John Prados
Biographic Data
| ID | 1030933 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Prados |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Prados |
| SIGNATURE | PRADOS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Washington Center |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 49 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 49 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Cambridge History of the Vietnam War
In great depth, Volume II examines the escalation of the Vietnam War and its development into a violent stalemate, beginning with the overthrow of the Ngô Đình Diệm in 1963 to the aftermath of the 1968 Tết Offensive. This five-year period was, for the most part, the fulcrum of a three-decades-long struggle to determine the future of Vietnam and was marked by rival spirals of escalation generated by the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and the Unite…
Anthony Eden, Anglo-American Relations and the 1954 Indochina Crisis
Irrational leaders pose special problems for scholars. Some future historian will have to have a say. What would that be? About Donald Trump? About Boris Johnson? Until recently, the British prime minister most often placed in this category was Anthony Eden, who served as foreign minister from 1951 to 1954, then succeeded Winston Churchill in the top job when the latter stepped down in the fall of 1954. The reason for singling Eden out—as Kevin R…
Continuing the Vietnam War Debate
Some day, hopefully, there will be bookshelves groaning under the weight of tomes written to justify—or criticize—the war decisions of America’s leaders after September 11, or to argue the war on terror was or was not lost, and why. We already have that for the Vietnam war—both the French war and the American one. And where some probably hoped that history would come to its judgment and settle, that has not been the case. Instead the Vietnam War …
Our Latest Longest War: Losing Hearts and Minds in Afghanistan
One way to sense the emergence of a standard interpretation is when the literature unfolds with a wide range of observers drawing similar conclusions. This has become the case with the Afghan war, with an increasingly tall stack of weighty volumes decrying the failure of U.S. strategy. Putting aside the memoirs of generals and interested officials, the bulk of commentators until now have been journalists, members of nongovernment organizations, o…
Eisenhower and the Cold War Arms Race: “Open Skies” and the Military-Industrial Complex
Some people have all the luck. The late President Dwight D. Eisenhower was one of them. His running mate and vice president, Richard M. Nixon, ended up tarred with the Vietnam War and accused of suborning democracy with Watergate. Plenty of similar things happened on Eisenhower's watch. He almost got the country into the same Vietnam War at the time of Dien Bien Phu. He undertook to overthrow legitimate governments through covert operations of th…
Eisenhower and the Cold War Arms Race: “Open Skies” and the Military-Industrial Complex
Some people have all the luck. President Dwight D. Eisenhower was one of them. His running mate and vice president, Richard M. Nixon, was later tarnished by the Vietnam War and forced to resign because of the Watergate scandal. Plenty of things like those happened on Eisenhower's watch. He almost got the country into a war in Vietnam at the time of Dien Bien Phu in 1954. He undertook to overthrow legitimate governments with covert Central Intelli…
The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret Cold War
During the high Cold War no power was more central to global affairs than the United States. That was the day of the Eisenhower administration, and no figures were more important to President Dwight D. Eisenhower than John Foster Dulles, his secretary of state; and Allen Welsh Dulles, his director of central intelligence. The two men, brothers in fact and in mission, were central to Cold War history for nearly a decade. In The Brothers Stephen Ki…
Cold War Intelligence History
This chapter examines the role of intelligence operations in the history of the Cold War. The analysis reveals that Cold War intelligence agencies played important roles in foreign policy in the way they conditioned the perceptions of leaders and catalyzed events. One of the best examples of this is the direct influence of intelligence operations upon diplomacy in the U-2 Affair. The chapter, which suggests that intelligence activities in the Col…
Elusive Victories: The American Presidency at War
Journal Article Elusive Victories: The American Presidency at War Get access Elusive Victories: The American Presidency at War. By Andrew J. Polsky. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. viii, 445 pp. $29.95.) John Prados John Prados Washington, D.C. [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 100, Issue 2, September 2013, Pages 576–577, https://doi.org/…
The Family Jewels: The CIA, Secrecy, and Presidential Power
In December 1974, a front-page story in the New York Times revealed the explosive details of illegal domestic spying by the Central Intelligence Agency. This included political surveillance, eavesdropping, detention, and interrogation. The revelation of illegal activities over many years shocked the American public and led to investigations of the CIA by a presidential commission and committees in both houses of Congress, which found evidence of …
