Why Vietnam matters : an eyewitness account of lessons not learned / Rufus Phillips.
2008
DS558 .P49 2008eb
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Title
Why Vietnam matters : an eyewitness account of lessons not learned / Rufus Phillips.
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ISBN
9781612515625 (electronic bk.)
1612515622 (electronic bk.)
1612515622 (electronic bk.)
Imprint
Annapolis, Md. : Naval Institute Press, 2008.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (449 pages)
Call Number
DS558 .P49 2008eb
System Control No.
(OCoLC)863822557
Summary
In The Best and the Brightest, David Halberstam described Rufus Phillips as a man one could trust telling President Kennedy during the Vietnam War about the failures of the Strategic Hamlet Program, 'in itself a remarkable moment in the American bureaucracy, a moment of intellectual honesty.' With that same honesty, Phillips gives an extraordinary inside history of the most critical years of American involvement in Vietnam, from 1954 to 1968, and explains why it still matters.
Formatted Contents Note
Saigon-panier de crabes
Making a start
A nation begins to rise
A bucket of eels and Operation Giai Phong
The battle for Saigon
Civic action
South Vietnam stabilizes-Laos up for grabs
Return to Vietnam
Starting rural affairs
An uneven path
The Buddhist crisis
Ambassador Lodge intervenes
Meeting President Kennedy
The overthrow of Diem
The new regime
Events go wrong
General Taylor replaces Lodge
The Lansdale mission
Triumph of the bureaucrats
Refusing to give up
Change comes late
Humphrey loses, Nixon takes over
Tragic aftermath-and why
Beyond Vietnam: Iraq, Afghanistan, and the future.
Making a start
A nation begins to rise
A bucket of eels and Operation Giai Phong
The battle for Saigon
Civic action
South Vietnam stabilizes-Laos up for grabs
Return to Vietnam
Starting rural affairs
An uneven path
The Buddhist crisis
Ambassador Lodge intervenes
Meeting President Kennedy
The overthrow of Diem
The new regime
Events go wrong
General Taylor replaces Lodge
The Lansdale mission
Triumph of the bureaucrats
Refusing to give up
Change comes late
Humphrey loses, Nixon takes over
Tragic aftermath-and why
Beyond Vietnam: Iraq, Afghanistan, and the future.
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