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Masters of War: Military Dissent and Politics in the Vietnam Era Paperback - 1997

by Robert Buzzanco

Here is yet another look at America's involvement in the Vietnam Warand perhaps a more revealing one. From a fresh perspective Robert Buzzanco chronicles the role of military dissent and that Vietnam was actually a politician's war, going all the way back to John F. Kennedy. Has Buzzanco pulled away a veil so thin as to be previously invisible?


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Throughout the past decade, defenders of the U.S. role in Vietnam have argued that America's defeat was not the result of an illegitimate intervention or military shortcomings, but rather a failure of will because national leaders, principally Lyndon B. Johnson, forced the troops to "fight with one hand tied behind their backs." In this volume, Robert Buzzanco disproves this theory by demonstrating that political leaders, not the military brass, pressed for war; that American policymakers always understood the problems and peril of war in Indochina; and that civil-military acrimony and the political desire to defer responsibility for Vietnam helped lead the United States into the war. For the first time, these crucial issues of military dissent, interservice rivalries, and civil-military relations and politics have been tied together to provide a cogent and comprehensive analysis of the U.S. role in Vietnam.

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Although American leaders in the following decade would establish Vietnam as the central battlefield in the global cold war, U.S. military officials in the 1950s consistently opposed expanded commitments to and intervention in Indochina.

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  • Title Masters of War: Military Dissent and Politics in the Vietnam Era
  • Author Robert Buzzanco
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Paperback
  • Pages 404
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
  • Date 1997-02-28
  • ISBN 9780521599405 / 0521599407
  • Weight 1.17 lbs (0.53 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.98 x 5.94 x 0.91 in (22.81 x 15.09 x 2.31 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Cultural Region: Southeast Asian
  • Dewey Decimal Code 959.7
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