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Blowtorch : Robert Komer, Vietnam, and American Cold War strategy /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jones, Frank L. (Frank Leith)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Annapolis, Maryland : Naval Institute Press, [2013]
Subjects:
Komer, Robert, > 1922-2000.
National security > United States > History > 20th century.
United States. > Military Assistance Command, Vietnam. > Civil Operations and Rural Development Support > Biography.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 > United States > Biography.
United States > Armed Forces > Vietnam > Civic action.
Intelligence officers > United States > Biography.
National Security Council (U.S.) > Officials and employees > Biography.
United States. > Department of Defense > Officials and employees > Biography.
United States > Military policy > Decision making.
Cold War.
Table of Contents:
  • Toward the New Frontier
  • A man of proper ambition
  • Pragmatic new frontiersman
  • Komer's war
  • "Our India enterprise"
  • Lyndon Johnson's man
  • Pacification czar
  • A new thrust to pacification
  • In country
  • Taking off
  • The year of the monkey
  • The old fox gets fired
  • Revival and departure
  • A new transatlantic bargain
  • Pentagon policymaker
  • The sin of unilateralism
  • The wisdom of hindsight: Vietnam reassessed
  • Conclusion.