Michael Lind

Vietnam (eBook, ePUB)

The Necessary War

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

One of America's leading intellectuals presents a startling thesis sure to provoke controversy: that the Vietnam War was the right war at the right time, with the wrong military strategy. The Vietnam War still divides Americans. Some claim that Indochina was of no strategic value. Others argue that timid civilian leaders denied the U.S military permission to win. In this paradigm-shifting book, Michael Lind explodes both of these myths and puts the Vietnam War back in the context of Cold War power politics and American domestic politics. The Cold War, Lind argues, was the third world war, and the proxy wars in Korea, Indochina, and Afghanistan were among its major campaigns. However, the cost of the U.S military's misguided tactics in Vietnam undermined American public support for the Cold War on all fronts. The result was the forfeiture of Indochina, a resurgence of American isolationism, and a worldwide wave of Soviet bloc expansion checked only by the Second Cold War of the 1980's. Challenging the stale orthodoxies of the antiwar left and prowar right, VIETNAM: THE NECESSARY WAR offers a major reinterpretation of America's most disastrous foreign war.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781439135266
• Artikelnr.: 39168156

Autorenporträt

Michael Lind is a senior fellow at the New America Foundation and the Washington editor of Harper's Magazine. He is also the author of five previous books, including The Next American Nation and Up from Conservatism. He has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, Foreign Affairs, The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, The New Republic, and other publications. He holds a master's degree in international relations from Yale University and a law degree from the University of Texas. He lives in Washington, D.C.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1
The Indochina Theater
The Cold War in Southeast Asia, 1946-89
Chapter 2
Why Indochina Mattered
American Credibility and the Cold War
Chapter 3
Inflexible Response
The U.S. Military and the Vietnam War
Chapter 4
The Fall of Washington
The Domestic Politics of the Vietnam War
Chapter 5
Disinformation
Vietnam and the Folklore of the Antiwar Movement
Chapter 6
Credibility Gap
The Myth of the Presidential War
Chapter 7
Was the Vietnam War Unjust?
Chapter 8
The Genuine Lessons of the Vietnam War
Notes
Index