Irony of Vietnam The System Worked

Name: Irony of Vietnam The System Worked
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ISBN: 9780815730712

ISBN-10: 0815730713

ISBN-13: 9780815730712

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Authors: Leslie Gelb, Richard Betts

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Few analysts of U.S. involvement in Vietnam would agree with the provocative conclusion of this book. The thesis of most postmortems is that the United States lost the war because of the failure of its foreign policy decisionmaking system. According to Gelb and Betts, however, the foreign policy failed, but the decisionmaking system worked. They attribute this paradox to the efficiency of the system in sustaining an increasingly heavy commitment based on the shared conviction of six administrations that the United States must prevent the loss of Vietnam to communism. However questionable the conviction, and thus the commitment, may have been, the authors stress that the latter "was made and…

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List price: $28.00
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Publication date: 3/1/1979
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 1.00" wide x 1.00" long x 1.07" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

RICHARD BETTS ï¿½has been featured in the New York Times , Wine Spectator, Food & Wine, Outside, GQ, and Details and speaks frequently on wine throughout the country. He is the founder of two wine companies, Betts & Scholl and Scarpetta, that have won top praise from leading wine publications.ï¿½He is also theï¿½founder and president of Sombra Mezcal and Tequila Astral, and his newest wine ventures include Saint Glinglin Bordeaux, My Essential Red, and My Essential Rosï¿½.



Foreword


Abbreviations


Introduction



Decisions: Getting into Vietnam



Patterns, Dilemmas, and Explanations



Recurrent Patterns and Dilemmas from Roosevelt to Eisenhower



Picking Up the Torch: the Kennedy Administration



Intervention in Force: the Johnson Administration, I



Coming Home to Roost: the Johnson Administration, II



Goals: the Imperative Not to Lose



National Security Goals and Stakes



Domestic Political Stakes



the Bureaucracy and the Inner Circle



Means: the Minimum Necessary and the Maximum Feasible



Constraints



Pressures and the President



Perceptions: Realism, Hope, and Compromise



Optimism, Pessimism, and Credibility



the Strategy of Perseverance



Conclusions



the Lessons of Vietnam


Documentary Appendix


Bibliographical Note


Index