Unwilling to quit : the long unwinding of American involvement in Vietnam / David L. Prentice.
2023
DS557.7 .P74 2023
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Title
Unwilling to quit : the long unwinding of American involvement in Vietnam / David L. Prentice.
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ISBN
9780813197784 (electronic bk.)
0813197783 (electronic bk.)
9780813197777 (electronic bk.)
0813197775 (electronic bk.)
9780813197760
0813197767
0813197783 (electronic bk.)
9780813197777 (electronic bk.)
0813197775 (electronic bk.)
9780813197760
0813197767
Published
Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, [2023]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (288 pages ): illustrations (black and white.
Call Number
DS557.7 .P74 2023
Dewey Decimal Classification
959.704/3373
Summary
"Although US involvement in the Vietnam conflict began long before 1965, Lyndon Johnson's substantial large commitment of combat troops that year marked the official beginning of America's longest twentieth-century war. By 1969, after years of intense fighting and thousands of casualties, an increasing number of Americans wanted the United States out of Vietnam. Richard Nixon looked for a way to pull out while preserving the dignity of the United States at home and abroad, and at the same time, to support the anticommunist Republic of Vietnam. Ultimately, he settled on the strategy of Vietnamization-the gradual replacement of US soldiers with South Vietnamese forces. Drawing on newly declassified documents and international archives, Unwilling to Quit dissects the domestic and foreign contexts of America's withdrawal from the Vietnam War. David L. Prentice demonstrates how congressional and presidential politics were a critical factor in Nixon's decision to abandon his hawkish sensibilities in favor of de-escalation. Prentice reframes Nixon's choices, emphasizes Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird's outsized yet subtle role in the decision-making process, and considers how South Vietnam's Nguyen Van Thieu and North Vietnam's Le Duan decisively shaped the American exit. Prentice brings Vietnamese voices into the discussion and underscores the unprecedented influence of American civilians on US foreign policy during the Vietnamization era"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Studies in Conflict, Diplomacy, and Peace Series.
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Table of Contents
The beginning of an ending
Good times, bad times: what Nixon inherited
Only the strong survive: Nixon and Kissinger's escalation of the war
My way: Laird and Vietnamization
Going up the country: Vietnamization, Duck Hook, and the Nixon Doctrine in global context
Come together: the decision against Duck Hook and for Vietnamization
Give me just a little more time: the new optimists
It's too late: Vietnamization's frailties
Alone again, naturally: the collapse of the Second Republic.
Good times, bad times: what Nixon inherited
Only the strong survive: Nixon and Kissinger's escalation of the war
My way: Laird and Vietnamization
Going up the country: Vietnamization, Duck Hook, and the Nixon Doctrine in global context
Come together: the decision against Duck Hook and for Vietnamization
Give me just a little more time: the new optimists
It's too late: Vietnamization's frailties
Alone again, naturally: the collapse of the Second Republic.