Vietnam Trauma in American Foreign Policy
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A01=Alan R. Beals
A01=Paul M. Kattenburg
American foreign policy
Author_Alan R. Beals
Author_Paul M. Kattenburg
Category=JPQB
Category=NHK
Chapter Iii
CIA Program
civilian militarists
Cold War decision making
containment strategy
East Indies
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escalation dynamics
foreign relations
Ground Forces
Indochina policy analysis
International Monetary Fund
Multilateral NATO
National Liberation
National Liberation Wars
NATO Structure
NATO Treaty
presidential crisis management
South Vietnam
South Vietnamese
Souvanna Phouma
U.S. intervention in Southeast Asia
Viet Minh Movement
Vietnam trauma
Vietnamese conflict
West Germany
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780878559039
- Weight: 680g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 30 Jan 1980
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This study of ten fateful decisions made on Indochina between 1961-75 highlights the ascent of the civilian militarists and of strategy over diplomacy in United States policymaking and reveals the inexorably interlinked and escalating character of the decisions and the central purpose of American presidents: not to have to face the expected domestic political consequences of defeat in Indochina. As a result, we were led into a prolonged stalemate in which "acting" and the management of programs became a more important preoccupation than thinking about our purposes and values, in which analysis become wholly subjective and therefore defective, and in which decision-making occurred in a closed system which did not allow for divergent inputs.
Beals, Alan R. | Kattenburg, Paul M.
