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Why Vietnam Matters
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- Book Synopsis
- Rufus Phillips gives 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 finds 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 lateâi"we missed the war's essential political character. Documenting the story from his own private files as well as from the historical record, the former CIA officer 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.
- About The Author
- Rufus Phillips spent much of his time over a fourteen-year period in South Vietnam as an army officer, CIA Case Officer, USAID counterinsurgency official and State Department consultant. More recently he has provided counterinsurgency advice in Afghanistan. He was inducted into the U.S. Army OCS Hall of Fame and appears in Ken Burns's documentary film series, The Vietnam War.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781682473108
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Naval Institute Press, (28 September 2017)
- Number of Pages
- 448
- Weight
- 805 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 246 x 172 x 30 mm
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