The U.S. government and the Vietnam War. Part IV, July 1965-January 1968 : executive and legislative roles and relationships / William Conrad Gibbons.
This fourth volume of a five-part policy history of the U.S. government and the Vietnam War covers the core period of U.S. involvement, from July 1965, when the decision was made to send large-scale U.S. forces, to the beginning of 1968, just before the Tet offensive and the decision to seek a negot...
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- The idiom of power
- Formulating U.S. strategy and plans
- Trying to find a key
- The bombing pause decision
- No end in sight
- Congressional discontent
- Whirlwind: the Buddhist protest, spring 1966
- Suppressing the Buddhist protest
- The U.S. escalates military and political action
- New emphasis on a settlement
- Stalemate
- Searching
- 1967: a year of reckoning
- The president decides to use greater force
- Westmoreland requests more troops
- Congress in a quandary
- The deepening dilemma
- South Vietnamese elections and a new diplomatic initiative
- The crumbling consensus
- Crucible
- Conclusion : the end of strategy.