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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Kort, Michael (1944-....)
Titre(s) : The Vietnam War reexamined [Texte imprimé] / Michael G. Kort, Boston University
Publication : Cambridge (GB) : Cambridge University Press, 2018
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XV-250 p.) : cartes ; 24 cm
Collection : Cambridge essential histories
Lien à la collection : Cambridge essential histories
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. [224]-228. Notes bibliogr. Index
"Going beyond the dominant orthodox narrative to incorporate insight from revisionist
scholarship on the Vietnam War, Michael G. Kort presents the case that the United
States should have been able to win the war, and at a much lower cost than it suffered
in defeat. Presenting a study that is both historiographic and a narrative history,
Kort analyzes important factors such as the strong nationalist credentials and leadership
qualities of South Vietnam's Ngo Dinh Diem; the flawed military strategy of 'graduated
response' developed by Robert McNamara; and the real reasons South Vietnam collapsed
in the face of a massive North Vietnamese invasion in 1975. Kort shows how the US
commitment to defend South Vietnam was not a strategic error but a policy consistent
with US security interests during the Cold War, and that there were potentially viable
strategic approaches to the war that might have saved South Vietnam."
Sujet(s) : Guerre du Vietnam (1961-1975)
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781107046405 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb455313012
Notice n° :
FRBNF45531301
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Introduction: understanding the Vietnam War ; The Vietnam War in history ; Vietnam
101: origins to 1946 ; Vietnamese communism, 1920-1946 ; America comes to Vietnam,
1954-1963 ; The Americanization of the Vietnam War, 1963-1968 ; The Vietnamization
of the war and the "lost victory" ; The Paris Peace Accords to Black April ; Summary
and epilogue.
