Jeffrey Kimball
Biographic Data
| ID | 5183289 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeffrey Kimball |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeffrey |
| FAMILY NAME | Kimball |
| SIGNATURE | KIMBALL J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Miami University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Nuclear Weapons, Coercive Diplomacy, and the Vietnam War
The Politics of War, Republican Style
Lamenting the general neglect of the intrinsic relationship between foreign policymaking and domestic politics in contemporary historiography, and acknowledging the dearth of studies of Republican party (or GOP) politics during the Vietnam War era, Andrew L. Johns of Brigham Young University examines the “central role” played by the GOP on the “political battlefields” of the home front during the American War in Indochina from 1961 to 1973. Domes…
Out of Primordial Cultural Ooze
Entrapping great powers and engulfing smaller ones, the convulsive thirty-year Vietnam War disturbed the flow of history, producing turbulent consequences and lasting legacies. Two of the most significant and persisting American political legacies of the conflict are the stab-in-the-back legend and the attendant Vietnam Syndrome critique. They surfaced in the wake of U.S. policy defeat in Vietnam and the shattering of the myth of American omnipot…
Exchange on the Nixon Administration and the Vietnam War
Dialog about a book review
Missing Links Found, Others Remain Missing
The documents reproduced in this weighty compendium address Richard M. Nixon's management of the Second Indochina War during the first eighteen months of his presidency. They focus on his evolving military and diplomatic option plans, stratagems, strategies, and operations regarding the conflict in South and North Vietnam, his secret bombing and overt invasion of Cambodia, and his covert ground and air war in Laos. In addition to the 348 reprinte…
The Nixon Doctrine
When President Richard Nixon met with reporters in Guam on July 25, 1969 to discuss the U.S. role in Asia, he did not intend his comments to be understood as constituting a new policy doctrine. After some reporters began referring to key elements of his remarks as the “Nixon Doctrine,” Nixon came to appreciate the political value of the phrase and publicly began using it himself, even though his policies toward some of the nations of Asia were in…
Fighting and Talking
Journal Article Fighting and Talking Get access Asselin Pierre, A Bitter Peace: Washington, Hanoi, and the Making of the Paris Agreement. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. xx +272 pp. Notes, apps., biblio., index, illus., and maps. $45.00 (hardcover), $18.95 (paper). Jeffrey Kimball Jeffrey Kimball Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 27, Issue 5, November 2003, P…
Nixon's Secret Nuclear Alert
During October 1969 President Nixon directed the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) to order the US high command to undertake military measures that would convey to Moscow the increased readiness of US nuclear forces but would not be 'threatening in themselves'. The JCS Readiness Test, as the exercise was officially known, was one of Nixon's more mysterious and secret decisions. This article tracks the twists and turns of Nixon's Vietnam strategy that l…
The Wrong War
Journal Article The Wrong War: Why We Lost in Vietnam. By Jeffrey Record, Defending the Free World: John E Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and the Vietnam War, 1961–1965. By Orrin Schwab, Choosing War: The Lost Chance for Peace and the Escalation of War in Vietnam. By Fredrik Logevall and Nixon's Vietnam War. By Jeffrey Kimball Get access Jacques Portes Jacques Portes University of Paris VIII, Paris, France Search for other works by this author on: Oxfo…
Nixon's Vietnam War
Nixon's Vietnam War
How Wars End
The contentious debate about how the U.S.‐Vietnam War ended is mired in partisan politics. The debate centers on two major issues: whether the antiwar movement or the diplomacy/strategy of Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger helped to end the war or prolong it. The author tries to clarify the debate by examining the events leading to the 1973 Paris cease‐fire agreement within the context of historical generalizations concerning “war termination”—co…
Alternatives to War in History
Alternatives to War in History Get access Jeffrey Kimball Jeffrey Kimball Jeffrey Kimball is Professor of History at Miami University, president of the Peace History Society, and a Norwegian Nobel Institute Senior Fellow. He has edited and contributed to To Reason Why: The Debate About the Causes of American Involvement in the Vietnam War (1990) and written widely on topics in the history of peace and war. He also teaches a course on alternatives…
To Reason Why
Signifying the Vietnam Experience
The Stab-in-the-Back Legend and the Vietnam War
Although associated with post-World War I Germany, the stab-in-the-back perspective is a common cultural response to defeat in war. An American, post-Vietnam War version maintains that the military could have won the war but for the activities of Democratic presidents, Congress, civilian strategists, the press, and antiwar protesters. The roots of the legend lie in arch-conservative assumptions, partisanship, wartime right-wing criticism of Lyndo…
The Causes of War and the Teaching of Peace History
Primitive War, Human Nature, and the Problem of Definition
The Nixon Doctrine
When President Richard Nixon met with reporters in Guam on July 25, 1969 to discuss the U.S. role in Asia, he did not intend his comments to be understood as constituting a new policy doctrine. After some reporters began referring to key elements of his remarks as the “Nixon Doctrine,” Nixon came to appreciate the political value of the phrase and publicly began using it himself, even though his policies toward some of the nations of Asia were in…
Nixon's Secret Nuclear Alert
