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The irony of Vietnam : the system worked
- Title
- The irony of Vietnam : the system worked / Leslie H. Gelb with Richard K. Betts.
- Author
- Gelb, Leslie H.
- Publication
- Washington : Brookings Institution, ©1979.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Betts, Richard K., 1947-
- Description
- xi, 387 pages; 24 cm
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Vietnamkonflikt.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Awards (note)
- American Political Science Association Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award, 1980.
- Contents
- Part 1. 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 2. Goals : the imperative not to lose. National security goals and stakes ; Domestic political stakes ; The bureaucracy and the inner circle -- Part 3. Means : the minimum necessary and the maximum feasible. Constraints ; Pressures and the president -- Part 4. Perceptions : realism, hope, and compromise. Optimism, pessimism, and credibility ; The strategy of perseverance -- Part 5. Conclusions. The lessons of Vietnam -- Documentary appendix.
- Call Number
- ICM (Vietnam) 79-1768
- ISBN
- 0815730721
- 9780815730729
- 0815730713
- 9780815730712
- LCCN
- 78026563
- OCLC
- 4493020
- Author
- Gelb, Leslie H.
- Title
- The irony of Vietnam : the system worked / Leslie H. Gelb with Richard K. Betts.
- Imprint
- Washington : Brookings Institution, ©1979.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Awards
- American Political Science Association Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award, 1980.
- Connect to:
- Chronological Term
- 1961-1975
- Indexed Term
- United States Foreign relations VietnamVietnam Foreign relations United StatesVietnam War, 1961-1975
- Added Author
- Betts, Richard K., 1947-
- Other Form:
- Online version: Gelb, Leslie H. Irony of Vietnam. Washington : Brookings Institution, ©1979 (OCoLC)643967425
- Research Call Number
- ICM (Vietnam) 79-1768