Bibliograph

Lessons in disaster, McGeorge Bundy and the path to war in Vietnam, Gordon M. Goldstein

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Lessons in disaster, McGeorge Bundy and the path to war in Vietnam, Gordon M. Goldstein

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-284) and index

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Lessons in disaster

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

243543864

Responsibility statement

Gordon M. Goldstein

Sub title

McGeorge Bundy and the path to war in Vietnam

Summary

Drawing on prodigious research as well as the interviews and analysis he has conducted with former National Security Adviser McGeorge Bundy, Goldstein offers this revelatory look at the decisions that led to the U.S. involvement in Vietnam

Table Of Contents

Legend of the establishment -- Counselors advise but presidents decide -- Never trust the bureaucracy to get it right -- Politics is the enemy of strategy -- Conviction without rigor is a strategy for disaster -- Never deploy military means in pursuit of indeterminate ends -- Intervention is a presidential choice, not an inevitability

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