During October 1969 President Nixon directed the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) to order the US high command to undertake military measures that would convey to Moscow the increased readiness of US nuclear forces but would not be 'threatening in themselves'. The JCS Readiness Test, as the exercise was officially known, was one of Nixon's more mysterious and secret decisions. This article tracks the twists and turns of Nixon's Vietnam strategy that l…
The Stab-in-the-Back Legend and the Vietnam War
Although associated with post-World War I Germany, the stab-in-the-back perspective is a common cultural response to defeat in war. An American, post-Vietnam War version maintains that the military could have won the war but for the activities of Democratic presidents, Congress, civilian strategists, the press, and antiwar protesters. The roots of the legend lie in arch-conservative assumptions, partisanship, wartime right-wing criticism of Lyndo…
Nuclear Weapons, Coercive Diplomacy, and the Vietnam War
Nixon's Vietnam War
Primitive War, Human Nature, and the Problem of Definition
Primitive War, Human Nature, and the Problem of Definition
The Causes of War and the Teaching of Peace History
The Stab-in-the-Back Legend and the Vietnam War
Although associated with post-World War I Germany, the stab-in-the-back perspective is a common cultural response to defeat in war. An American, post-Vietnam War version maintains that the military could have won the war but for the activities of Democratic presidents, Congress, civilian strategists, the press, and antiwar protesters. The roots of the legend lie in arch-conservative assumptions, partisanship, wartime right-wing criticism of Lyndo…
To Reason Why
Signifying the Vietnam Experience
Alternatives to War in History
Alternatives to War in History Get access Jeffrey Kimball Jeffrey Kimball Jeffrey Kimball is Professor of History at Miami University, president of the Peace History Society, and a Norwegian Nobel Institute Senior Fellow. He has edited and contributed to To Reason Why: The Debate About the Causes of American Involvement in the Vietnam War (1990) and written widely on topics in the history of peace and war. He also teaches a course on alternatives…
How Wars End
The contentious debate about how the U.S.‐Vietnam War ended is mired in partisan politics. The debate centers on two major issues: whether the antiwar movement or the diplomacy/strategy of Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger helped to end the war or prolong it. The author tries to clarify the debate by examining the events leading to the 1973 Paris cease‐fire agreement within the context of historical generalizations concerning “war termination”—co…
Nixon's Vietnam War
Nixon's Vietnam War
The Wrong War
Journal Article The Wrong War: Why We Lost in Vietnam. By Jeffrey Record, Defending the Free World: John E Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and the Vietnam War, 1961–1965. By Orrin Schwab, Choosing War: The Lost Chance for Peace and the Escalation of War in Vietnam. By Fredrik Logevall and Nixon's Vietnam War. By Jeffrey Kimball Get access Jacques Portes Jacques Portes University of Paris VIII, Paris, France Search for other works by this author on: Oxfo…
Fighting and Talking
Journal Article Fighting and Talking Get access Asselin Pierre, A Bitter Peace: Washington, Hanoi, and the Making of the Paris Agreement. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. xx +272 pp. Notes, apps., biblio., index, illus., and maps. $45.00 (hardcover), $18.95 (paper). Jeffrey Kimball Jeffrey Kimball Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 27, Issue 5, November 2003, P…
Nixon's Secret Nuclear Alert
During October 1969 President Nixon directed the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) to order the US high command to undertake military measures that would convey to Moscow the increased readiness of US nuclear forces but would not be 'threatening in themselves'. The JCS Readiness Test, as the exercise was officially known, was one of Nixon's more mysterious and secret decisions. This article tracks the twists and turns of Nixon's Vietnam strategy that l…
The Nixon Doctrine
When President Richard Nixon met with reporters in Guam on July 25, 1969 to discuss the U.S. role in Asia, he did not intend his comments to be understood as constituting a new policy doctrine. After some reporters began referring to key elements of his remarks as the “Nixon Doctrine,” Nixon came to appreciate the political value of the phrase and publicly began using it himself, even though his policies toward some of the nations of Asia were in…
Missing Links Found, Others Remain Missing
The documents reproduced in this weighty compendium address Richard M. Nixon's management of the Second Indochina War during the first eighteen months of his presidency. They focus on his evolving military and diplomatic option plans, stratagems, strategies, and operations regarding the conflict in South and North Vietnam, his secret bombing and overt invasion of Cambodia, and his covert ground and air war in Laos. In addition to the 348 reprinte…
Exchange on the Nixon Administration and the Vietnam War
Dialog about a book review
Out of Primordial Cultural Ooze
Entrapping great powers and engulfing smaller ones, the convulsive thirty-year Vietnam War disturbed the flow of history, producing turbulent consequences and lasting legacies. Two of the most significant and persisting American political legacies of the conflict are the stab-in-the-back legend and the attendant Vietnam Syndrome critique. They surfaced in the wake of U.S. policy defeat in Vietnam and the shattering of the myth of American omnipot…
The Politics of War, Republican Style
Lamenting the general neglect of the intrinsic relationship between foreign policymaking and domestic politics in contemporary historiography, and acknowledging the dearth of studies of Republican party (or GOP) politics during the Vietnam War era, Andrew L. Johns of Brigham Young University examines the “central role” played by the GOP on the “political battlefields” of the home front during the American War in Indochina from 1961 to 1973. Domes…
Nuclear Weapons, Coercive Diplomacy, and the Vietnam War
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