Strategy in the Vietnam War: Western Concepts, Eastern Conflict and the Roots of Failure.

Weland, James

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ERIC Number: EJ411126

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1990

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Strategy in the Vietnam War: Western Concepts, Eastern Conflict and the Roots of Failure.

Weland, James

New England Journal of History, v47 n1 p8-22 Spr 1990

Critiques U.S. military assumptions concerning the war in Vietnam. Discusses the North Vietnamese strategic approach to gaining control of South Vietnam. Traces the history of the Vietnam War, analyzing specific U.S. military operations in Vietnam and reasons for their failure. Contends that U.S. strategic ethnocentrism lead to defeat in Vietnam. (RW)

Descriptors: Armed Forces, Ethnocentrism, History Instruction, Military Personnel, Military Science, United States History, Vietnam War, Vietnamese People, War

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Information Analyses

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Language: English

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