Vietnam : : The Early Decisions /

Vietnam : : The Early Decisions / / ed. by Ted Gittinger, Lloyd C. Gardner.

Haunting questions remain about our involvement in Vietnam. Perhaps the most persistent of these is whether President Kennedy would have ended American involvement in Vietnam if he had lived. For many Americans, Oliver Stone's film JFK left no doubt that before his assassination Kennedy had det...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2000
MitwirkendeR:
Berman, Larry,
Divine, Robert A.,
Duiker, William J.,
Gaiduk, Ilya V.,
Gardner, Lloyd C.,
Gibbons, William Conrad,
Herring, George C.,
Newman, John M.,
Prados, John,
VanDeMark, Brian,
HerausgeberIn:
Gardner, Lloyd C.,
Gittinger, Ted,
Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©1997
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (238 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • PART I. THE POLITICAL CONTEXT
  • Vietnam. An Episode in the Cold War
  • A Way of Thinking. The Kennedy Administration s Initial Assumptions about Vietnam and Their Consequences
  • From the Colorado to the Mekong
  • Hanoi's Response to American Policy, 1961-1965. Crossed Signals?
  • PART II. THE MILITARY CONTEXT
  • The Zen of Escalation. Containment and Commitment in Southeast Asia
  • Conspiracy of Silence: LBJ, the Joint Chiefs, and Escalation of the War in Vietnam
  • PART III. KENNEDY AND JOHNSON
  • Lyndon Johnson and the Legacy of Vietnam
  • The Kennedy-Johnson Transition. The Case for Policy Reversal
  • NSAM 263 and NSAM 273. Manipulating History
  • PART IV. THE SOVIET DIMENSION
  • Turnabout? The Soviet Policy Dilemma in the Vietnamese Conflict
  • Contributors
  • Index

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