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The Perfect War (Paperback)
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The Perfect War (Paperback)
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List price R611
Loot Price R576
Discovery Miles 5 760
You Save R35 (6%)
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In this groundbreaking book, James William Gibson shatters the
misled assumptions behind both liberal and conservative
explanations for America's failure in Vietnam. Gibson shows how
American government and military officials developed a disturbingly
limited concept of war -- what he calls technowar -- in which all
efforts were focused on maximizing the enemy's body count,
regardless of the means. Consumed by a blind faith in the
technology of destruction, American leaders failed to take into
account their enemy's highly effective guerrilla tactics. Indeed,
technowar proved woefully inapplicable to the actual political and
military strategies used by the Vietnamese, and Gibson reveals how
U.S. officials consistently falsified military records to preserve
the illusion that their approach would prevail. Gibson was one of
the first historians to question the fundamental assumptions behind
American policy, and The Perfect War is a brilliant reassessment of
the war -- now republished with a new introduction by the author.
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