The Vietnam War a military history
"The Vietnam War cast a shadow over the American psyche from the moment it began. In its time it sparked budget deficits, campus protests, and an erosion of US influence around the world. Long after the last helicopter evacuated Saigon, Americans have continued to battle over whether it was eve...
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| Sprache: | English |
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New York
Basic Books
2024
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| Ausgabe: | First edition |
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Parody of High Strategy
- No-Win War
- Eve of Destruction
- Strength only for Defeat
- Ia Drang
- "Nail the coonskins to the wall"
- "The country is behind you-50 percent"
- Jive at Five
- "We'll just go on bleeding them"
- "Victory is around the corner"
- Zenith of Fatuity
- Year of the Monkey
- Tet
- "We can keep on winning the war forever"
- Khe Sanh
- Mini-Tet
- A Better War?
- Hamburger Hill
- Search and Avoid
- "I will not be the first president to lose a war"
- "Cambodia is a man's job"
- Quiet Mutiny
- "The heaviest defeat ever for Nixon & Company"
- "We've made the war too much of a good thing"
- "Defeat is not an option"
- The Fall