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Sto caricando le informazioni... Withdrawal: Reassessing America's Final Years in Vietnam (edizione 2017)di Gregory A. Daddis (Autore)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. On one hand, speaking as a person who watched the collapse of Saigon in real time at sixteen-years of age, this study is simply a reminder of the lesson that intervening in another nation's civil war at the last second is probably an exercise in futility. On the other hand, the author also seems to be subjecting his own beliefs to ruthless analysis, as he would have been in West Point at the peak of Creighton Abram's reputation as the great military leader who had bought time for the South Vietnamese to make something of themselves; if only Congress had not betrayed Saigon out of pique with Dick Nixon. Daddis does an understanding, but tough-minded job of demonstrating why this narrative is a self-serving myth; one that it's past time to set aside. Those who admire Lewis Sorley's studies of Abrams will not be happy with this work. That said, this monograph is probably not the new analysis that Abrams' military career deserves. ( ) nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
A "better war." Over the last two decades, this term has become synonymous with US strategy during the Vietnam War's final years. The narrative is enticingly simple, appealing to many audiences. After the disastrous results of the 1968 Tet offensive, in which Hanoi's forces demonstrated thefailures of American strategy, popular history tells of a new American military commander who emerged in South Vietnam and with inspired leadership and a new approach turned around a long stalemated conflict. In fact, so successful was General Creighton Abrams in commanding US forces that, accordingto the "better war" myth, the United States had actually achieved victory by mid-1970. A new general with a new strategy had delivered, only to see his victory abandoned by weak-kneed politicians in Washington, DC who turned their backs on the US armed forces and their South Vietnamese allies.In a bold new interpretation of America's final years in Vietnam, acclaimed historian Gregory A. Daddis disproves these longstanding myths. Withdrawal is a groundbreaking reassessment that tells a far different story of the Vietnam War. Daddis convincingly argues that the entire US effort in SouthVietnam was incapable of reversing the downward trends of a complicated Vietnamese conflict that by 1968 had turned into a political-military stalemate. Despite a new articulation of strategy, Abrams's approach could not materially alter a war no longer vital to US national security or globaldominance. Once the Nixon White House made the political decision to withdraw from Southeast Asia, Abrams's military strategy was unable to change either the course or outcome of a decades' long Vietnamese civil war.In a riveting sequel to his celebrated Westmoreland's War, Daddis demonstrates he is one of the nation's leading scholars on the Vietnam War. Withdrawal will be a standard work for years to come. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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