This book considers the Vietnam war in light of U.S. foreign policy
in Vietnam, concluding that the war was a direct result of failed
state-building efforts. This U.S. nation building project began in
the mid-1950s with the ambitious goal of creating a new
independent, democratic, modern state below the 17th parallel. No
one involved imagined this effort would lead to a major and
devastating war in less than a decade. Carter analyzes how the
United States ended up fighting a large-scale war that wrecked the
countryside, generated a flood of refugees, and brought about
catastrophic economic distortions, results which actually further
undermined the larger U.S. goal of building a viable state. Carter
argues that, well before the Tet Offensive shocked the viewing
public in late January, 1968, the campaign in southern Vietnam had
completely failed and furthermore, the program contained the seeds
of its own failure from the outset.
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