions -- The Lessons of Vietnam -- Documentary Appendix -- Bibliographical Note -- Notes -- Index -- Back Cover
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780815726791
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780815726784
Additional Edition:
Print version Gelb, Leslie H The Irony of Vietnam : The System Worked New York : Brookings Institution Press,c2016 ISBN 9780815726784
Language:
English
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