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Author : Chalmers Johnson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520025189
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (251 download)
Download or read book Autopsy on People's War written by Chalmers Johnson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1973 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Chalmers Johnson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780783747538
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (475 download)
Download or read book Autopsy on People's War written by Chalmers Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Timothy J. Lomperis
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807863041
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)
Download or read book From People’s War to People’s Rule written by Timothy J. Lomperis and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2000-11-09 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Timothy Lomperis persuasively argues the ironic point that the lessons of American involvement in Vietnam are not to be found in any analysis of the war by itself. Rather, he proposes a comparison of the Vietnam experience with seven other cases of Western intervention in communist insurgencies during the Cold War era: China, Indochina, Greece, the Philippines, Malaya, Cambodia, and Laos. Lomperis maintains that popular insurgencies are manifestations of crises in political legitimacy, which occur as a result of the societal stresses caused by modernization. Therefore, he argues, any intervention in a 'people's war' will succeed or fail depending on how it affects this crisis. The unifying theme in the cases Lomperis discusses is the power of land reform and electoral democracy to cement political legitimacy and therefore deflect revolutionary movements. Applying this theory to the ongoing Sendero Luminoso insurgency in Peru, Lomperis makes a qualified prediction of that conflict's outcome. He concludes that a global trend toward democratization has produced a new era of 'people's rule.'
Author : John A. Parrish
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1429941049
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Autopsy of War written by John A. Parrish and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the outside, John Parrish is a highly successful doctor, having risen to the top of his field as department head at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital. Inside, however, he was so tortured by the memories of his tour of duty as a marine battlefield doctor in Vietnam that he was unable to live a normal life. In Autopsy of War, the author delivers an unflinching narrative chronicling his four-decade battle with the unseen enemy in his own mind as he struggled with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Parrish examines his Southern Baptist childhood and the profound influence of his father, a fire and brimstone preacher turned Navy chaplain, while offering a candid assessment of the "God and Country" ethos that leads young men to rush wide-eyed into war. He describes the unimaginable carnage and acts of cruelty he witnessed in Vietnam, experiences that shattered his world view leaving him to retreat from his family upon his return stateside. Living virtually homeless at times, he visited veteran shelters and relived the horrors of war in a series of harrowing flashbacks as he dealt with suicidal thoughts. The author writes honestly and probingly of his episodes of infidelity and battles with sex addiction. Readers follow his steady journey toward recovery and his professional contributions in the field of medicine and technology, as well as a joint program with the Boston Red Sox and Massachusetts General Hospital to aid returning veterans. Perhaps most poignantly, Parrish speaks of his quest to discover the identity of one particular solider in Vietnam he could not save—and whose memory has haunted him ever since. Autopsy of War is a soul searching memoir that is both an intensely personal narrative and a universally relevant trip through the world of war and recovery.
Author : William C. Haponski
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504059123
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Autopsy of an Unwinnable War: Vietnam written by William C. Haponski and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A military studies professor and former combatant “rationally dissects the strategies and mindsets on both sides” of this thirty-year conflict (New York Journal of Books). Since the fall of Saigon in 1975, there have been much discussion of why (and whether) America lost the war in Vietnam. The common belief is that the war was lost not on the battlefield but in Washington, DC. The stark facts, though, are that the Vietnam War was lost before the first American shot was fired. In fact, it was lost before the first French Expeditionary Corps shot, almost two decades earlier, and was finally lost when the South Vietnamese fought partly, then entirely, on their own. Offering an informed narrative of the entire thirty-year war, this book seeks to explain why. Written by a combatant in six large battles and many smaller firefights who was also a leader with a full range of pacification duties, a commander who lost forty-three wonderful young men, Autopsy of an Unwinnable War is the result of a quest for answers by one who, after decades of wondering what it was all about, turned to a years-long search of French, American, and Vietnamese sources. This is a story lived and revealed mainly by the people inside Vietnam who were directly involved in the war, from leaders in high positions down to the jungle boots and sandals level of the fighters—and among the Vietnamese who were living it. Because of what was happening inside Vietnam itself, no matter what policies and directives came out of Paris or Washington, or the influences in Moscow or Beijing, it is about a Vietnamese idea that would eventually triumph over bullets. Includes photographs
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Air University Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Harry G. Summers
Publisher : U.S. Government Printing Office
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book On Strategy written by Harry G. Summers and published by U.S. Government Printing Office. This book was released on 1981 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Harry G Summers
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486121550
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)
Download or read book American Strategy in Vietnam written by Harry G Summers and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-04-19 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A politico-military assessment of the Vietnam War analyzing the U.S. Army's strategic and tactical ideologies. Particularly relevant today, it stresses the futility of any military action without the full support of the people.
Author : Louis Peake
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135906807
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)
Download or read book The United States and the Vietnam War, 1954-1975 written by Louis Peake and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-11-13 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States in the Vietnam War, 1954-1975 is an invaluable reference guide to the costly and controversial war the U.S. waged in Vietnam, over the course of five presidential administrations. Focusing not only on the conflict in Southeast Asia, but also on the tumult the war inspired on the domestic front, Louis Peake provides an authoritative guide to the wide range of media available on the U.S. involvement in Vietnam. From collections of art work and poetry about the soldiering experience, to journalistic accounts of battles, and military training films, the entries consistently provide clear and concise descriptions, allowing the reader to easily identify the value of any particular resource. With revised and updated annotations, and over 150 new entries, this second edition of The United States in the Vietnam War, 1954-1975 is an invaluable reference tool for researchers and students of the Vietnam War. Routledge Research Guides to American Military Studies provide concise, annotated bibliographies to the major areas and events in American military history. With the inclusion of brief critical annotations after each entry, the student and researcher can easily assess the utility of each bibliographic source and evaluate the abundance of resources available with ease and efficiency. Comprehensive, concise, and current—Routledge Research Guides to American Military Studies are an essential research tool for any historian.
