Why Vietnam Matters: An Eyewitness Account of Lessons Not Learned

Rufus C Phillips III

ISBN 10: 1591146747 / ISBN 13: 9781591146742

Editore: Naval Institute Press, 2008

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Riassunto:

Rufus Phillips offers an extraordinary inside history of the most critical years of American involvement in Vietnam, from 1954 to 1968, and explains why it still matters. Describing what went right and then wrong, he contends that our failure to understand the Communists, our South Vietnamese allies, or even ourselves took us down the wrong road of a conventional war until it was too late—we missed the war’s essential political character. Documenting the story from his own personal files, now available at the Texas Tech Vietnam Archive, as well as from the historical record, the former government official paints striking portraits of such key figures as John F. Kennedy, Maxwell Taylor, Robert McNamara, Henry Cabot Lodge, Hubert Humphrey, and Ngo Dinh Diem, among others with whom he dealt."

Informazioni sull'autore:

Rufus Phillips became a member of the Saigon Military Mission in 1954 and the following year served as the sole adviser to two Vietnamese army pacification operations, earning the CIA's Intelligence Medal of Merit for his work. He later worked as a CIA civilian case officer in Vietnam and Laos, then joined the U.S. Agency for International Development's Saigon Mission to lead its counterinsurgency efforts. In 1964 he became a consultant for USAID and the State Department and served as an adviser to Vice President Hubert Humphrey. He lives in Arlington, VA.

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Titolo: Why Vietnam Matters: An Eyewitness Account ...
Casa editrice: Naval Institute Press
Data di pubblicazione: 2008
Legatura: Hardcover
Condizione: Very Good
Condizione sovraccoperta: No Jacket