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The Vietnam War Files - Uncovering the Secret History of Nixon-Era Strategy (Hardcover, New)
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The Vietnam War Files - Uncovering the Secret History of Nixon-Era Strategy (Hardcover, New)
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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
Vietnamese, Soviets, and Chinese. Drawing from this treasure trove
of formerly secret files, Jeffrey Kimball has excerpted more than
140 print documents and taped White House conversations bearing on
Nixon-era strategy. Most of these have never before been published
and many provide smoking-gun evidence on such long-standing
controversies as the "madman theory" and the "decent-interval"
option. They reveal that by 1970 Nixon's and Kissinger's madman and
detente strategies had fallen far short of frightening the North
Vietnamese into making concessions. By 1971, as Kissinger notes in
one Key document, the administration had decided to withdraw the
remaining U.S. combat troops while creating "a healthy interval for
South Vietnam's fate to unfold." The new evidence uncovers a number
of behind-the-scenes ploys--such as Nixon's secret nuclear alert of
October 1969--and sheds more light on Nixon's goals in Vietnam and
his and Kissinger's strategies of Vietnamization, the "China card,"
and "triangular diplomacy." The excerpted documents also reveal
significant new information about the purposes of the LINEBACKER
bombings, Nixon's manipulation of the POW issue, and the conduct of
the secret negotiations in Paris--as well as other key topics,
events, andissues. All of these are effectively framed by Kimball,
whose introductions to each document provide insightful historical
context. Building on the ground-breaking arguments of his earlier
prize-winning book, "Nixon's Vietnam War, Kimball also offers
readers a concise narrative of the evolution of Nixon-era strategy
and a critical assessment of historical myths about the war. The
story that emerges from both the documents and Kimball's contextual
narratives directly contradicts the Nixon-Kissinger version of
events. In fact, they did "not pursue a consistent strategy from
beginning to end and did "not win a peace with honor.
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