The irony of Vietnam [electronic resource] : the system worked / Leslie H. Gelb, with Richard K. Betts ; foreword by Fareed Zakaria.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gelb, Leslie H. (Author)
Other Authors: Betts, Richard K., 1947- (joint author.)
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, [2016]
Edition:Second edition.
Subjects:
Vietnam War, 1961-1975.
United States > Foreign relations > Vietnam.
Vietnam > Foreign relations > United States.
Online Access:
ProQuest Ebook Central - Academic Complete: 1979 (Ebook Central @ Proquest)
Variant Title:
The Irony of Vietnam : The System Worked
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • Part I. Decisions: getting into Vietnam
  • Patterns, dilemmas, and explanations
  • Recurrent patterns and dilemmas from Roosevelt to Eisenhower
  • Picking up the torch: the Kennedy Administration
  • Intervention in force: the Johnson Administration, I
  • Coming home to roost: the Johnson Administration, II
  • Part II. The imperative not to lose
  • National security goals and stakes
  • Domestic political stakes
  • The bureaucracy and the inner circle
  • Part III. Means: the minimum necessary and the maximum feasible
  • Constraints
  • Pressures and the president
  • Part IV. Perceptions: realism, hope, and compromise
  • Optimism, pessimism, and credibility
  • The strategy of perseverance
  • Part V. Conclusions
  • The lessons of Vietnam.