Losing Binh Dinh : the failure of pacification and Vietnamization, 1969-1971 /
Focusing on WASHINGTON GREEN, an ambitious but flawed American-led operation, Boylan tests and ultimately challenges the "Lost Victory" argument of recent Revisionist histories of the Vietnam War. Those histories contend that domestic politics robbed the American military of a triumph it h...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Lawrence :
University Press of Kansas,
[2016]
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| Series: | Modern war studies.
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| Online Access: | Contributor biographical information Publisher description Table of contents only |
| Summary: | Focusing on WASHINGTON GREEN, an ambitious but flawed American-led operation, Boylan tests and ultimately challenges the "Lost Victory" argument of recent Revisionist histories of the Vietnam War. Those histories contend that domestic politics robbed the American military of a triumph it had actually already achieved when it was forced to abandon Vietnam. Taking a much closer look at pacification and Vietnamization in a key province during a pivotal period in the war, Boylan concludes that the "Lost Victory" argument is a weak one at best and clearly compromised by the particular case of Binh Dinh. |
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| Physical Description: | ix, 366 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780700623525 0700623523 |