War of Numbers
An Intelligence Memoir of the Vietnam War's Uncounted Enemy
In the fall of 1967, political and military leaders in Washington said the Vietnam War was approaching the crossover point: More Vietcong soldiers were dying in battle each week than could be recruited. CIA analyst Sam Adams, however, was insisting the good news was an illusion. His estimates of enemy ranks and morale varied wildly from those being released by military intelligence for public consumption, and for use by commanders in the field. Adams' findings indicated the war was unwinnable, and when US leaders failed to acknowledge basic facts, he knew the intelligence was being politicized. From inside the CIA and then after quitting t…
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- ISBN: 978-1-58642-267-7
- EAN: 9781586422677
- Produktnummer: 33667549
- Verlag: Steerforth Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 304 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'440 KB
Über den Autor
Sam Adams was a graduate of Harvard College and spent ten years as an analyst for the CIA. He was completing this memoir when he died of a heart attack in 1988. INTRODUCTION WRITER COL. DAVID HACKWORTH was the author of About Face and was the youngest full Colonel in the US Army when he resigned in protest over the Vietnam war in 1971. He died in 2005. FOREWORD WRITER DR. JOHN PRADOS is a senior research fellow on national security affairs, including foreign affairs, intelligence, and military subjects, at the National Security Archive. He also directs the Archive's Iraq Documentation Project, as well as its Vietnam Project. He holds a PhD in International Relations from Columbia University. His books Vietnam: The History of an Unwinnable War, 1945-1975, Keepers of the Keys' and Combined Fleet Decoded were each nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. He has published articles in Vanity Fair, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, and The Boston Globe.
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