Vietnam The System Worked

Author : Leslie H. Gelb,Richard K. Betts
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780815726807

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The Irony of Vietnam by Leslie H. Gelb,Richard K. Betts Pdf

"If a historian were allowed but one book on the American involvement in Vietnam, this would be it." — Foreign Affairs When first published in 1979, four years after the end of one of the most divisive conflicts in the United States, The Irony of Vietnam raised eyebrows. Most students of the war argued that the United States had "stumbled into a quagmire in Vietnam through hubris and miscalculation," as the New York Times's Fox Butterfield put it. But the perspective of time and the opening of documentary sources, including the Pentagon Papers, had allowed Gelb and Betts to probe deep into the decisionmaking leading to escalation of military action in Vietnam. The failure of Vietnam could be laid at the door of American foreign policy, they said, but the decisions that led to the failure were made by presidents aware of the risks, clear about their aims, knowledgeable about the weaknesses of their allies, and under no illusion about the outcome. The book offers a picture of a steely resolve in government circles that, while useful in creating consensus, did not allow for alternative perspectives. In the years since its publication, The Irony of Vietnam has come to be considered the seminal work on the Vietnam War.

Author : Leslie H. Gelb
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : United States
ISBN : IND:39000007819522

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Vietnam: the System Worked by Leslie H. Gelb Pdf

Author : Neil L. Jamieson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520916586

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Understanding Vietnam by Neil L. Jamieson Pdf

The American experience in Vietnam divided us as a nation and eroded our confidence in both the morality and the effectiveness of our foreign policy. Yet our understanding of this tragic episode remains superficial because, then and now, we have never grasped the passionate commitment with which the Vietnamese clung to and fought over their own competing visions of what Vietnam was and what it might become. To understand the war, we must understand the Vietnamese, their culture, and their ways of looking at the world. Neil L. Jamieson, after many years of living and working in Vietnam, has written the book that provides this understanding. Jamieson paints a portrait of twentieth-century Vietnam. Against the background of traditional Vietnamese culture, he takes us through the saga of modern Vietnamese history and Western involvement in the country, from the coming of the French in 1858 through the Vietnam War and its aftermath. Throughout his analysis, he allows the Vietnamese—both our friends and foes, and those who wished to be neither—to speak for themselves through poetry, fiction, essays, newspaper editorials and reports of interviews and personal experiences. By putting our old and partial perceptions into this new and broader context, Jamieson provides positive insights that may perhaps ease the lingering pain and doubt resulting from our involvement in Vietnam. As the United States and Vietnam appear poised to embark on a new phase in their relationship, Jamieson's book is particularly timely.

Author : Michael S. Foley
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0807854360

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Confronting the War Machine by Michael S. Foley Pdf

Focusing on the draft resistance movement in Boston in 1967-68, this study argues that these acts of mass civil disobedience turned the tide in the antiwar movement by drawing the Johnson administration into a confrontation with activists who were largely young, middle-class, liberal, and from suburban backgrounds--the core of Johnson's constituency.

Author : Meredith H. Lair
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807834817

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Armed with Abundance by Meredith H. Lair Pdf

Popular representations of the Vietnam War tend to emphasize violence, deprivation, and trauma. By contrast, in Armed with Abundance, Meredith Lair focuses on the noncombat experiences of U.S. soldiers in Vietnam, redrawing the landscape of the war

Author : Mitch Epstein
Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 0393040275

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Vietnam by Mitch Epstein Pdf

A photographer's unnerving and poetic odyssey through modern-day Vietnam. Mitch Epstein's evocative pictures reveal a complicated Vietnam that few Americans have ever seen. This is not a document about the war, nor is it the pastoral idyll other photographers have portrayed. Vietnam, through Epstein's eyes, is a disturbing and sublime palimpsest. Vietnam: A Book of Changes interprets a culture and landscape largely cut off from the West for the last thirty years, and now open to a market economy and a new relationship to America. The photographs are suffused with the rawness of Vietnamese life lived on the economic and political edge. Under the layer of friendship lies the tension of politics; under beauty lies violence; under the stark faces of remote villagers is the entrepreneurial momentum drawing them to the city; and under the remnants of war is an artistic bohemia grappling with new freedoms and continued censorship. Epstein's groundbreaking art photography addresses our senses and intellect equally. These pictures bring us into the heart of Vietnam.

Author : Gerard Sasges
Publisher : NUS Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789971696986

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It's a Living by Gerard Sasges Pdf

Through 67 interviews and 59 colour photographs, It's a Living reveals the energy and struggle of the world of work in Vietnam today. A goldfish peddler installing aquariums, a business school graduate selling shoes on the sidewalk, a college student running an extensive multi-level sales network, and a girl doing promotions but intent on moving into management, are just a few of the people profiled. Based on frank and freewheeling interviews conducted by students, the book engages a broad range of Vietnamese, both living in Vietnam and abroad, on their feelings about work, life and getting ahead. By providing a ground-level view of the texture of daily working life in the midst of rapid and unsettling change, the book reveals Vietnam today as a place where ordinary people are leveraging whatever assets they have, not just to survive, but to make a better life for themselves, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Author : Martin Gainsborough
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781848139077

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Vietnam by Martin Gainsborough Pdf

Vietnam: Rethinking the State offers an exciting and up-to-date look at the politics of this fascinating country as it seeks to make the transition from war-torn economic backwater to a dynamic and modern society. The book argues for a move away from the commonly associated idea of 'reform', arguing for a deeper understanding of the concept and questioning the idea of state-retreat. The result is a path-breaking book which gets beneath the surface of Vietnam's politics in a way which few outsiders otherwise could.

