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Author | : William Rosenau |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2007-05-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1134200668 |
Reveals the role internal security assistance played in US policies for thwarting Marxism-Leninism in Asia, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East Identifies the underlying factors that contributed to the failure of American security policy in South Vietnam prior to the Vietnam war Will appeal to students of Cold War history, US foreign policy, S.E. Asian Politics, as well as intelligence and security studies generally
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations |
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Total Pages | : 124 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Military assistance, American |
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Author | : Charles Y. Shultz |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 1963 |
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Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 2248 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Economic assistance, American |
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Author | : Amos A. Jordan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 1962 |
Genre | : Economic assistance, American |
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Author | : Andrew J. Gawthorpe |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2018-12-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1501712098 |
For years, the so-called better-war school of thought has argued that the United States built a legitimate and viable non-Communist state in South Vietnam in the latter years of the Vietnam War and that it was only the military abandonment of this state that brought down the Republic of Vietnam. But Andrew J. Gawthorpe, through a detailed and incisive analysis, shows that, in fact, the United States failed in its efforts at nation building and had not established a durable state in South Vietnam. Drawing on newly opened archival collections and previously unexamined oral histories with dozens of U.S. military officers and government officials, To Build as Well as Destroy demonstrates that the United States never came close to achieving victory in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Gawthorpe tells a story of policy aspirations and practical failures that stretches from Washington, D.C., to the Vietnamese villages in which the United States implemented its nationbuilding strategy through the Office of Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development Support known as CORDS. Structural factors that could not have been overcome by the further application of military power thwarted U.S. efforts to build a viable set of non-Communist political, economic, and social institutions in South Vietnam. To Build as Well as Destroy provides the most comprehensive account yet of the largest and best-resourced nation-building program in U.S. history. Gawthorpe's analysis helps contemporary policy makers, diplomats, and military officers understand the reasons for this failure. At a moment in time when American strategists are grappling with military and political challenges in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria, revisiting the historical lessons of Vietnam is a worthy endeavor.
Author | : Ronald H. Spector |
Publisher | : U.S. Government Printing Office |
Total Pages | : 422 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : History |
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Advice and Support describes the activities of the U.S. Army in Vietnam during World War II, military advice and assistance to the French government during the immediate postwar years, and the advisory program that developed after the Geneva Agreements of 1954. Its scope ranges from high-level policy decisions to low-echelon advisory operations in the field, presented against a background of relevant military and political developments. Useful not only as a study of military assistance but as a view of the Army as an agent of national policy, Ronald Spector2s interesting book is a fitting introduction to the overall study of the conflict in Vietnam.
Author | : Adam E Casey |
Publisher | : Basic Books |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2024-04-02 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1541604024 |
How support from foreign superpowers propped up—and pulled down—authoritarian regimes during the Cold War, offering lessons for today’s great power competition Throughout the Cold War, the United States and Soviet Union competed to prop up friendly dictatorships abroad. Today, it is commonly assumed that this military aid enabled the survival of allied autocrats, from Taiwan’s Chiang Kai-shek to Ethiopia’s Mengistu Haile Mariam. In Up in Arms, political scientist Adam E. Casey rebuts the received wisdom: aid to autocracies often backfired during the Cold War. Casey draws on extensive original research to show that, despite billions poured into friendly regimes, US-backed dictators lasted in power no longer than those without outside help. In fact, American aid often unintentionally destabilized autocratic regimes. The United States encouraged foreign regimes to establish strong, independent armies like its own, but those armies often went on to lead coups themselves. By contrast, the Soviets promoted the subordination of the army to the ruling regime, neutralizing the threat of military takeover. Ultimately, Casey concludes, it is subservient militaries—not outside aid—that help autocrats maintain power. In an era of renewed great power competition, Up in Arms offers invaluable insights into the unforeseen consequences of overseas meddling, revealing how military aid can help pull down dictators as often as it props them up.
Author | : Capt. Robert H. Whitlow |
Publisher | : Pickle Partners Publishing |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2016-08-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 178720085X |
This is the first of a series of chronological histories prepared by the Marine Corps History and Museums Division to cover the entire span of Marine Corps involvement in the Vietnam conflict. This particular volume covers a relatively obscure chapter in U.S. Marine Corps history—the activities of Marines in Vietnam between 1954 and 1964. The narrative traces the evolution of those activities from a one-man advisory operation at the conclusion of the French-Indochina War in 1954 to the advisory and combat support activities of some 700 Marines at the end of 1964. As the introductory volume for the series this account has an important secondary objective: to establish a geographical, political, and military foundation upon which the subsequent histories can be developed.
Author | : Edward Miller |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 2013-04-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674075323 |
Diem’s alliance with Washington has long been seen as a Cold War relationship gone bad, undone by either American arrogance or Diem’s stubbornness. Edward Miller argues that this misalliance was more than just a joint effort to contain communism. It was also a means for each side to shrewdly pursue its plans for nation building in South Vietnam.