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Irony of Vietnam: The System Worked

Irony of Vietnam: The System Worked

Zakaria, Fareed
Gelb, Leslie H.
Betts, Richard K.

Paperback

Series: Brookings Classic

General Political ScienceInternational RelationsVietnam War

ISBN10: 0815726783
ISBN13: 9780815726784
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Published: May 31 2016
Pages: 436
Weight: 1.20
Height: 1.30 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

If a historian were allowed but one book on the American involvement in Vietnam, this would be it. -- Foreign Affairs When first published in 1979, four years after the end of one of the most divisive conflicts in the United States, The Irony of Vietnam raised eyebrows. Most students of the war argued that the United States had stumbled into a quagmire in Vietnam through hubris and miscalculation, as the New York Times's Fox Butterfield put it. But the perspective of time and the opening of documentary sources, including the Pentagon Papers, had allowed Gelb and Betts to probe deep into the decisionmaking leading to escalation of military action in Vietnam. The failure of Vietnam could be laid at the door of American foreign policy, they said, but the decisions that led to the failure were made by presidents aware of the risks, clear about their aims, knowledgeable about the weaknesses of their allies, and under no illusion about the outcome.

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