Leslie H. Gelb

The Irony of Vietnam

The System Worked

Buch

When first published in 1979, four years after the end of one of the mostdivisive conflicts in the United States, The Irony of Vietnam raised eyebrows. Most critics argued that the country had stumbled into a quagmire in Vietnam through hubris and miscalculation,” as the New York Times put it. But Leslie H. Gelb and Richard K. Betts, who had reviewed recently declassified White House and Defense Department documents, maintained that policymakers in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations had their eyes open, had based decisions on a thorough knowledge of what was possible on the ground, and knew the cost of action and inaction. Explains Faree… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-8157-2678-4
EAN: 9780815726784
Produktnummer: 19231134
Verlag: Brookings Institution
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Seitenangabe: 486 S.
Masse: H14.3 cm x B24.0 cm x D3.8 cm 582 g
Auflage: With a New Foreword
Gewicht: 582
Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)

Über den Autor

Leslie H. Gelb is among America's most prominent foreign policy experts. A Pulitzer Prize winner, former correspondent for the New York Times, and senior official in the state and defense departments, he is currently president emeritus and board senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, where he served as president from 1993 to 2003. When he conceived of The Irony of Vietnam, which was awarded the American Political Science Association's Woodrow Wilson Award, he was a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.Richard K. Betts is an adjunct senior fellow for national security studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, the Arnold A. Saltzman professor of war and peace studies, as well as director of the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies, and director of the international security policy program in the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. On the faculty of Harvard University when he began work on The Irony of Vietnam, he completed it while a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.