The Myth of Inevitable US Defeat in Vietnam

The Myth of Inevitable US Defeat in Vietnam
Author: C. Dale Walton
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2002
Genre: United States
ISBN: 0714651877

"Dale Walton's book offers a unique and comprehensive analysis that considers US strategic decisionmaking at a number of levels, and shows how US errors created the military and political conditions that made North Vietnamese victory possible. If the United States' political-military effort had not negated its main advantages - indeed, even if it had avoided only a small number of its many strategic errors - the outcome of the Indochina conflict would most likely have been very different, the author argues."--BOOK JACKET.

The Myth of Inevitable US Defeat in Vietnam

The Myth of Inevitable US Defeat in Vietnam
Author: Dale Walton
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2013-01-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 1136339876

This book offers a dispassionate strategic examination of the Vietnam conflict that challenges the conventional wisdom that South Vietnam could not survive as an independent non-communist entity over the long term regardless of how the United States conducted its military- political effort in Indochina.

A Handbook of Military Strategy and Tactics

A Handbook of Military Strategy and Tactics
Author: Michiko Phifer
Publisher: Vij Books India Pvt Ltd
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2012-07-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 9382573283

The book discusses the importance of Military Strategy and Tactics during conflicts with some proven examples.

Triumph Regained

Triumph Regained
Author: Mark Moyar
Publisher: Encounter Books
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2023-01-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 1641772980

Triumph Regained: The Vietnam War, 1965–1968 is the long-awaited sequel to the immensely influential Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954–1965. Like its predecessor, this book overturns the conventional wisdom using a treasure trove of new sources, many of them from the North Vietnamese side. Rejecting the standard depiction of U.S. military intervention as a hopeless folly, it shows America’s war to have been a strategic necessity that could have ended victoriously had President Lyndon Johnson heeded the advice of his generals. In light of Johnson’s refusal to use American ground forces beyond South Vietnam, General William Westmoreland employed the best military strategy available. Once the White House loosened the restraints on Operation Rolling Thunder, American bombing inflicted far greater damage on the North Vietnamese supply system than has been previously understood, and it nearly compelled North Vietnam to capitulate. The book demonstrates that American military operations enabled the South Vietnamese government to recover from the massive instability that followed the assassination of President Ngo Dinh Diem. American culture sustained public support for the war through the end of 1968, giving South Vietnam realistic hopes for long-term survival. America’s defense of South Vietnam averted the imminent fall of key Asian nations to Communism and sowed strife inside the Communist camp, to the long-term detriment of America’s great-power rivals, China and the Soviet Union.

The Vietnam War Re-Examined

The Vietnam War Re-Examined
Author: Michael Kort
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 267
Release: 2018
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107046408

An overview of the revisionist case on the Vietnam War, showing how it could have been won by the US at a lower cost than was suffered in defeat.

Winning at War

Winning at War
Author: Christian P Potholm
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2023-06-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 1442201320

What are the independent variables that determine success in war? Drawing on 40 years of studying and teaching war, political scientist Christian P. Potholm presents a 'template of Mars,' seven variables that have served as predictors of military success over time and across cultures. In Winning at War, Potholm explains these variables_technology, sustained ruthlessness, discipline, receptivity to innovation, protection of military capital from civilians and rulers, will, and the belief that there will always be another war_and provides case studies of their implementation, from ancient battles to today.

Vietnam

Vietnam
Author: Gary R. Hess
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2015-03-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 1118949005

Now available in a completely revised and updated second edition,Vietnam: Explaining America’s Lost War is anaward-winning historiography of one of the 20thcentury’s seminal conflicts. Looks at many facets of Vietnam War, examining centralarguments of scholars, journalists, and participants and providingevidence on both sides of controversies around this event Addresses key debates about the Vietnam War, asking whether thewar was necessary for US security; whether President Kennedy wouldhave avoided the war had he lived beyond November 1963; whethernegotiation would have been a feasible alternative to war; andmore Assesses the lessons learned from this war, and how theselessons have affected American national security policy since Written by a well-respected scholar in the field in anaccessible style for students and scholars

The Powell Doctrine and US Foreign Policy

The Powell Doctrine and US Foreign Policy
Author: Luke Middup
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2016-03-03
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1317019601

The Vietnam War is one of the longest and most controversial in US history. This book seeks to explore what lessons the US military took from that conflict as to how and when it was appropriate for the United States to use the enormous military force at its disposal and how these lessons have come to influence and shape US foreign policy in subsequent decades. In particular this book will focus on the evolution of the so called ’Powell Doctrine’ and the intellectual climate that lead to it. The book will do this by examining a series of case studies from the mid-1970s to the present war in Afghanistan.

Victory in War

Victory in War
Author: William C. Martel
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 593
Release: 2011-06-13
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 113949970X

War demands that scholars and policy makers use victory in precise and coherent terms to communicate what the state seeks to achieve in war. The failure historically to define victory in consistent terms has contributed to confused debates when societies consider whether to wage war. This volume explores the development of a theoretical narrative or language of victory to help scholars and policy makers define carefully and precisely what they mean by victory in war in order to achieve a deeper understanding of victory as the foundation of strategy in the modern world.

Politically Incorrect Guide to the Vietnam War

Politically Incorrect Guide to the Vietnam War
Author: Phillip Jennings
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2010-02-02
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1596981423

The Vietnam War was a tragic and dismal failure—at least that is what the mainstream media and history books would have you believe. Yet, Phillip Jennings sets the record straight in The Politically Incorrect Guide™ to the Vietnam War. In this latest “P.I.G.”, Jennings shatters culturally-accepted myths and busts politically incorrect lies that liberal pundits and leftist professors have been telling you for years. The Vietnam War was the most important—and successful—campaign to defeat Communism. Without the sacrifices made and the courage displayed by our military, the world might be a different place. The Politically Incorrect Guide™ to the Vietnam War reveals the truth about the battles, players, and policies of one of the most controversial wars in U.S. history.