Author : Harry G. Summers
Publisher : Presidio Press
ISBN 13 : 0891415637
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (914 download)
Download or read book On Strategy written by Harry G. Summers and published by Presidio Press. This book was released on 1995-06-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Summer's inspired analysis of America's war in Vietnam answers the most pressing questions remaining from that terrible conflict more than a decade before Robert McNamara's painful admissions.
Author : Suzanne Pepper
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0742573656
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (425 download)
Download or read book Civil War in China written by Suzanne Pepper and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 1999-07-22 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many books have tried to analyze the reasons for the Chinese communist success in China's 1945_1949 civil war, but Suzanne Pepper's seminal work was the first and remains the only comprehensive analysis of how the ruling Nationalists lost that war_not just militarily, but by alienating the civilian population through corruption and incompetence. Now available in a new edition, this authoritative investigation of Kuomintang failure and communist success explores the new research and archival resources available for assessing this pivotal period in contemporary Chinese history. Even more relevant today given the contemporary debates in Hong Kong and Taiwan over the terms of reunification with a communist-led national government in Beijing, this book is essential reading for anyone seeking a nuanced understanding of twentieth-century Chinese politics.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)
Download or read book Problems of Communism written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anthony James Joes
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 081313806X
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book Resisting Rebellion written by Anthony James Joes and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2006-08-18 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Resisting Rebellion, Anthony James Joes's discussion of insurgencies ranges across five continents and spans more than two centuries. Analyzing examples from North and South America, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, he identifies recurrent patterns and offers useful lessons for future policymakers. Insurgencies arise from many sources of discontent, including foreign occupation, fraudulent elections, and religious persecution, but they also stem from ethnic hostilities, the aspirations of would-be elites, and traditions of political violence. Because insurgency is as much a political phenomenon as a military one, effective counterinsurgency requires a thorough understanding of the insurgents' motives and sources of support. Clear political aims must guide military action if a counterinsurgency is to be successful and establish a lasting reconciliation within a deeply fragmented society.
Author : Thomas A. Marks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Maoist People's War in Post-Vietnam Asia written by Thomas A. Marks and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anthony James Joes
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813129729
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book Victorious Insurgencies written by Anthony James Joes and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2010-11-19 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Insurgencies, especially in the form of guerrilla warfare, continue to erupt across many parts of the globe. Most of these rebellions fail, but Four Rebellions that Shaped Our World analyzes four twentieth-century conflicts in which the success of the insurgents permanently altered the global political arena: the Maoists in China against Chiang Kai-shek and the Japanese in the 1930s and 1940s; the Viet Minh in French Indochina from 1945 to 1954; Castro's followers against Batista in Cuba from 1956 to 1959; and the mujahideen in Soviet Afghanistan from 1980 to 1989. Anthony James Joes illuminates patterns of failed counterinsurgencies that include serious but avoidable political and military blunders and makes clear the critical and often decisive influence of the international setting. Offering provocative insights and timeless lessons applicable to contemporary conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, this authoritative and comprehensive book will be of great interest to policy-makers and concerned citizens alike.
Author : James Ciment
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317471865
Total Pages : 1334 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Conflicts Since World War II written by James Ciment and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-27 with total page 1334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thoroughly revised to include 25 conflicts not covered in the previous edition, as well as expanded and updated information on previous coverage, this illustrated reference presents descriptions and analyses of more than 170 significant post-World War II conflicts around the globe. Organized by region for ease of access, "Encyclopedia of Conflicts Since World War II, Second Edition" provides clear, in-depth explanations of events not covered in such detail in any other reference source. Including more than 180 detailed maps and 150 photos, the set highlights the conflicts that dominate today's headlines and the events that changed the course of late twentieth-century history.
Author : Anthea Jeffery
Publisher : Jonathan Ball Publishers
ISBN 13 : 186842636X
Total Pages : 1283 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (684 download)
Download or read book People's War written by Anthea Jeffery and published by Jonathan Ball Publishers. This book was released on 2014-06-09 with total page 1283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty years have passed since South Africans were being shot or hacked or burned to death in political conflict; and the memory of the trauma has faded. Some 20 500 people were nevertheless killed between 1984 and 1994. The conventional wisdom is that they died at the hands of a state-backed Third Force, but the more accurate explanation is that they died as a result of the people's war the ANC unleashed. As the people's war accelerated from September 1984, intimidation and political killings rapidly accelerated. At the same time, a remarkably effective propaganda campaign put the blame for violence on the National Party government and its alleged Inkatha surrogate. Sympathy for the ANC soared, while its rivals suffered crippling losses in credibility and support. By 1993 the ANC was able to dominate the negotiating process, as well as to control the (undefeated) South African police and army and bend them to its will. By mid-1994 it had trounced its rivals and taken over government. People's War shows the extraordinary success of this war in giving the ANC a virtual monopoly on power. It also shows, in part at least, the great cost at which this was achieved. Apart from the killings, the terror, and the destruction that marked the period from 1984 to 1994, the people's war set in motion forces that cannot easily be reversed. For violence cannot be turned off 'like a tap', as the ANC suggested, and neither can anarchy easily be converted into order. Anthea Jeffery holds law degrees from the University of the Witwatersrand and from Cambridge, and a doctorate in human rights law from the University of London. Her previous books include The Natal Story: Sixteen years of conflict and The Truth about the Truth Commission. Both books have been acclaimed for their meticulous and objective approach, and for breaking new ground on important and contentious issues.
