TY  - BOOK
AU  - Asselin,Pierre
TI  - Vietnam's American war: a history 
T2  - Cambridge studies in US foreign relations
SN  - 9781316222591 :
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Vietnamkrieg
KW  - Nordvietnam
KW  - Vietnam War, 1961-1975
KW  - Vietnam (Democratic Republic)
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Jan 2018); E-Book / Zugriff nur im DHI-Lesesaal
N2  - Communist forces in the Vietnam War lost most battles and suffered disproportionally higher casualties than the United States and its allies throughout the conflict. The ground war in South Vietnam and the air war in the North were certainly important in shaping the fates of the victors and losers, but they alone fail to explain why Hanoi bested Washington in the end. To make sense of the Vietnam War, we must look beyond the war itself. In his new work, Pierre Asselin explains the formative experiences and worldview of the men who devised communist strategies and tactics during the conflict, and analyzes their rationale and impact. Drawing on two decades of research in Vietnam's own archives, including classified policy statements and reports, Asselin expertly and straightforwardly relates the Vietnamese communist experience - and the reasons the war turned out the way it did; Introduction: why Vietnam matters -- From Dai Viet to the August Revolution -- French war, 1945-54 -- Interwar, 1954-65 -- American war, 1965-68 -- American war, 1968-73 -- Civil war, 1973-75 -- Epilogue: legacies
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316222591
ER  -