Vietnam in Iraq
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Vietnam in Iraq

Tactics, Lessons, Legacies and Ghosts

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Vietnam in Iraq

Tactics, Lessons, Legacies and Ghosts

About this book

More than most post-1970 conflicts involving US forces, the conflict in Iraq has been fought out against a background of frequently invoked memories from the era of the Vietnam War. The essays in this book offer a series of perspectives on connections and parallels between the Vietnam War and the 2003 invasion of, and conflict in, Iraq.

The contributors particularly examine the impact of the Vietnam analogy on the War in Iraq, assessing the military tactical lessons learned from the Vietnam War and exploring the influence and persistence of its legacy in US politics, culture and diplomacy. The volume holds up to original interrogation some commonly held assumptions about historical analogy, and several distinguished authorities on the Vietnam War era, in particular, offer their thoughts on the value and applicability of Vietnam-Iraq parallels. If most contributions point out some obvious dissimilarities between the two eras, notably the transformed post-Cold War international environment, the similarities, particularly those relating to the problems of cultural misunderstanding, are also apparent.

Vietnam in Iraq will be of great interest for all students and researchers of the Iraq War, strategic studies, international relations and American politics.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2007
Print ISBN
9780415405621
eBook ISBN
9781134135271

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contributors
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. Introduction
  7. 1 The Final Chapter?
  8. 2 The Vietnam Laugh Track
  9. 3 Unraveling the Domestic Foreign Policy Consensus
  10. 4 Iraq and Vietnam
  11. 5 ‘A National Symphony of Theft, Corruption and Bribery’
  12. 6 ‘Vietnam’, Victory Culture and Iraq
  13. 7 Europe’s Vietnam Syndrome
  14. 8 No More Vietnams
  15. 9 Vietnam and Iraq
  16. 10 Falling Dominoes
  17. 11 The Iraq and Vietnam Wars
  18. Bibliography