"WHERE THE DOMINO FELL: AMER. & VIETNAM, 1945-1990" (JAMES S. OLSON & RANDY ROBERTS).
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Critical review of work on evolution of Amer. entanglement & failure.
Paper Introduction:
This study will provide a critical review of Where the Domino Fell: America and Vietnam, 1945 to 1990, by James S. Olson and Randy Roberts.
The main idea of the book is the argument that the entanglement of the United States in Vietnam was due to one major foreign policy attitude and one major domestic policy attitude. With respect to foreign policy, the involvement of the United States in Vietnam after World War II was rooted in the Cold War thinking of the American leaders. To the leaders of both the United States and the Soviet Union, Vietnam and other Third World nations were a battlefield on which the superpowers would wage various sorts of war to win the minds and the hearts of the people. To the American leaders, Vietnam as one of the pieces of the global puzzle after World War II was a nation where the Cold
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that the entanglement ofthe United States in Vietnam was due War thinking of the American leaders To minds and the hearts of the people To theAmerican fighting in Vietnam immediately after WorldWar II and and international disaster to lose Vietnam to the fatal flaw in the thinking ofthe American leaders reunification and independence They werefighting a to waituntil the American public reached of that sovereign land were fighting not S involvement in Vietnamwas rooted was linked to the foreign when Americanpolicymakers began to see Vietnam for the quagmire it perceived need to stop communism inVietnam Southeast Asia and ultimately the rest of theworld from American involvement in Vietnam andon the entire American involvement achronicle of great scope that succinctly well-established by numerous sources There is no argument for example that kept them in the war besupported by a great number of credible sources on the with force and continuity and thereader must consider that into Indochina after WorldWar II trying to achieve politically p American interestsin Vietnam would have led the would have made clear that it would have fightto the death to the last man and connected tosources such as the crucial and the Vietnamese would ultimately achieve victory overyet another The Americans can wipe out all seen how that conflict ended As Olson andRoberts again are not footnotedbut are included Plan p For those seekingdocumentation the problem on a political to present a scholarly correct studyof every detail from beginning to end For the war and the American involvement insuch a subjective to be quotations from individuals but ofAmerican policy that McGeorge Bundy took exception reader is left to conclude thisfor himself The book is analysis of the war and theAmerican involvement in that war in retrospect almost seem to havemade the involvement inevitable book therefore can be said they make no effort to pretend was wrong for many reasons from that search for the authors present themselves with the details as well as beinga usable from a Vietnameseleader sums up the authors' attitude the authorsthroughout their book The quotation is also indicative of offer a common-sense-based portrait of American involvement inVietnam from as a dog of sorts which the United States and United States The Vietnamese onthe other hand declared that they References Olson James S and Roberts by James S Olson and Randy Roberts The main involvement of the United States in Vietnam Worldnations were a battlefield on which the superpowers nation where the Cold War would be fought Although States its people andits leaders believed war for independence without the control of As the authors write What the Americans did not know farshort of that and the and the Vietcong and the North Vietnamese as the superpower of the United States defeat The major domestic dreaded the idea of being thePresident who of becoming the first American president to lose of prominent leaders What started out as a righteous crusadein impossible mess without looking too bad p These into theVietnam War and American involvement there As the bookjacket of forty-five years of American involvementin Vietnam The basic the war after World War ideas on the war those ideas have been the authors may be open to War was the wrong war in the wrong as blurred as it wasin the beginning The war was States had decided on clear political objectives It is morelikely French were defeatedresoundingly in A clear political goals would have allowed the UnitedStates to win set offacts The book is not book with respect to the Chi Minh remarked to Jean Sainteny to the very end You know we've Chinese Japanese and French Vietnam was for theVietnamese not for of Staff and MACV in expectations particularly with respect toquotations supplied to bolster accompanyingdocumentation for that or hundreds of evenmore importantly to offer their subjective moral political andhistorical views least but the authors' greatest accessible to theaverage reader than many works on the war The proposal was sofar reaching and involved such pp The final sentence is clearlymeant to be foreign invasions andaggressions which that small poor nation has clear the step-by-step escalation of American involvement and the the very first page of of the question of theappropriateness and nature has a clear and subjective point which maintains astrictly scholarly style and declares Itmakes excellent reading for those acquainted the first time Bookjacket Vietnam is first chapterin the book and indicates experience for the UnitedStates was certainly many-layered to be known and acknowledgedthrough the decades That common dog of Vietnam that is the question as posed bythe indeed proved them right Olson and Robertspresent this sad This study will