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Provides a comprehensive overview of the major theories about the causes of American involvement in Southeast Asia from 1945 to 1975. This book presents the often conflicting arguments advanced by national leaders, strategists, historians, social scientists, journalists, and activists, showing how the US became involved in the quagmire of Vietnam.

This book is about the past and continuing debate over the causes of United States involvement in the Vietnam War. It brings together readings that best exemplify the widely varying answers that historians, political scientists, social scientists, policymakers, journalists, and novelists have given to the essential question of American involvement: why did the U.S. intervene diplomatically and militarily in Vietnam between 1945 and 1975?" --fr...

In their initial effort to end the Vietnam War, Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger attempted to lever concessions from Hanoi at the negotiating table with military force and coercive diplomacy, threatening excessive force, which included the spectre of nuclear force.Burr and Kimball draw on extensive research in participant interviews and declassified documents to offer a history that holds important lessons for the present and future about the...

Based on extensive interviews with principal players and original research in Vietnam, this book goes behind the scenes in Washington and into the minds of America's leaders to provide the most complete analysis of Nixon's and Kissinger's complex and tortuous strategy and diplomacy. Winner of the Robert H.

How Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger pursued their public vow to end the Vietnam War and win the peace has long been entangled in bitter controversy and obscured by political spin. Recent declassifications of archival documents, on both sides of the former Iron and Bamboo Curtains, have at last made it possible to uncover the truth behind Nixon's and Kissinger's management of the war and to better understand the policies and strategies of the...