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Dereliction of Duty: Johnson, McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam -

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Dereliction of Duty: Johnson, McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam

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- 01 June, 1998
Harper Perennial
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Author: H. R. McMaster
ISBN: 0060929081

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Related Areas: 1963-1969, Asia - Southeast Asia, History, History - General History, Military, Military - Vietnam War, Politics and government, United States, United States - 20th Century/60s, Vietnam War, 1961-1975, Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975, American history: postwar, from c 1945 -, Asian / Middle Eastern history: postwar, from c 1945 -, Central government policies, History / General, International relations, USA, Vietnam


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For years the popular myth surrounding the Vietnam War was that the Joint Chiefs of Staff knew what it would take to win but were consistently thwarted or ignored by the politicians in power. Now H. R. McMaster shatters this and other misconceptions about the military and Vietnam in Dereliction of Duty. Himself a West Point graduate, McMaster painstakingly waded through every memo and report concerning Vietnam from every meeting of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to build a comprehensive picture of a house divided against itself: a president and his coterie of advisors obsessed with keeping Vietnam from becoming a political issue versus the Joint Chiefs themselves, mired in interservice rivalries and unable to reach any unified goals or conclusions about the country's conduct in the war.

McMaster stresses two elements in his discussion of America's failure in Vietnam: the hubris of Johnson and his advisors and the weakness of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Dereliction of Duty provides both a thorough exploration of the military's role in determining Vietnam policy and a telling portrait of the men most responsible.


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