Perils of dominance : imbalance of power and the road to war in Vietnam /
Gareth Porter presents a new interpretation of how and why the US went to war in Vietnam. He provides a challenge to the prevailing explanation that US officials adhered blindly to a Cold War doctrine that loss of Vietnam would cause a 'domino effect' leading to communist dominance of the...
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press
©2005.
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| On-line přístup: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1pn777 |
Obsah:
- The imbalance of power, 1953-1965
- The Soviets and Chinese appease the United States
- Eisenhower and Dulles exploit U.S. dominance in Vietnam
- North Vietnamese policy under the American threat
- Kennedy's struggle with the national security bureaucracy
- Johnson, McNamara and the Tonkin Gulf crisis
- Bureaucratic pressures and the decisions for war
- Dominoes, bandwagons and the road to war.