"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...

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Main Author:	Lind, Michael (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York Free Press 1999
Subjects:	Guerre du Viet-Nam (1961-1975) - États-Unis Guerre du Viêt-nam, 1961-1975 - États-Unis Vietnam-oorlog Außenpolitik Vietnamkrieg Vietnam War, 1961-1975 > United States États-Unis - Relations extérieures - 1963-1969 États-Unis - Relations extérieures - 1969-1974 USA United States > Foreign relations > 1963-1969 United States > Foreign relations > 1969-1974
Summary:	"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." "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.
Physical Description:	XIX, 314 S.
ISBN:	0684842548