Timothy Lomperis argues that the lessons of American involvement in Vietnam are not to be found in any analysis of the war by itself. Rather, he proposes a comparison of the Vietnam experience with seven other cases of Western intervention in communist insurgencies during the Cold War era: China, Indochina, Greece, the Philippines, Malaya, Cambodia, and Laos. Lomperis maintains that popular ins…
This book is a story full of violence and numbing despair, but also one rich with lessons for American foreign policy, based on extensive research in U.S. Army archives and many personal interviews with those who experienced the Vietnam war in Hau Nghia, during the period of 1963–1973.
Includes bibliographical references and index