Vietnam : the early decisions /
More than twenty years have passed since American military personnel finally withdrew from Vietnam, yet haunting questions remain about our involvement there. Perhaps the most persistent of these - and certainly the most unanswerable - is the question of what would have happened if President Kennedy...
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| Jezik: | engleski |
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Austi, Tex. :
University of Texas Press,
©1997.
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| Online pristup: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7560/728004 |
Sadržaj:
- Part one. The political context. Vietnam: an episode in the cold war / Robert A. Divine
- A way of thinking: the Kennedy administration's initial assumptions about Vietnam and their consequences / Brian VanDeMark
- From the Colorado to the Mekong / Lloyd C. Gardner
- Hanoi's response to American policy, 1961-1965: crossed signals? / William J. Duiker
- Part two. The military context. The zen of escalation: containment and commitment in Southeast Asia / John Prados
- Conspiracy of silence: LBJ, the Joint Chiefs, and escalation of the war in Vietnam / George C. Herring
- Part three. Kennedy and Johnson. Lyndon Johnson and the legacy of Vietnam / William Conrad Gibbons
- The Kennedy-Johnson transition: the case for policy reversal / John M. Newman
- NSAM 263 and NSAM 273: manipulating history / Larry Bernan
- Part four. The Soviet dimension. Turnabout? The Soviet policydilemma in the Vietnamese conflict / Ilya V. Gaiduk.