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Lessons in disaster : McGeorge Bundy and the path to war in Vietnam
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Lessons in disaster : McGeorge Bundy and the path to war in Vietnam / Gordon M. Goldstein.
ISBN
9780805079715
0805079718
Edition
1st ed.
Published
New York : Times Books/Henry Holt and Co., 2008.
Physical Description
xiii, 300 p. ; 25 cm.
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.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 22, 2009
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-284) and index.
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.
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