TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gelb,Leslie H.
AU  - Betts,Richard K.
AU  - Zakaria,Fareed Rafiq
TI  - The irony of Vietnam: the system worked 
SN  - 9780815726784 (pbk. : alk. paper)
AV  - 438 E 183.8 G314i 2016
U1  - 327.730597 
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Washington, D.C.
PB  - Brookings Institution Press
KW  - Vietnam War, 1961-1975
KW  - Guerra de Vietnam, 1961-1975
KW  - United States
KW  - Foreign relations
KW  - Vietnam
KW  - Estados Unidos
KW  - Relaciones exteriores
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Part I. Decisions: getting into Vietnam -- Patterns, dilemmas, and explanations -- Recurrent patterns and dilemmas from Roosevelt to Eisenhower -- Picking up the torch: the Kennedy Administration -- Intervention in force: the Johnson Administration, I -- Coming home to roost: the Johnson Administration, II -- Part II. The imperative not to lose -- National security goals and stakes -- Domestic political stakes -- The bureaucracy and the inner circle -- Part III. Means: the minimum necessary and the maximum feasible -- Constraints -- Pressures and the president -- Part IV. Perceptions: realism, hope, and compromise -- Optimism, pessimism, and credibility -- The strategy of perseverance -- Part V. Conclusions -- The lessons of Vietnam
ER  -