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THE INFLUENCE OF THE AMERICAN MILITARY UPON UNITED STATES FOREIGN POLICY, 1965-1968.
Abstract
How convenient it would be if there were a simple answer to leave our children as to how and why the United States did not prevail in Vietnam. But the forces that put the United States ashore in Vietnam are too complex to permit a simple answer. The same holds true in trying to explain the highly unusual way in which the most powerful nation on earth went about the use of its enormous power in Southeast Asia against incredibly weaker opponents. Perhaps the easiest course is to blame the architects of the United States intervention in Vietnam as being too idealistic and failing to place the issue of the political orientation of South Vietnam in its proper place among the hierarchy of United States interests. And yet, if one looks at twentieth century United States diplomatic history, the American intervention in Vietnam can be seen to flow quite naturally from the pattern of United States response to its need to secure itself in an increasingly dangerous world.
Subject Area
Modern history|History
Recommended Citation
HAMILTON, WILLIAM ALEXANDER, "THE INFLUENCE OF THE AMERICAN MILITARY UPON UNITED STATES FOREIGN POLICY, 1965-1968." (1978). ETD collection for University of Nebraska-Lincoln. AAI7900316.
https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/dissertations/AAI7900316