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A Clash of Cultures: Civil-Military Relations during the Vietnam War
Orrin Schwab
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Description for A Clash of Cultures: Civil-Military Relations during the Vietnam War
Hardback. Depicts the intense and complex relationship between the US military and both its supporters and opponents in American civil society during the Vietnam War. This study argues that divergent ideological systems determined the specific nature of US intervention. Series: In War and in Peace: U.S. Civil-Military Relations. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: HBJF; HBJK; HBWS2; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 494.
The Vietnam War was in many ways defined by a civil-military divide, an underlying clash between military and civilian leadership over the conflict's nature, purpose and results. This book explores the reasons for that clash—and the results of it. The relationships between the U.S. military, its supporters, and its opponents during the Vietnam War were both intense and complex. Schwab shows how the ability of the military to prosecute the war was complicated by these relationships, and by a variety of nonmilitary considerations that grew from them. Chief among these was the military's relationship to a civilian state that ... Read more
The Vietnam War was in many ways defined by a civil-military divide, an underlying clash between military and civilian leadership over the conflict's nature, purpose and results. This book explores the reasons for that clash—and the results of it. The relationships between the U.S. military, its supporters, and its opponents during the Vietnam War were both intense and complex. Schwab shows how the ability of the military to prosecute the war was complicated by these relationships, and by a variety of nonmilitary considerations that grew from them. Chief among these was the military's relationship to a civilian state that ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Series
In War and in Peace: U.S. Civil-Military Relations
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780275984717
SKU
V9780275984717
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About Orrin Schwab
Orrin Schwab a visiting scholar at the University of Chicago, is the author of Defending the Free World: John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and the Vietnam War, 1961-1965 (Praeger, 1998). He has taught at Purdue University Calumet and the University of Chicago.
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