Blowtorch
Subtitle: Robert Komer, Vietnam, and American Cold War strategy
By: by Frank Leith Jones
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Annapolis, Maryland
Language: eng
Number of pages: 401
ISBN-13: 9781612512280; 9781612512297
Subjects: Vietnam War, 1961-1975; National security; Intelligence officers; National Security Council (U.S.); Officials and employees; Civic action; Military policy; United States; United States. Military Assistance Command, Vietnam. Civil Operations and Rural Development Support; United States. Department of Defense; Biography; Cold War; Armed Forces; Decision making; History
Other titles: Robert Komer, Vietnam, and American Cold War strategy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-390) and index.
Table of contents: title: Toward the New Frontier; title: A man of proper ambition; title: Pragmatic new frontiersman; title: Komer's war; title: "Our India enterprise"; title: Lyndon Johnson's man; title: Pacification czar; title: A new thrust to pacification; title: In country; title: Taking off; title: The year of the monkey; title: The old fox gets fired; title: Revival and departure; title: A new transatlantic bargain; title: Pentagon policymaker; title: The sin of unilateralism; title: The wisdom of hindsight: Vietnam reassessed; title: Conclusion.