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Or, How Not to Learn From the Past
New Press
May 2007
On Sale: May 1, 2007
336 pages
ISBN: 1595581499
EAN: 9781595581495
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction | Historical
Leading historians tease out the connections between the
Vietnam War and the Iraq War—and point to the many lessons
that went unlearned.
"All the wrong people
remember Vietnam. I think all the people who remember it
should forget it, and all the people who forgot it should
remember it.—Michael Herr, author of
Dispatches
From the launch of the "Shock and
Awe" invasion in March 2003 through President George W.
Bush's declaration of "Mission Accomplished" two months
later, the war in Iraq was meant to demonstrate definitively
that the United States had learned the lessons of Vietnam.
This new book makes clear that something closer to the
opposite is true—that U.S. foreign policy makers have
learned little from the past, even as they have been
obsessed with the "Vietnam Syndrome."
Iraq and the
Lessons of Vietnam brings together the country's leading
historians of the Vietnam experience. Examining the profound
changes that have occurred in the country and the military
since the Vietnam War, celebrated historians Marilyn B.
Young and Lloyd Gardner have assembled a distinguished group
to consider how America has again found itself in the midst
of a war in which there is no chance of a speedy victory or
a sweeping regime change.
Iraq and the Lessons of
Vietnam explores how the "Vietnam Syndrome" fits into
the contemporary debate about the purpose and exercise of
American power in the world. With contributions from some of
the most renowned analysts of American history and foreign
policy, this is an essential recovery of the forgotten and
misbegotten lessons of Vietnam. Contributors include:
Christian Appy, Andrew J. Bacevich, Alex Danchev, David
Elliott, Elizabeth L. Hillman, Gabriel Kolko, Walter
LaFeber, Gareth Porter, John Prados.
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