Vietnam the Necessary War
A Reinterpretation of America's Most Disastrous Military Conflict
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Word Count
84,000 words, Guess
Page Count
336 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL7721793M
- ISBN-139780684842547
- ISBN-100684842548
- OCLC Control Number41411932
- OCLC Control Numbervietnamnecessary00lind
and 5 more
- Library of Congress Control Number99028449
- LibraryThing101221
- Goodreads1053456
- AmazonB000CQP4LC
- Better World BooksBWB22285461
Classifications
- LCCDS558 .L565 1999
Description
"In this reinterpretation of America's most disastrous and controversial war, Michael Lind demolishes the state orthodoxies of the left and the right and puts the Vietnam War in its proper context - as part of the global conflict between the Soviet Union and the United States. The Cold War, he argues, was actually the third world war of the twentieth century, and the proxy wars in Korea, Vietnam, and Afghanistan were its major campaigns."--BOOK JACKET. "Lind offers a provocative reassessment of why the United States failed in Vietnam despite the high stakes. The ultimate responsibility for defeat lies not with the civilian policy elite nor with the press but with the military establishment, which failed to adapt to the demands of what before 1968 had been largely a guerrilla war."--BOOK JACKET.
First Sentence
In the winter of 1950, Moscow was as cold as hell.
Excerpt
In the winter of 1950, Moscow was as cold as hell.
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