Prelude to Tragedy
Subtitle: Vietnam, 1960-1965
Contributors: Harvey C. Neese (Editor); John O'Donnell (Editor)
Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
Published: November 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 309
ISBN-13: 9781557504913
Subjects: American history: Vietnam War; Asian history: Vietnam War; Vietnam; Military; Military History - Vietnam Conflict; Vietnam War, 1961-1975; History; History - Military / War; United States; USA; Military - Vietnam War; Asia - Southeast Asia; Vietnam (Republic); Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; 1945-1975; Foreign relations; Politics and government
Description: "Five American and three Vietnamese participants in the early days of U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia offer compelling arguments here that the failure of American policy in Vietnam was not inevitable.

The common theme of their individual essays suggests that the war in Vietnam might have had a much different - and far less tragic - outcome if only U.S. policy makers had listened to experts familiar with Asian cultures and communist revolutionary warfare tactics and pursued a coherent counterinsurgency strategy instead of militarizing and Americanizing the struggle."--BOOK JACKET.