The irony of Vietnam : the system worked
- Title
- The irony of Vietnam : the system worked / Leslie H. Gelb, with Richard K. Betts ; foreword by Fareed Zakaria.
- Published by
- Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, [2016]
- ©2016
- Author
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- Description
- xxii, 412 pages; 22 cm
- Series statement
- The Brookings classics
- Uniform title
- Brookings classics.
- Subject
- Contents
- Part I. Decisions: getting into Vietnam -- Patterns, dilemmas, and explanations -- Recurrent patterns and dilemmas from Roosevelt to Eisenhower -- Picking up the torch: the Kennedy Administration -- Intervention in force: the Johnson Administration, I -- Coming home to roost: the Johnson Administration, II -- Part II. The imperative not to lose -- National security goals and stakes -- Domestic political stakes -- The bureaucracy and the inner circle -- Part III. Means: the minimum necessary and the maximum feasible -- Constraints -- Pressures and the president -- Part IV. Perceptions: realism, hope, and compromise -- Optimism, pessimism, and credibility -- The strategy of perseverance -- Part V. Conclusions -- The lessons of Vietnam.
- Call number
- JFD 16-5047
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Author
- Gelb, Leslie H., author.
- Title
- The irony of Vietnam : the system worked / Leslie H. Gelb, with Richard K. Betts ; foreword by Fareed Zakaria.
- Publisher
- Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, [2016]
- Copyright date
- ©2016
- Type of content
- text
- Type of medium
- unmediated
- Type of carrier
- volume
- Series
- The Brookings classics
- Brookings classics.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local note
- ANALYSIS OF U.S. FOREIGN POLICY. REPRINT OF 1979 ED. W/ NEW PREFACE & FOREWORD.
- Chronological term
- 1961-1975
- Added author
- Betts, Richard K., 1947- author.
- Other form:
- Online version: Gelb, Leslie H., author. Irony of Vietnam Second edition. Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, 2016 9780815726791 (DLC) 2016021445
- LCCN
- 2016017464
- ISBN
- 9780815726784 paperback alkaline paper
- 0815726783 paperback alkaline paper
- Research call number
- JFD 16-5047