Iraq and the Lessons of Vietnam

by Gardner, Lloyd C.

• ISBN13: 9781595581495
• ISBN10: 1595581499
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-05-01
• Publisher: New Pr

Summary

Leading scholars of Vietnam examine the links between the Vietnam War and the war in Iraq - and the obsession of US foreign policy makers with the Vietnam Syndrome. Contributors look at the unlearned lessons of Vietnam and consider how the US has again found itself in the midst of an ill-advised war without any chance of a quick victory with sweeping regime change.

Table of Contents

Parallel wars? : can "lessons of Vietnam" be applied to Iraq?	p. 17
"I'm with you" : Tony Blair and the obligations of alliance : Anglo-American relations in historical perspective	p. 45
Forlorn superpower : European reactions to the American wars in Vietnam and Iraq	p. 59
Manufacturing the threat to justify aggressive war in Vietnam and Iraq	p. 88
Wise guys, rough business : Iraq and the Tonkin Gulf	p. 106
Gulliver at bay : the paradox of the imperial presidency	p. 124
Class wars	p. 136
The female shape of the all-volunteer force	p. 150
Familiar foreign policy and familiar wars : Vietnam, Iraq ... before and after	p. 162
Mr. Rumsfeld's war	p. 174
Zelig in U.S. foreign relations : the roles of China in the American post-9/11 world	p. 201
Counterinsurgency, now and forever	p. 216
Torture in the crucible of counterinsurgency	p. 230
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