A Vietnam War reader: A documentary history from American and Vietnamese perspectives
Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima, 9-11, and Iraq
As is his wont, John W. Dower applies a wide-angle lens to his subjects, introducing whatever material he deems relevant to the subject at hand. When Dower focuses on his first love, Japan, the result has been magisterial, even stunning. In his latest book, the Asianist moves further afield, examining the way Japan approached World War II in comparison with how George W. Bush's United States involved itself in Near Eastern adventures after the Se…
Vietnam: The History of an Unwinnable War, 1945-1975
Harold Lloyd Goodall, Jr., A Need to Know: The Clandestine History of a CIA Family
April 01 2008 Harold Lloyd Goodall, Jr., A Need to Know: The Clandestine History of a CIA Family. John Prados John Prados Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information John Prados Online Issn: 1531-3298 Print Issn: 1520-3972 © 2008 Massachusetts Institute of Technology2008 Journal of Cold War Studies (2008) 10 (2): 152–153. https://doi.org/10.1162/jcws.2008.10.2.152 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Sh…
Francis Gary Powers with Curt Gentry, Operation Overflight: A Memoir of the U-2 Incident
July 01 2007 Francis Gary Powers with Curt Gentry, Operation Overflight: A Memoir of the U-2 Incident John Prados John Prados Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information John Prados Online Issn: 1531-3298 Print Issn: 1520-3972 © 2007 Massachusetts Institute of Technology2007 Journal of Cold War Studies (2007) 9 (3): 175–176. https://doi.org/10.1162/jcws.2007.9.3.175 Cite Icon Cite Permissions …
The Last Valley: Dien Bien Phu and the French Defeat in Vietnam
No End to War: Terrorism in the Twenty-First Century
Journal Article No End to War: Terrorism in the Twenty-First Century Get access No End to War: Terrorism in the Twenty-First Century by Walter Laqueur. New York, Continuum, 2003. 288 pp. $24.95. John Prados John Prados National Security Archive Washington, DC Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 119, Issue 1, Spring 2004, Pages 184–185, https://doi.org/10.2307/20202313 Publis…
Looking for the Real Lyndon
Journal Article Looking for the Real Lyndon Get access Beschloss Michael, ed., Reaching for Glory: Lyndon Johnson’s Secret White House Tapes. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001. 480 pp. $30.00 (cloth); $15.00 (paper). John Prados John Prados Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 27, Issue 5, November 2003, Pages 751–756, https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-7709.00391 Published: 16 October 2003
American Secret Intelligence: A Review Essay
Two Agents, Two Paths: How the CIA Became a Vital Operation
America Confronts Terrorism: Understanding the Danger and How to Think about It
Notes on the CIA's Secret War in Afghanistan
The new war against terrorism has taken up where the United States left off some years ago in its campaign against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan. Events of the initial campaign of the terror war, which concluded with the fall of the Tora Bora cave complex in December 2001, as well as developments that can be anticipated in the larger conflict, can be illuminated by reference to the Central Intelligence Agency's (cia) efforts in the anti-Soviet …
FDR, the War President, 1940-1943: A History
The Scar That Binds: American Culture and the Vietnam War
Combat Operations: Stemming the Tide, May 1965 to October 1966
No End to War: Terrorism in the Twenty-First Century
Journal Article No End to War: Terrorism in the Twenty-First Century Get access No End to War: Terrorism in the Twenty-First Century by Walter Laqueur. New York, Continuum, 2003. 288 pp. $24.95. John Prados John Prados National Security Archive Washington, DC Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 119, Issue 1, Spring 2004, Pages 184–185, https://doi.org/10.2307/20202313 Publis…
The Last Valley: Dien Bien Phu and the French Defeat in Vietnam
Notes on the CIA's Secret War in Afghanistan
The new war against terrorism has taken up where the United States left off some years ago in its campaign against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan. Events of the initial campaign of the terror war, which concluded with the fall of the Tora Bora cave complex in December 2001, as well as developments that can be anticipated in the larger conflict, can be illuminated by reference to the Central Intelligence Agency's (cia) efforts in the anti-Soviet …
The Sky Would Fall: Operation Vulture, the U.S. Bombing Mission, Indochina 1954
Dreadnought: Britain, Germany, and the Coming of the Great War
Inside the Cold War: Loy Henderson and the Rise of the American Empire, 1918-1961
Journal Article Inside the Cold War: Loy Henderson and the Rise of the American Empire, 1918–1961. By H. W. Brands, Counsel to the President: A Memoir. By Clark Clifford with Richard Holbrooke and Keepers of the Keys: A History of the National Security Council from Truman to Bush. By John Prados Get access Inside the Cold War: Loy Henderson and the Rise of the American Empire, 1918-1961. By Brands H. W.. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. …
