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The Perfect War: Technowar in Vietnam (Military History Series)

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  • ISBN-13: 9780871137999
  • ISBN: 0871137992
  • Publication Date: 2000
  • Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press

AUTHOR

James William Gibson

SUMMARY

In this groundbreaking book, James William Gibson shatters the misled assumptions behind both liberal and conservative explanations for America's failure in Vietnam. Gibson shows how American government and military officials developed a disturbingly limited concept of war -- what he calls "technowar" -- in which all efforts were focused on maximizing the enemy's body count, regardless of the means. Consumed by a blind faith in the technology of destruction, American leaders failed to take into account their enemy's highly effective guerrilla tactics. Indeed, technowar proved woefully inapplicable to the actual political and military strategies used by the Vietnamese, and Gibson reveals how U.S. officials consistently falsified military records to preserve the illusion that their approach would prevail. Gibson was one of the first historians to question the fundamental assumptions behind American policy, and The Perfect War is a brilliant reassessment of the war -- now republished with a new introduction by the author.James William Gibson is the author of 'The Perfect War: Technowar in Vietnam (Military History Series)', published 2000 under ISBN 9780871137999 and ISBN 0871137992.

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