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A Better War
The Unexamined Victories and Final Tragedy of America's Last Years in Vietnam
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A Better War
The Unexamined Victories and Final Tragedy of America's Last Years in Vietnam
About this book
"A comprehensive and long-overdue examination of the immediate post–Tet offensive years [from a] first-rate historian." —
The New York Times Book Review
Neglected by scholars and journalists alike, the years of conflict in Vietnam from 1968 to 1975 offer surprises not only about how the war was fought, but about what was achieved. Drawing from thousands of hours of previously unavailable (and still classified) tape-recorded meetings between the highest levels of the American military command in Vietnam, A Better War is an insightful, factual, and superbly documented history of these final years. Through his exclusive access to authoritative materials, award-winning historian Lewis Sorley highlights the dramatic differences in conception, conduct, and—at least for a time—results between the early and later years of the war. Among his most important findings is that while the war was being lost at the peace table and in the U.S. Congress, the soldiers were winning on the ground. Meticulously researched and movingly told, A Better War sheds new light on the Vietnam War.
Neglected by scholars and journalists alike, the years of conflict in Vietnam from 1968 to 1975 offer surprises not only about how the war was fought, but about what was achieved. Drawing from thousands of hours of previously unavailable (and still classified) tape-recorded meetings between the highest levels of the American military command in Vietnam, A Better War is an insightful, factual, and superbly documented history of these final years. Through his exclusive access to authoritative materials, award-winning historian Lewis Sorley highlights the dramatic differences in conception, conduct, and—at least for a time—results between the early and later years of the war. Among his most important findings is that while the war was being lost at the peace table and in the U.S. Congress, the soldiers were winning on the ground. Meticulously researched and movingly told, A Better War sheds new light on the Vietnam War.
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A
A Shau Valley operation, 138–42
Abbott, William, 303
Abrams, Creighton W., III
on Vietnam War, 388
Abrams, Gen. Creighton W.:
anticipates Tet Offensive (1968), 104, 106
on antiwar movement, 23, 93, 114, 298
on appearance and dress codes, 300
as Army Chief of Staff, 343, 346–48
assessment of NVA in Easter Offensive, 325, 329
on body count, 22–23, 145
on Cambodian incursion, 200–1, 203–4, 206–8, 210, 214
on charts and statistics, 35–36, 195
on civilian battle support, 324
on command incompetence, 295–96
command style, 31–33
commands MACV Forward, 12, 17
concentrates B-52 strikes, 334–35
on conditions among the troops, 298–99, 309–10
on conditions for peace, 352
on conditions in Laos, 246
consults with Thieu on ARVN leadership, 265–66, 330
controls B-52s, 121–22
on Walter Cronkite, 311
death of, 369, 382–83
on declining experience levels, 288
on discipline problems, 293–94
on drug problems, 291–94, 298
on Easter Offensive, 319, 321, 331, 337
on educating the press, 224–25
on effects of budget-cutting, 125, 127–28, 176, 268
on effects of Lam Son 719, 266–67, 270
on effects of U.S. air support, 327–28
on excessive use of force, 219–21
on failures in Lam Son 719, 260
fires Komer, 63
on friendly fire, 124
on Giai, 378
on Giap, 337
on Harriman, 150–51
on importance of local forces, 59–60
on importance of logistics war in Laos, 232–33
on incompetent Vietnamese military leadership, 186–88, 276, 330–31
increases bombing sorties, 44
on inexperience of U.S. troops, 2
on intelligence, 36, 51–52, 106, 131, 142
on interdiction in Laos, 120–21, 229
on interdiction of Ho ...
Table of contents
- Title Page
- Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Prologue
- Inheritance
- New Tactics
- Third Offensive
- Intelligence
- Pacification
- Interdiction
- Tet 1969
- Drawdown
- Higher Hurdles
- Resolution 9
- Leaders
- Photos I
- Cambodia
- Victory
- Toward Laos
- Lam Son 719
- Aftermath
- Elections
- Soldiers
- Anticipation
- Easter Offensive
- Transition
- Cease-Fire
- Photos II
- Final Days
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- Glossary of Terms and Abbreviations
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author
- Connect with HMH