"I made mistakes" : Robert McNamara's Vietnam War policy, 1960-1968 /
Speaking to an advisor in 1966 about America's escalation of forces in Vietnam, Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara confessed: 'We've made mistakes in Vietnam ... I've made mistakes. But the mistakes I made are not the ones they say I made'. In 'I Made Mistakes'...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Idioma: | anglès |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2019.
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| Col·lecció: | Cambridge studies in US foreign relations.
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| Accés en línia: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2046156 |
Taula de continguts:
- The history of the OSD, 1947-1961
- Civilian control
- Continuity and change
- Taking charge of Vietnam policy
- When military problems become economic problems
- The fall of 1963
- McNamara's transition into the Johnson Administration
- Decisions, indecisions, visions and revisions
- McNamara in crisis, 1966-1968
- Conclusion.