Lessons in disaster : McGeorge Bundy and the path to war in Vietnam / Gordon M. Goldstein.
Goldstein, Gordon M.
2008
E183.8.V5 G64 2008 (Mapit)
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Title Lessons in disaster : McGeorge Bundy and the path to war in Vietnam / Gordon M. Goldstein.
Author Goldstein, Gordon M.
Edition 1st ed.
ISBN 9780805079715
0805079718
Imprint 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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-284) and index.
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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.

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