Efforts to understand the impact of the Vietnam War on America
began soon after it ended, and they continue to the present day. In
"After Vietnam" four distinguished scholars focus on different
elements of the war's legacy, while one of the major architects of
the conflict, former defense secretary Robert S. McNamara,
contributes a final chapter pondering foreign policy issues of the
twenty-first century.
In the book's opening chapter, Charles E. Neu explains how the
Vietnam War changed Americans' sense of themselves: challenging
widely-held national myths, the war brought frustration,
disillusionment, and a weakening of Americans' sense of their past
and vision for the future. Brian Balogh argues that Vietnam became
such a powerful metaphor for turmoil and decline that it obscured
other forces that brought about fundamental changes in government
and society. George C. Herring examines the postwar American
military, which became nearly obsessed with preventing "another
Vietnam." Robert K. Brigham explores the effects of the war on the
Vietnamese, as aging revolutionary leaders relied on appeals to
"revolutionary heroism" to justify the communist party's monopoly
on political power. Finally, Robert S. McNamara, aware of the
magnitude of his errors and burdened by the war's destructiveness,
draws lessons from his experience with the aim of preventing wars
in the future.
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