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  title info:
    title: Formula for failure in Vietnam
    sub title: the folly of limited warfare
  name:
    name part: Hamilton, William (William Alexander)
    name part: 1935-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: McInerney, Thomas
    role:
      role term: writer of foreword.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ncu
    date issued: 2020
    copyright date: 2020
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: ix, 163 pages ; 23 cm.
  abstract: Drawing on a range of sources, including original interviews with the commanders ordered to fight a land war in southeast Asia, a former U.S. Army infantry captain recounts his company's experiences carrying out those orders in Vietnam and Cambodia. The crucial flaws of the Johnson Administration's strategy of attrition in are analyzed, the failure to seal off the theater of battle from Chinese and Soviet resupply, and allowing North Vietnamese ground forces to maintain sanctuaries in Laos, Cambodia and even North Vietnam itself.
  table of contents: Setting the Stage for Failure -- An Army in Search of a Mission -- Beware of the Pale Civilian -- A War in Search of Strategy -- Riverine Warfare-On the Potomac -- Troops, Time, Tet, and Truth -- Conduct Unbecoming -- One War Too Far.
  note: William Hamilton ; foreword by Lt. Gen. Thomas G. McInerney, USAF (Ret.).
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-160) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Vietnam War, 1961-1975
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Limited war
  classification: DS558 .H355 2020
  classification: 959.704/340973
  identifier: 9781476679945
  identifier: 1476679940
  identifier: 9781476638188
  identifier: 2019047352
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 191016
    record change date: 20200716080043.0
    record identifier: in00004168981