After Vietnam
Johns Hopkins University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8018-6332-5 (ISBN)
Finally, Robert S. McNamara, aware of the magnitude of his errors and burdened by the war's destructiveness, draws lessons from his experience with the aim of preventing wars in the future.
Charles E. Neu is a professor and chair in the department of history at Brown University. He is the author of The Troubled Encounter: The United States and Japan and An Uncertain Friendship: Theodore Roosevelt and Japan and the editor of The Wilson Era: Essays in Honor of Arthur S. Link. Contributors: Brian Balogh, University of Virginia; Robert K. Brigham, Vassar College; George C. Herring, University of Kentucky; and Robert S. McNamara, former president of the Ford Motor Company, secretary of defense, and president of the World Bank.
Foreword
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Vietnam War and the Transformation of America
Chapter 2. From Metaphor to Quagmire: The Domestic Legacy of the Vietnam War
Chapter 3. Preparing Not to Refight the Last War: TheImpact of the Vietnam War on the U.S. Military
Chapter 4. Revolutionary Heroism and Politics in Postwar Vietnam
Chapter 5. Reflections on War in the Twenty-first Century
Notes
Contributors
Index
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 11.8.2000 |
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Verlagsort | Baltimore, MD |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 133 x 203 mm |
Gewicht | 198 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
ISBN-10 | 0-8018-6332-5 / 0801863325 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-8018-6332-5 / 9780801863325 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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