What went wrong in Vietnam? Applying the principles of war (based on the classic On War by Carl von Clausewitz) to the actual conduct of the fighting in Vietnam, the author provides some cogent answers to this question. It is not possible to do justice to the comprehensive nature of this author's arguments in a summary. However, among the points he raises are: the differences between the civili…
More than two decades after the end of the Vietnam War, America's wounds have yet to heal; the war's divisiveness continues. Yet today, even the most hard-line hawks and doves share the conviction that, for better or worse, the antiwar movement played an important role in turning American opinion against the war, thereby limiting and ultimately ending U.S. military activity in Southeast Asia. I…
This radically new interpretation of the First World War and its causes, by one of the most brilliant of France's modern historians, reflects a new understanding of the nature of war, and its effects on society. Ferro sees the war as a natural response to pressures built into European society, and describes how revolutionary tension which was apparently submerged in 1914 burst out again in 1917…
Essentially a compendium of unknown facts, hidden details, and revealing statistics, Dirty Little Secrets of the Vietnam War allows us to see what really happened to American foes in Southeast Asia, separating popular myth from explosive reality in a clear concise manner. The book questions why the American military ignored lessons taught by previous encounters with insurgency forces; probes th…