Title Lessons in disaster : McGeorge Bundy and the path to war in Vietnam / Gordon M. Goldstein

Edition First edition Published New York : Times Books/Henry Holt and Co., 2008

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Description xiii, 300 pages ; 25 cm Contents The Kennedy and Johnson Administrations, 1961-66 -- Introduction. Legend of the Establishment -- Lesson 1. Counselors Advise but Presidents Decide -- Lesson 2. Never Trust the Bureaucracy to Get It Right -- Lesson 3. Politics Is the Enemy of Strategy -- Lesson 4. Conviction Without Rigor Is a Strategy for Disaster -- Lesson 5. Never Deploy Military Means in Pursuit of Indeterminate Ends -- Lesson 6. Intervention Is a Presidential Choice, Not an Inevitability Summary Drawing on prodigious research as well as the interviews and analysis he has conducted with former National Security Adviser McGeorge Bundy, Goldstein offers this revelatory look at the decisions that led to the U.S. involvement in Vietnam Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [249]-284) and index Subject Bundy, McGeorge. Bundy, McGeorge -- Political and social views. National Security Council (U.S.) -- History -- 20th century. Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Causes. Political consultants -- United States -- Biography. Presidents -- United States -- Staff -- Biography. National security -- United States -- History -- 20th century. SUBJECT United States -- Foreign relations -- Vietnam. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100031 Vietnam -- Foreign relations -- United States. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008113221 United States -- Foreign relations -- 1961-1963 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140100 -- Decision making. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005493 United States -- Foreign relations -- 1963-1969 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140101 -- Decision making. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005493 Genre/Form Biographies. LC no. 2008033291 ISBN 9780805079715 0805079718

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