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Losing Binh Dinh: The Failure of Pacification and Vietnamization, 1969-1971
Kevin M. Boylan
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Hardback. A detailed and thorough challenge to the Revisionist historians' claims that the Vietnam War was in fact won in the period after the 1968 Tet Offensive only to be thrown away by media influence on a war weary public. Series: Modern War Studies. Num Pages: 416 pages, 4 illustrations, 27 maps. BIC Classification: 1FMV; 1KBB; 3JJP; HBJF; HBLW3; HBWS2; JWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 33. Weight in Grams: 680.
Americans have fought two prolonged battles over Vietnam-one in southeast Asia and one, ongoing even now, at home-over whether the war was unnecessary, unjust, and unwinnable. Revisionist historians who reject this view have formulated many contra-factual scenarios for how the war might have been won, but also put forward one historically testable hypothesis-namely that the war actually was won after the 1968 Tet Offensive, only to be thrown away later through a failure of political will. It is this ""Lost Victory"" hypothesis that Kevin M. Boylan takes up in Losing Binh Dinh, aiming to determine once and for all whether ... Read more
Americans have fought two prolonged battles over Vietnam-one in southeast Asia and one, ongoing even now, at home-over whether the war was unnecessary, unjust, and unwinnable. Revisionist historians who reject this view have formulated many contra-factual scenarios for how the war might have been won, but also put forward one historically testable hypothesis-namely that the war actually was won after the 1968 Tet Offensive, only to be thrown away later through a failure of political will. It is this ""Lost Victory"" hypothesis that Kevin M. Boylan takes up in Losing Binh Dinh, aiming to determine once and for all whether ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University Press of Kansas United States
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
Series
Modern War Studies
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
Kansas, United States
ISBN
9780700623525
SKU
V9780700623525
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About Kevin M. Boylan
Kevin M. Boylan was employed for ten years as a defense analyst by the US Army Staff and the Office of Assistant Secretary of Defense for Program Analysis and Evaluation. He is currently an instructor of history at the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, USA.
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