The Resource Withdrawal : reassessing America's final years in Vietnam, Gregory A. Daddis
Withdrawal : reassessing America's final years in Vietnam, Gregory A. Daddis
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- Summary
- "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 the failures 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, according to 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 South Vietnam 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 global dominance. 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"--Jacket
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xvii, 300 pages
- Contents
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- Introduction: the limits of strategy in a stalemated war
- Abe's "one war": continuity in change
- Vietnamization: policy of withdrawal or strategy for "victory"?
- Pacification without peace: the travails of nation building
- Balancing a war: the coordination of force and diplomacy
- A beleaguered army at a long war's end
- From victory to defeat?: Abrams's final years
- Epilogue and conclusions: questioning "victory" in an American war
- Isbn
- 9780190691080
- Label
- Withdrawal : reassessing America's final years in Vietnam
- Title
- Withdrawal
- Title remainder
- reassessing America's final years in Vietnam
- Statement of responsibility
- Gregory A. Daddis
- Title variation
- Reassessing America's final years in Vietnam
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "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 the failures 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, according to 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 South Vietnam 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 global dominance. 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"--Jacket
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1967-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Daddis, Gregory A.
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- maps
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Vietnam War (1961-1975)
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975
- HISTORY
- HISTORY
- United States
- HISTORY
- USA
- Vietnamkrieg
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975
- Label
- Withdrawal : reassessing America's final years in Vietnam, Gregory A. Daddis
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-293) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
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- Contents
- Introduction: the limits of strategy in a stalemated war -- Abe's "one war": continuity in change -- Vietnamization: policy of withdrawal or strategy for "victory"? -- Pacification without peace: the travails of nation building -- Balancing a war: the coordination of force and diplomacy -- A beleaguered army at a long war's end -- From victory to defeat?: Abrams's final years -- Epilogue and conclusions: questioning "victory" in an American war
- Control code
- 975861891
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- xvii, 300 pages
- Isbn
- 9780190691080
- Lccn
- 2017010396
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Note
- Master record variable field(s) change: 520
- Other control number
- 40027466885
- Other physical details
- illustrations, maps
- System control number
- (OCoLC)975861891
- Label
- Withdrawal : reassessing America's final years in Vietnam, Gregory A. Daddis
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-293) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction: the limits of strategy in a stalemated war -- Abe's "one war": continuity in change -- Vietnamization: policy of withdrawal or strategy for "victory"? -- Pacification without peace: the travails of nation building -- Balancing a war: the coordination of force and diplomacy -- A beleaguered army at a long war's end -- From victory to defeat?: Abrams's final years -- Epilogue and conclusions: questioning "victory" in an American war
- Control code
- 975861891
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- xvii, 300 pages
- Isbn
- 9780190691080
- Lccn
- 2017010396
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Note
- Master record variable field(s) change: 520
- Other control number
- 40027466885
- Other physical details
- illustrations, maps
- System control number
- (OCoLC)975861891
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