Everyman in Vietnam : a soldier's journey into the quagmire /
Everyman in Vietnam: A Soldier's Journey into the Quagmire by Michael Adas and Joseph Gilch interweaves a macro perspective of American foreign policy during the war, with the individual-level perspective of one of the many soldiers who lived and died in the "quagmire." This unique pe...
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue : In the Ho Bo woods: June 28, 1966
- Divergent trajectories: America and Vietnam after World War II
- The promise of prosperity in postwar America
- The struggle to liberate a shattered land, 1945-1954
- Early US interventions in Indochina
- Exemplar of modernity
- Cold war convergences
- Flawed settlement at Geneva and a nation divided
- Coming of age in Cold War America
- The invention of South Vietnam
- The mounting costs of containment
- Rebel without a cause
- The making of a quagmire
- Draft decisions
- Lyndon Johnson's dilemmas
- Basic training: Fort Dix, New Jersey, September 1965
- Renewing the war for independence
- Off to war, January 1966
- Into the quagmire
- Angst and escalation
- Contested ground
- Arrival in Nam, February 1966
- Terms of engagement
- In pursuit of an elusive enemy, late February 1966
- In dubious battle
- The lessons of Ia Drang
- The good soldier, March 1966
- Rethinking the path to liberation
- Ambivalence and disillusionment, March 1966
- McNamara's predicament
- Finding his own mission, March-April 1966
- The price of attrition
- Surviving the stalemate, April, 1966
- An unwinnable war
- Losing hope, mid-April-early May 1966
- Confounding the colossus
- Waiting for leave, June-July 1966
- Return to Filhol, late July, 1966
- Epilogue.