Triumph Regained
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Triumph Regained

The Vietnam War, 1965-1968

  1. 808 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Triumph Regained

The Vietnam War, 1965-1968

About this book

Triumph Regained: The Vietnam War, 1965–1968 is the long-awaited sequel to the immensely influential Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954–1965. Like its predecessor, this book overturns the conventional wisdom using a treasure trove of new sources, many of them from the North Vietnamese side. Rejecting the standard depiction of U.S. military intervention as a hopeless folly, it shows America's war to have been a strategic necessity that could have ended victoriously had President Lyndon Johnson heeded the advice of his generals. In light of Johnson's refusal to use American ground forces beyond South Vietnam, General William Westmoreland employed the best military strategy available. Once the White House loosened the restraints on Operation Rolling Thunder, American bombing inflicted far greater damage on the North Vietnamese supply system than has been previously understood, and it nearly compelled North Vietnam to capitulate.

The book demonstrates that American military operations enabled the South Vietnamese government to recover from the massive instability that followed the assassination of President Ngo Dinh Diem. American culture sustained public support for the war through the end of 1968, giving South Vietnam realistic hopes for long-term survival. America's defense of South Vietnam averted the imminent fall of key Asian nations to Communism and sowed strife inside the Communist camp, to the long-term detriment of America's great-power rivals, China and the Soviet Union.

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Information

Year
2023
eBook ISBN
9781641772983
Topic
History
Subtopic
Vietnam War
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Preface
  7. Maps
  8. 1. Foreign Armies
  9. 2. Domino Standing
  10. 3. War of Attrition
  11. 4. One Foot Back In
  12. 5. Return of the Buddhists
  13. 6. Shutting the Lid
  14. 7. The Real Grand Marshal
  15. 8. Internal Contradictions
  16. 9. Escalation
  17. 10. Record Losses
  18. 11. Samson’s Flight
  19. 12. Tet
  20. 13. Reaction
  21. 14. Hawks and Doves
  22. 15. The Second Wave
  23. 16. The Third Wave
  24. 17. More Rope
  25. Acknowledgments
  26. List of Abbreviations
  27. Notes
  28. Index