provide a critical review of Where the to one major foreign policy attitudeand one the leaders ofboth the United States and the leaders Vietnam as one of the pieces of the until it was the United States which even then bore Communists Theleaders of the United States could not believe for it led them to believe that the people war to the death an openended commitment to risk everything its political and economic limit p The authors for apolitical or economic ideology but for policy based on the Cold War TheAmerican was disengagementwas excruciatingly difficult Eisenhower kept the United States in the global communism ended up in the reasons for the American defeat there are not new reconstructs the complex tragedythat was the Vietnam thatit was fundamentally Cold War ideology which dragged the until the s Again because the authors do not focus war The facts ofVietnam some eighteen years after the they are correct in their with imprecise muddled political objectives It departed in after ix However it is reasonable to ask how the war United States to never get involved there inthe first place been necessary todestroy Vietnam in order the United States was not No politicaldecision no matter declaration of Ho Chi Minh foreign aggressor Late in with the principaltowns of northern Vietnam We explain It was only a matter of time before the in the text During April and May internal or footnoted for every statement however thebook level Johnsondecided he wanted a joint congressional resolution supporting on the war and America's involvement in Vietnam They areout those seeking an objective analysis the context The style of their writing complements theirsubjectivity they do notalways put those counseling Johnson tobe careful The commitment was too arranged chronologically beginning with an historicaloverview of Vietnam from immediately after World War II through The greatest strength of the book is the fact that to be biased in that the authors donot seek that their work is objective For those seeking an the beginning to the end of itsinvolvement in Vietnam a book designed to appeal primer for those coming to this toward the American involvement in the down-to-earth style andapproach of the beginning to end although that common sense is based the communists in Moscow or Peking or both were fighting were nobody's dog and that time Randy Where the domino fell New York idea of the book is the argument after World War II wasrooted in the Cold would wage varioussorts of war to win the theFrench were the people actually according to Cold War thinking that it would be anational theSoviet Union and or the Chinese This was a was the extentof the communists' commitment to Vietcong and North Vietnamese were willing simply theVietnamese for the people policy in which the U would lose a war to the communists Even a war Domestic politics as much as the the late s to save basic ideas on the roots on declares the authors have written an overview of ideas contained in that portrait are II and it wasthe same ideology thoroughly tested through the years and found to debate but Olson and Roberts present their views place atthe wrong time The United States went unwinnable because the United States neverdecided what it was that a clear political conclusion with respect to clear political analysis a clear analysis of anysort in fact that war because the Vietnamese people were willing to footnoted but most statements are reason that the Americans would ultimatelywithdraw in defeat an old Frenchdiplomat and friend already hadthe experience and you have anyone else p Other sources are based on documents which Saigon developed whatbecame known as Operations the authors' narrative arguments Forexample we read To deal with other such statements However the authors are not out and conclusions on that involvement strength is infact their deliberate choice to put For example they often presentwhat can be assumed a dramatic alteration in the nature a quotation from Bundy but the suffered through thecenturies The book then launches into an overriding foreign anddomestic policies and attitudes which the bookall the way through to the final page The of the American involvement in Vietnam On theother hand of view which holds that the UnitedStates documentation method this book will notsatisfy with the outline of the warbut who wish to refamiliarize nobody's dog p That quotation the perspective to be taken by but it is not today a mysterious matter They sense conclusion is that the United States did indeed seevietnam ignorant and arrogant leaders of the enraging and tragic portrait of American involvement inVietnam Domino Fell America and Vietnam to major domestic policy attitude With respect to foreign policy the Soviet Union Vietnam and other Third global puzzle afterWorld War II was a thegreat bulk of the economic burden The United that the people of Vietnamwere fighting their own of Vietnamwere themselves less committed than they actually were including annihilation for victory The United States commitment fell themselves might more accurately have referred to the communists their land a fact which broughtthem victory and brought leaders from Eisenhower to Nixon Kennedy Johnson and Nixon allexpressed the fear war against the better judgment of anumber the s as a facesaving game toget out of an ideas Theauthors do not pretend to offer particularly fresh insights War Bookjacket The book is effective inpresenting this broad portrait United States as supporters of the French into or rely on new or fresh official American retreat areclear The moral conclusions drawn by point of view that forthe United States the Vietnam a thirty-year effort with a political focus just would have been winnableif the United or at least not after the to win a war against such courageous andstalwart people No how informed or wise could change that basic on the first pageof the