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Iraq and the Lessons of Vietnam
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Description for Iraq and the Lessons of Vietnam
Hardcover. Editor(s): Young, Marilyn B.; Gardner, Lloyd C. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBQ; 1FMV; 1KBB; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 386 x 32. Weight in Grams: 672.
Leading scholars of Vietnam examine the links between the Vietnam War and the war in Iraq - and the obsession of US foreign policy makers with the Vietnam Syndrome. Contributors look at the unlearned lessons of Vietnam and consider how the US has again found itself in the midst of an ill-advised war without any chance of a quick victory with sweeping regime change.
Leading scholars of Vietnam examine the links between the Vietnam War and the war in Iraq - and the obsession of US foreign policy makers with the Vietnam Syndrome. Contributors look at the unlearned lessons of Vietnam and consider how the US has again found itself in the midst of an ill-advised war without any chance of a quick victory with sweeping regime change.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
The New Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781595581495
SKU
V9781595581495
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99-15
About Paperback
Lloyd C. Gardner is professor emeritus of history at Rutgers University. He is the author or editor of more than a dozen books, including The Long Road to Baghdad, Three Kings, The Road to Tahrir Square, and Killing Machine, and a co-editor, with Marilyn B. Young, of The New American Empire and Iraq and the Lessons of Vietnam, all ... Read more
Reviews for Iraq and the Lessons of Vietnam
"Iraq is not Vietnam, the makers of war tell us, hoping we will forget. The writers in this volume insist that we remember, and in these thoughtful, sobering essays they explain why. It is history at its best, meaning, at its most useful." —Howard Zinn, author of Vietnam: The Logic of Withdrawal and A People’s History of the United States ... Read more