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Formula for failure in Vietnam : the folly of limited warfare
- Title
- Formula for failure in Vietnam : the folly of limited warfare / William Hamilton ; foreword by Lt. Gen. Thomas G. McInerney, USAF (Ret.).
- Author
- Hamilton, William (William Alexander), 1935-
- Publication
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2020]
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 20-2509 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- McInerney, Thomas
- Description
- ix, 163 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- "Drawing on a range of sources, including original interviews with the commanders ordered to fight a land war in Southeast Asia, a former U.S. Army infantry captain recounts his company's experiences carrying out those orders in Vietnam and Cambodia. The crucial flaws of the Johnson Administration's strategy of attrition in are analyzed - the failure to seal off the theater of battle from Chinese and Soviet resupply, and allowing North Vietnamese ground forces to maintain sanctuaries in Laos, Cambodia and even North Vietnam itself"--
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Setting the Stage for Failure -- An Army in Search of a Mission -- Beware of the Pale Civilian -- A War in Search of Strategy -- Riverine Warfare-On the Potomac -- Troops, Time, Tet, and Truth -- Conduct Unbecoming -- One War Too Far.
- Call Number
- JFD 20-2509
- ISBN
- 9781476679945
- 1476679940
- 9781476638188 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2019047352
- 40029683015
- OCLC
- 1124772465
- Author
- Hamilton, William (William Alexander), 1935- author.
- Title
- Formula for failure in Vietnam : the folly of limited warfare / William Hamilton ; foreword by Lt. Gen. Thomas G. McInerney, USAF (Ret.).
- Publisher
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2020]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1961-1975
- Added Author
- McInerney, Thomas, writer of foreword.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40029683015
- Research Call Number
- JFD 20-2509