Valley of Decision: The Siege of Khe Sanh
The Warning That Left Something to Chance: Intelligence at Tet
T h e W a r n i n g T h a t Left S o m e t h i n g to C h a n c e : I n t e l l i g e n c e a t Tet John Prados Tacoma Park, Maryland Two meanings of the word "chance" are relevant to the present p u r - pose. One is chance as a r a n d o m f a c t o r - f o r this subject the accidental conjunction of chance occurrences that could have
The Invasion of Japan: Alternative to the Bomb
Beyond the Forked Tongue
Any diplomatic historian not already aware of the fact should note that Robert S. McNamara, the man who swore he would never put his life on paper, has signed a contract to write a memoir. The seventy-seven-year-old former secretary of defense for Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, as well as president in his own right of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the Ford Motor Company, told a reporter for the W…
Trial by Fire: The 1972 Easter Offensive, America's Last Vietnam Battle
The Hidden History of the Vietnam War
This carful examination of key strategies, events, and personalities in the conflict sheds fresh light on the high points of the Vietnam experience and punctures the enduring mythologies of the war
Hitler's Japanese Confidant: General Oshima Hiroshi and Magic Intelligence 1941-1945
Combined Fleet Decoded: The Secret History of American Intelligence and the Japanese Navy in World War II
Written in the style of a thriller but solidly based on an array of sources, this study reinterprets the entire sea campaign in the Pacific, using intelligence as the missing key to the Allied success. It examines every aspect of the secret war of intelligence -- from radio dispatches and espionage to vital information from prisoners and document translation -- showing how U.S. intelligence outsmarted Japan nearly every step of the way. The resul…
Secret Army, Secret War: Washington's Tragic Spy Operation in North Vietnam
Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb
Journal Article Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb. By Richard Rhodes. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995. 731pp. $32.50, ISBN 0-684-80400-X.) Get access John Prados John Prados Washington, D.C. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 1, June 1996, Page 272, https://doi.org/10.2307/2945597 Published: 01 June 1996
The Hidden History of the Vietnam War
Journal Article The Hidden History of the Vietnam War. By John Prados. (Chicago: Dee, 1995. xvi, 329 pp. $27.50, ISBN 1-56663-079-7.) Get access Christian Appy Christian Appy Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 4, March 1996, Pages 1652–1653, https://doi.org/10.2307/2945442 Published: 01 March 1996
Vietnam: The Early Decisions
Haunting questions remain about our involvement in Vietnam. Perhaps the most persistent of these is whether President Kennedy would have ended American involvement in Vietnam if he had lived. For many Americans, Oliver Stone's film JFK left no doubt that before his assassination Kennedy had determined to quit Vietnam. Yet the historical record offers a more complex answer. In this fresh look at the archival evidence, noted scholars take up the ch…
Victory at Any Cost: The Genius of Viet Nam's Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap
Intentions and Capabilities: Estimates on Soviet Strategic Forces, 1950-1983
Journal Article Intentions and Capabilities: Estimates on Soviet Strategic Forces, 1950–1985. Ed. by Donald P. Steury. (Washington: Center for the Study of Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency, 1996. xxiv, 504 pp. Paper.) Get access John Prados John Prados Washington, D.C. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 4, March 1997, Pages 1484–1485, https://doi.org/10.2…
Kaigun: Strategy, Tactics, and Technology in the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1887-1941
Battlefield: Vietnam
Strategy in Vietnam: The Marines and Revolutionary Warfare in I Corps, 1965-1972
Maps and Tables Preface Acronyms Going Ashore Paper War: Entrenching the Frictions Instability, Insurgency and Intervention: Background to a War In Search of Balance: The Early Years, 1965-1966 The War of Attrition in the Years of Decision, 1967-1968 The Measure of Success in the Years of Retreat, 1969-1972 Conclusion: A Harvest of Contradictions Bibliography Index
The Blood Road: The Ho Chi Minh Trail and the Vietnam War
U.S. Marines in Vietnam: The Defining Year, 1968
Phoenix and the Birds of Prey: The CIA's Secret Campaign to Destroy the Viet Cong
Journal Article Phoenix and the Birds of Prey: The CIA's Secret Campaign to Destroy the Viet Cong. By Mark Moyar. (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1997. xx, 416 pp. $29.95, ISBN 1-55750-593-4.) Get access John Prados John Prados Washington, D.C. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 4, March 1999, Pages 1675–1676, https://doi.org/10.2307/2568407 Published: 01 March…
"Origins of the Pacific War and the Importance of "Magic
The Scar That Binds: American Culture and the Vietnam War
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