Contributor
Braestrup, Peter.
Imprint:Washington, D.C. : University Press of America, c1984.
Description160, [50] p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Note:"Proceedings of a conference held at the Smithsonian Institution, Jan. 7-8, 1983, under the auspices of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars's International Security Studies Program and the Wilson quarterly"--Verso t.p.
Note:"January 1984."
Note:Panel I. The U.S. conduct of the Vietnam War, 1964-73 : -- Misadventure revisited / Richard Betts -- Waiting for smoking guns: presidential decision-making and the Vietnam War, 1965=67 / Larry Berman -- Commentary / Douglas Blaufarb -- America and Vietnam: the failure of strategy, 1965-67 / Herbert Y. Schandler -- Commentaries by Larry Berman, Paul Miles, Edwin Simmons and Richard Hunt; discussion -- The Nixon strategy in Vietnam / George C. Herring -- Commentaries by Peter Rodman, Stanley Falk and Bui Diem; discussion -- Panel II: The North Vietnamese and the South Vietnamese : -- The other side / Douglas Pike -- Commentaries by Stanley Karnow and Alan Gropman; discussion -- Dynamics of the U.S.-South Vietnamese alliance: what went wrong / Allan E. Goodman -- Commentaries by Vincent Demma and Samuel Popkin; discussion -- Panel III: Lessons and non-lessons of the U.S. experience in Vietnam : Lessons: a soldier's view / Harry G. Summers, Jr. -- Reflections on "lessons" from Vietnam / Russell F. Weigley -- Commentary by Ernest R. May -- Vietnam: implications and impact / Robert E. Osgood -- Special papers: Reflections on the Vietnam antiwar movement and on the curious calm at the war's end / John Mueller -- Comments on the influence of television on public opinion / Lawrence W. Lichty -- Appendices: Chronology -- A summary of public opinion and the Vietnam War / John Mueller.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographies.
