Lessons in disaster : McGeorge Bundy and the path to war in Vietnam / Gordon M. Goldstein.
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نصالناشر:New York : Times Books/Henry Holt and Company, 2008الطبعات:1st edوصف:xiii, 300 pages ; 25 cmنوع المحتوى:- text
- unmediated
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- 9780805079715 (pbk)
- 0805079718 (pbk)
- United States -- Foreign relations -- Vietnam
- Vietnam -- Foreign relations -- United States
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Causes
- Bundy, McGeorge
- Bundy, McGeorge -- Political and social views
- Political consultants -- United States -- Biography
- Presidents -- United States -- Staff -- Biography
- United States -- Foreign relations -- 1961-1963 -- Decision making
- United States -- Foreign relations -- 1963-1969 -- Decision making
- National Security Council (U.S.) -- History -- 20th century
- National security -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- E183.8.V5 G64 2008
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [249]-284) and index.
The Kennedy and Johnson Administrations, 1961-66 -- Introduction. Legend of the Establishment -- Lesson 1. Counselors Advise but Presidents Decide -- Lesson 2. Never Trust the Bureaucracy to Get It Right -- Lesson 3. Politics Is the Enemy of Strategy -- Lesson 4. Conviction Without Rigor Is a Strategy for Disaster -- Lesson 5. Never Deploy Military Means in Pursuit of Indeterminate Ends -- Lesson 6. Intervention Is a Presidential Choice, Not an Inevitability.
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.