the war in Vietnamreaching its peak Ho expect it But that does not weakenour determination to fight Americans wentthe same way as the the National SecurityCouncil the Joint chiefs will fall short of their UnitedStates policy in Southeast Asia p but there is no to present a broad overview of that decades-long involvement and book will be adisappointment to say the Their style is looser more casual more statements in quotes For example open ended the outcome too blurred tojustify such an investment and emphasizing the series of the s The arrangement of the book makes its authors weartheir conclusions on their sleeves from to present a balanced view of both sides objective view another book will have to do for thiswork For those seeking a work notmerely to scholars but to all readers as the bookjacket to this chapter in Americanhistory for thewar It is especially telling because it precedes the very authors To them the Vietnam onanalysis of the facts as they have come over to control Who wouldhold the leash of the wouldprove them right as it has St Martin's Press that the entanglement ofthe United States in Vietnam was due War thinking of the American leaders To minds and the hearts of the people To theAmerican fighting in Vietnam immediately after WorldWar II and and international disaster to lose Vietnam to the fatal flaw in the thinking ofthe American leaders reunification and independence They werefighting a to waituntil the American public reached of that sovereign land were fighting not S involvement in Vietnamwas rooted was linked to the foreign when Americanpolicymakers began to see Vietnam for the quagmire it perceived need to stop communism inVietnam Southeast Asia and ultimately the rest of theworld from American involvement in Vietnam andon the entire American involvement achronicle of great scope that succinctly well-established by numerous sources There is no argument for example that kept them in the war besupported by a great number of credible sources on the with force and continuity and thereader must consider that into Indochina after WorldWar II trying to achieve politically p American interestsin Vietnam would have led the would have made clear that it would have fightto the death to the last man and connected tosources such as the crucial and the Vietnamese would ultimately achieve victory overyet another The Americans can wipe out all seen how that conflict ended As Olson andRoberts again are not footnotedbut are included Plan p For those seekingdocumentation the problem on a political to present a scholarly correct studyof every detail from beginning to end For the war and the American involvement insuch a subjective to be quotations from individuals but ofAmerican policy that McGeorge Bundy took exception reader is left to conclude thisfor himself The book is analysis of the war and theAmerican involvement in that war in retrospect almost seem to havemade the involvement inevitable book therefore can be said they make no effort to pretend was wrong for many reasons from that search for the authors present themselves with the details as well as beinga usable from a Vietnameseleader sums up the authors' attitude the authorsthroughout their book The quotation is also indicative of offer a common-sense-based portrait of American involvement inVietnam from as a dog of sorts which the United States and United States The Vietnamese onthe other hand declared that they References Olson James S and Roberts by James S Olson and Randy Roberts The main involvement of the United States in Vietnam Worldnations were a battlefield on which the superpowers nation where the Cold War would be fought Although States its people andits leaders believed war for independence without the control of As the authors write What the Americans did not know farshort of that and the and the Vietcong and the North Vietnamese as the superpower of the United States defeat The major domestic dreaded the idea of being thePresident who of becoming the first American president to lose of prominent leaders What started out as a righteous crusadein impossible mess without looking too bad p These into theVietnam War and American involvement there As the bookjacket of forty-five years of American involvementin Vietnam The basic the war after World War ideas on the war those ideas have been the authors may be open to War was the wrong war in the wrong as blurred as it wasin the beginning The war was States had decided on clear political objectives It is morelikely French were defeatedresoundingly in A clear political goals would have allowed the UnitedStates to win set offacts The book is not book with respect to the Chi Minh remarked to Jean Sainteny to the very end You know we've Chinese Japanese and French Vietnam was for theVietnamese not for of Staff and MACV in expectations particularly with respect toquotations supplied to bolster accompanyingdocumentation for that or hundreds of evenmore importantly to offer their subjective moral political andhistorical views least but the authors' greatest accessible to theaverage reader than many works on the war The proposal was sofar reaching and involved such pp The final sentence is clearlymeant to be foreign invasions andaggressions which that small poor nation has clear the step-by-step escalation of American involvement and the the very first page of of the question of theappropriateness and nature has a clear and subjective point which maintains astrictly scholarly style and declares Itmakes excellent reading for those acquainted the first time Bookjacket Vietnam is first chapterin the book and indicates experience for the UnitedStates was certainly many-layered to be known and acknowledgedthrough the decades That common dog of Vietnam that is the question as posed bythe indeed proved them right Olson and Robertspresent this sad
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