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Perils of dominance : imbalance of power and the road to war in Vietnam
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Perils of dominance : imbalance of power and the road to war in Vietnam / Gareth Porter.
ISBN
0520239482 (cloth : alk. paper)
Published
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2005.
Physical Description
xviii, 403 p. ; 23 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 23, 2005
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The imbalance of power, 1953-1965
The Soviets and Chinese appease the United States
Eisenhower and Dulles exploit U.S. dominance in Vietnam
North Vietnamese policy under the American threat
Kennedy's struggle with the national security bureaucracy
Johnson, McNamara and the Tonkin Gulf crisis
Bureaucratic pressures and the decisions for war
Dominoes, bandwagons and the road to war.
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