| Description |
xi, 271 p. : map ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : the Vietnam War : a look back, a look ahead ; Vietnam and its wars : a historical overview of U.S. involvement / William Head -- The global dimensions and legacies of a brushfire war / Marc Jason Gilbert --The Johnson administration's conduct of limited war in Vietnam / George C. Herring -- From the Tonkin Gulf to the Persian Gulf : the devolution of the Senate's role in war making / Caroline F. Ziemke --China and the revisionist thesis / John W. Garver -- Bombing our way back home : the commando hunt and menu campaigns of 1969-1973 / Earl H. Tilford, Jr. -- Of demons, storms, and thunder : a preliminary look at Vietnam's impact on the Persian Gulf air campaign / Mark Clodfelter --North Vietnamese air defenses during the Vietnam War / Douglas Pike -- If at first you don't succeed, try to rewrite history : revisionism and the Vietnam War / John M. Gates. |
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(cont.) Everything is perfect and getting better : the myths and measures of the American ground war in Indochina, 1965-1968 / Larry E. Cable -- The lessons and ghosts of Vietnam / Lorenzo M. Crowell --Reflections on the Vietnam War : the views of a Vietnamese on Vietnamese-American misconceptions / Bui Diem. |
| Subject |
Vietnam War, 1961-1975.
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| Added Author |
Head, William P., 1949-
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Grinter, Lawrence E.
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| ISBN |
0275945533 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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0275945553 (pbk) |
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