Unholy Grail: The US And The Wars In Vietnam 1965-8

Routledge, 1991. First. Hardback. Very Good. Outline:- The aim of "Unholy Grail" is to examine and explain the failures which caused the American defeat in Vietnam. Based on primary sources including the recently declassified holdings of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Archive the work focuses upon the formulation execution and assessments of American policy in Vietnam between the troop deployment decision of July 1965 and President Johnson`s speech of 31st March 1968. While there are few heroes and several villains it was the shared intellectual heritage of the war`s planners and managers which ensured the America`s failure. As Larry Cable argues the United States was not so much out-fought by the North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong as out-thought. The intellectual errors were compounded by a pervasive inability on the part of the military high command and the administration to accept the intelligence reports which repeatedly portrayed the failure of key elements of American strategy particularly with respect to the air campaign in North Vietnam. This book should be of interest to students and lecturers in military history.-> the publisher of this HARDBACK book is Routledge The date of this copy is 1991 booksalvation have grade it as Very Good and it will be shipped from our UK warehouse This book is from the Series. Shipping is Free for UK buyers and at a reasonable charge for buyer outside the UK