Lessons in disaster : McGeorge Bundy and the path to war in Vietnam / Gordon M. Goldstein.
2008
E183.8.V5 G64 2008 (Mapit)
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Lessons in disaster : McGeorge Bundy and the path to war in Vietnam / Gordon M. Goldstein.
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Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
9780805079715
0805079718
0805079718
Publication Details
New York : Times Books/Henry Holt and Co., 2008.
Language
English
Description
xiii, 300 p. ; 25 cm.
Call Number
E183.8.V5 G64 2008
Dewey Decimal Classification
327.730597
Summary
Drawing on prodigious research as well as the interviews and analysis he has conducted with former National Security Adviser McGeorge Bundy, Goldstein offers this revelatory look at the decisions that led to the U.S. involvement in Vietnam.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-284) and index.
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Table of Contents
Legend of the establishment
Counselors advise but presidents decide
Never trust the bureaucracy to get it right
Politics is the enemy of strategy
Conviction without rigor is a strategy for disaster
Never deploy military means in pursuit of indeterminate ends
Intervention is a presidential choice, not an inevitability.
Counselors advise but presidents decide
Never trust the bureaucracy to get it right
Politics is the enemy of strategy
Conviction without rigor is a strategy for disaster
Never deploy military means in pursuit of indeterminate ends
Intervention is a presidential choice, not an inevitability.