Triumph Forsaken
The Vietnam War, 1954–1965
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19915546 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mark Moyar (0000-0002-0403-0472, Marine Corps University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Publication date | 2006-08-28 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Triumph Forsaken (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/cbo9780511511646 |
| OpenAlex | W4252219742 |
| ISBN | 9780511511646 |
| Open Library | OL22739550M |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 19 |
Drawing on a wealth of new evidence from all sides, Triumph Forsaken, first published in 2007, 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 insights into the overthrow of South Vietnamese President 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
Archaeology · Development economics · Economic history · Economics · Government (linguistics) · Orthodoxy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Sociology · Vietnam War · Vietnamese · History · Law · Philosophy · Public Administration · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies · 1961-1975 · Vietnam · Vietnam war
‘I Made Mistakes’
Rogue Diplomats
The Strategic Hamlet Program in South Vietnam (1961–1965)
The Battle of Ap Bac and the Wicked Problems of the Vietnam War
The Vietnam Syndrome’ and the end of the post-‘Sixties’ era
Management is the gate’ – but to where? Rethinking Robert McNamara’s ‘career lessons’
Lost crusader? Chester L. Cooper and the Vietnam War, 1963–68
For Faith and Nation
The harsh face of the empire by invitation
The Rhetoric of Revisionism
‘Killing is our business and business is good’
‘Rethinking the Vietnam War’ by John Dumbrell
Military History and Fourth Generation Warfare
If You’ll Be My Bodyguard
A Realist Foreign Policy for the United States
What’s Empire Got to Do With It? The Derivation of America’s Foreign Policy
Beyond Cues and Political Elites
The Islamic State and the Return of Revolutionary Warfare
Religious Revival and the Politics of Nation Building
| Citations per year | 1.12 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2009 - 2026 (18) |
| Highly cited | No |