Why Vietnam Matters: An Eyewitness Account of Lessons Not Learned

Rufus Phillips

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Language: English

Published by Naval Institute Press, 2008

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Rufus Phillips offers an extraordinary inside history of the most critical years of American involvement in Vietnam, from 1954 to 1968, and explains why it still matters. Describing what went right and then wrong, he contends that our failure to understand the Communists, our South Vietnamese allies, or even ourselves took us down the wrong road of a conventional war until it was too late--we missed the war's essential political character. Documenting the story from his own personal files, now available at the Texas Tech Vietnam Archive, as well as from the historical record, the former government official paints striking portraits of such key figures as John F. Kennedy, Maxwell Taylor, Robert McNamara, Henry Cabot Lodge, Hubert Humphrey, and Ngo Dinh Diem, among others with whom he dealt.

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Why Vietnam Matters: An Eyewitness Account of Lessons Not Learned
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Rufus Phillips
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Naval Institute Press
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2008
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English
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