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History of Asia --- History of North America --- Polemology --- anno 1960-1969 --- anno 1970-1979 --- Vietnam --- United States --- Conflit vietnamien --- Guerre du Viet-nam, 1961-1975 --- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 --- Vietnamees conflict --- Vietnamese conflict --- Vietnamoorlog, 1961-1975 --- History --- 1945-1975 --- United States of America

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Kennedy, John F.

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In one of the most detailed and powerfully argued books published on American intervention in Vietnam, Fredrik Logevall examines the last great unanswered question on the war: Could the tragedy have been averted? His answer: a resounding yes. Challenging the prevailing myth that the outbreak of large-scale fighting in 1965 was essentially unavoidable, Choosing War argues that the Vietnam War was unnecessary, not merely in hindsight but in the context of its time. Why, then, did major war break out? Logevall shows it was partly because of the timidity of the key opponents of U.S. involvement, and partly because of the staunch opposition of the Kennedy and Johnson administrations to early negotiations. His superlative account shows that U.S. officials chose war over disengagement despite deep doubts about the war's prospects and about Vietnam's importance to U.S. security and over the opposition of important voices in the Congress, in the press, and in the world community. They did so because of concerns about credibility--not so much America's or the Democratic party's credibility, but their own personal credibility. Based on six years of painstaking research, this book is the first to place American policymaking on Vietnam in 1963-65 in its wider international context using multiarchival sources, many of them recently declassified. Here we see for the first time how the war played in the key world capitals--not merely in Washington, Saigon, and Hanoi, but also in Paris and London, in Tokyo and Ottawa, in Moscow and Beijing. Choosing War is a powerful and devastating account of fear, favor, and hypocrisy at the highest echelons of American government, a book that will change forever our understanding of the tragedy that was the Vietnam War.

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In this work, 17 leading historians of the Cold War and US foreign policy show how Nixon, Kissinger, and Ford managed America's relative decline in the 1970s. It shows where they succeeded and where they took their new strategy too far.

Nixon, Richard M. --- Kissinger, Henry, --- Ford, Gerald R., --- King, Leslie Lynch, --- フォード, --- Kissinger, Henry Alfred --- Kīsinjar, Hinrī, --- Chi-hsin-chi, --- Kissinger, Henry Alfred, --- Kissinger, Henry A., --- Kissinker, Chenry, --- Kissinger, Heinz Alfred, --- Kisinker, Chenri, --- Kisintzer, Chenri, --- קיסינג׳ר, הנרי --- קיסינג׳ר, הנרי, --- קיסנג׳ר, הנרי, --- كسنگر، هنري،, --- 基辛格亨利, --- Ni-kʻo-sung, --- Nikesong, --- Nikson, Ričard Milhaus, --- Ni-kʻo-hsün, --- Nikexun, --- Nikesen, --- Ni-kʻo-sen, --- Niksūn, Rītshārd, --- Nixon, Richard Milhous, --- Nixon, Richard, --- Political and social views. --- United States --- Foreign relations

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"Fifty years since the signing of the Paris Peace Accords signaled the final withdrawal of U.S. troops from Vietnam, the war's mark on the Pacific world remains. The essays gathered here offer an essential, postcolonial interpretation of a struggle rooted not only in Indochinese history but also in the wider Asia Pacific region. Extending the Vietnam War's historiography away from a singular focus on American policies and experiences and toward fundamental regional dynamics, the book reveals a truly global struggle that made the Pacific world what it is today"--

Guerre du Viêt-nam, 1961-1975 --- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 --- Histoire. --- History. --- Southeast Asia. --- Pacific Area. --- Asie du Sud-Est --- Pacifique, Region du --- Southeast Asia --- Pacific Area --- Histoire --- Histoire --- History --- History