U.S. Military Policy in South Vietnam, 1954-1963
Title | U.S. Military Policy in South Vietnam, 1954-1963 PDF eBook |
Author | George Yarrington Coats |
Publisher | |
Pages | 178 |
Release | 1963 |
Genre | United States |
ISBN |
American Policy Toward Vietnam, 1954-1963
Title | American Policy Toward Vietnam, 1954-1963 PDF eBook |
Author | Alan Francis Arcuri |
Publisher | |
Pages | 242 |
Release | 1963 |
Genre | United States |
ISBN |
Triumph Forsaken
Title | Triumph Forsaken PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Moyar |
Publisher | |
Pages | 512 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Vietnam |
ISBN | 9780511322884 |
"Drawing on a wealth of new evidence from all sides, Triumph Forsaken overturns most of the historical orthodoxy on the Vietnam War. Through the analysis of international perceptions and power, it shows that South Vietnam was a vital interest of the United States. The book provides many new insights into the overthrow of Ngo Dinh Diem in 1963 and demonstrates that the coup negated the South Vietnamese government's tremendous, and hitherto unappreciated, military and political gains between 1954 and 1963. After Diem's assassination, President Lyndon Johnson had at his disposal several aggressive policy options that could have enabled South Vietnam to continue the war without a massive US troop infusion, but he ruled out these options because of faulty assumptions and inadequate intelligence, making such an infusion the only means of saving the country." http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0642/2006008555-d.html.
U.S. Marines In Vietnam: The Advisory And Combat Assistance Era, 1954-1964
Title | U.S. Marines In Vietnam: The Advisory And Combat Assistance Era, 1954-1964 PDF eBook |
Author | Capt. Robert H. Whitlow |
Publisher | Pickle Partners Publishing |
Pages | 416 |
Release | 2016-08-09 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 178720085X |
This is the first of a series of chronological histories prepared by the Marine Corps History and Museums Division to cover the entire span of Marine Corps involvement in the Vietnam conflict. This particular volume covers a relatively obscure chapter in U.S. Marine Corps history—the activities of Marines in Vietnam between 1954 and 1964. The narrative traces the evolution of those activities from a one-man advisory operation at the conclusion of the French-Indochina War in 1954 to the advisory and combat support activities of some 700 Marines at the end of 1964. As the introductory volume for the series this account has an important secondary objective: to establish a geographical, political, and military foundation upon which the subsequent histories can be developed.
Confronting Vietnam
Title | Confronting Vietnam PDF eBook |
Author | Ilya V. Gaiduk |
Publisher | Stanford University Press |
Pages | 328 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780804747127 |
Based on extensive research in the Russian archives, this book examines the Soviet approach to the Vietnam conflict between the 1954 Geneva conference on Indochina and late 1963, when the overthrow of the South Vietnamese president Ngo Dinh Diem and the assassination of John F. Kennedy radically transformed the conflict. The author finds that the USSR attributed no geostrategic importance to Indochina and did not want the crisis there to disrupt détente. The Russians had high hopes that the Geneva accords would bring years of peace in the region. Gradually disillusioned, they tried to strengthen North Vietnam, but would not support unification of North and South. By the early 1960s, however, they felt obliged to counter the American embrace of an aggressively anti-Communist regime in South Vietnam and the hostility of its former ally, the People's Republic of China. Finally, Moscow decided to disengage from Vietnam, disappointed that its efforts to avert an international crisis there had failed.
Hanoi's Road to the Vietnam War, 1954-1965
Title | Hanoi's Road to the Vietnam War, 1954-1965 PDF eBook |
Author | Pierre Asselin |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 352 |
Release | 2015-08-18 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0520287495 |
"Using new and largely inaccessible Vietnamese sources as well as French, British, Canadian and American archives, Pierre Asselin sheds valuable light on Hanoi's path to war. Step by step the narrative makes Hanoi's revolutionary strategy from the end of the French Indochina War to the start of the Anti-American Resistance Struggle for Reunification and National Salvation (the Vietnam War) transparent. The book reveals how North Vietnamese leaders moved from a cautious policy emphasizing nonviolent political and diplomatic struggle to a far riskier pursuit of military victory"--
Triumph Forsaken
Title | Triumph Forsaken PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Moyar |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 551 |
Release | 2006-08-28 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 113945921X |
Drawing on a wealth of new evidence from all sides, Triumph Forsaken, first published in 2007, overturns most of the historical orthodoxy on the Vietnam War. Through the analysis of international perceptions and power, it shows that South Vietnam was a vital interest of the United States. The book provides many insights into the overthrow of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem in 1963 and demonstrates that the coup negated the South Vietnamese government's tremendous, and hitherto unappreciated, military and political gains between 1954 and 1963. After Diem's assassination, President Lyndon Johnson had at his disposal several aggressive policy options that could have enabled South Vietnam to continue the war without a massive US troop infusion, but he ruled out these options because of faulty assumptions and inadequate intelligence, making such an infusion the only means of saving the country.