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Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954-1965
Mark Moyar
Cambridge University Press
September 2006
On Sale: August 28, 2006
542 pages ISBN: 0521869110 EAN: 9780521869119 Hardcover
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Historical | Non-Fiction
Drawing on a wealth of new evidence from all sides,
Triumph Forsaken overturns most of the historical
orthodoxy on the Vietnam War. Through the analysis of
international perceptions and power, it shows that South
Vietnam was a vital interest of the United States. The
book provides many new insights into the overthrow of Ngo
Dinh Diem in 1963 and demonstrates that the coup negated
the South Vietnamese government's tremendous, and hitherto
unappreciated, military and political gains between 1954
and 1963. After Diem's assassination, President Lyndon
Johnson had at his disposal several aggressive policy
options that could have enabled South Vietnam to continue
the war without a massive US troop infusion, but he ruled
out these options because of faulty assumptions and
inadequate intelligence, making such an infusion the only
means of saving the country.
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