Author : Bernard Gary Burkett,Glenna Whitley
Publisher : Summit Publishing Group
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Homeless veterans
ISBN : 1565302842

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Stolen Valor by Bernard Gary Burkett,Glenna Whitley Pdf

Military documents reveal decades of deceit about the Vietnam War and myths perpetuated by the mainstream media.

Author : Gareth Porter
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2006-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520250048

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Perils of Dominance by Gareth Porter Pdf

In a new interpretation of how and why the United States went to war in Vietnam, the author challenges conventional wisdom about the origins of the war, arguing that U.S. policy decisions were shaped by an imbalance of military power favoring the U.S. over the Soviet Union and China, a factor that is also relevant to the current U.S. intervention in Iraq.

Author : Gordon L. Rottman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780960425

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Tunnel Rat in Vietnam by Gordon L. Rottman Pdf

In 1965, soon after the first US combat troops had arrived in Vietnam, it was realized that in some areas the Viet Cong had developed vast tunnel complexes in which to hide from the enemy. It was long known that such complexes existed, but it was not realized just how extensive they were in some areas, how important they were to the Viet Cong, and how difficult it was to detect and neutralize them. At first infantrymen volunteered to enter the tunnels armed with only pistols and flashlights – the 'tunnel runners' were born, known to the Australians as 'tunnel ferrets'. Starting as an ad hoc force of infantrymen, combat engineers and chemical troops, it was not long before units were 'formalized' as 'tunnel exploration personnel' and 4–6-man 'tunnel exploitation and denial teams' were created. They came to be known simply as 'tunnel rats' with the unofficial motto Non Gratum Anus Rodentum – 'Not Worth a Rat's Ass'. This title will be based on the personal accounts of those who served in this unique role and will describe the specialist training and equipment, not to mention the tactics and combat experiences, of those who fought an underground war against the Viet Cong in Vietnam.

Author : Christian G. Appy
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2000-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807860113

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Working-Class War by Christian G. Appy Pdf

No one can understand the complete tragedy of the American experience in Vietnam without reading this book. Nothing so underscores the ambivalence and confusion of the American commitment as does the composition of our fighting forces. The rich and the powerful may have supported the war initially, but they contributed little of themselves. That responsibility fell to the poor and the working class of America.--Senator George McGovern "Reminds us of the disturbing truth that some 80 percent of the 2.5 million enlisted men who served in Vietnam--out of 27 million men who reached draft age during the war--came from working-class and impoverished backgrounds. . . . Deals especially well with the apparent paradox that the working-class soldiers' families back home mainly opposed the antiwar movement, and for that matter so with few exceptions did the soldiers themselves.--New York Times Book Review "[Appy's] treatment of the subject makes it clear to his readers--almost as clear as it became for the soldiers in Vietnam--that class remains the tragic dividing wall between Americans.--Boston Globe

Author : William M. Hammond
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Armed Forces and mass media
ISBN : 0160016738

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Public Affairs by William M. Hammond Pdf

United States Army in Vietnam. CMH Pub. 91-13. Draws upon previously unavailable Army and Defense Department records to interpret the part the press played during the Vietnam War. Discusses the roles of the following in the creation of information policy: Military Assistance Command's Office of Information in Saigon; White House; State Department; Defense Department; and the United States Embassy in Saigon.

Author : Nick Turse
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780805095470

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Kill Anything That Moves by Nick Turse Pdf

Based on classified documents and first-person interviews, a startling history of the American war on Vietnamese civilians The American Empire Project Winner of the Ridenhour Prize for Reportorial Distinction Americans have long been taught that events such as the notorious My Lai massacre were isolated incidents in the Vietnam War, carried out by just a few "bad apples." But as award-winning journalist and historian Nick Turse demonstrates in this groundbreaking investigation, violence against Vietnamese noncombatants was not at all exceptional during the conflict. Rather, it was pervasive and systematic, the predictable consequence of official orders to "kill anything that moves." Drawing on more than a decade of research into secret Pentagon archives and extensive interviews with American veterans and Vietnamese survivors, Turse reveals for the first time the workings of a military machine that resulted in millions of innocent civilians killed and wounded-what one soldier called "a My Lai a month." Devastating and definitive, Kill Anything That Moves finally brings us face-to-face with the truth of a war that haunts America to this day.

Author : John Kleinen
Publisher : Institut de recherche sur l’Asie du Sud-Est contemporaine
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9782355960161

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Vietnam: One-Party State and the Mimicry of the Civil Society by John Kleinen Pdf

Are the issues of civil society, “good governance”, and the role of NGOs in Vietnam part of a discursive discourse that is linked to a growing development industry in which development studies and economics dominate? Kleinen questions these issues based upon longitudinal research in Vietnam since the early 1990s. In this study, an effort is made to explain the concrete interactions between authorities of the Vietnamese one-party state and its citizens by introducing an attitude of participants to conceal their real intentions with the intent to disguise their actions in order to obtain benefits for their own. Using the concept of mimicry the author tries to grasp what it means to live in a society where political and economic life is dominated by elite groups and were social change is coming from different directions. Two case studies are presented here: one in which local stakeholders of home stay tourism achieve their goals to develop an acceptable form of co-habitation with ethnic minorities without questioning the state. Another case study focuses upon the rapid urbanization of the periphery of Hanoi where land grabbing and private economic gains of outsiders are at loggerheads with local experiences and perceptions of state-village relationships. The question remains what it means for Vietnam's modernization and the prospects of a civil society.