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'I Made Mistakes': Robert McNamara's Vietnam War Policy, 1960-1968
Contributor(s): Basha I. Novosejt, Aurélie (Author)

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ISBN: 1108415539     ISBN-13: 9781108415538
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: March 2019
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BISAC Categories:
- History | United States - General
- History | Asia - Southeast Asia
Dewey: 959.704
LCCN: 2018045076
Series: Cambridge Studies in Us Foreign Relations
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 9.8" W x 9.3" L (1.40 lbs) 338 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Southeast Asian
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Price on Product
 
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Publisher Description:
Speaking to an advisor in 1966 about America's escalation of forces in Vietnam, Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara confessed: 'We've made mistakes in Vietnam ... I've made mistakes. But the mistakes I made are not the ones they say I made'. In 'I Made Mistakes', Aur lie Basha i Novosejt provides a fresh and controversial examination of Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara's decisions during the Vietnam War. Although McNamara is remembered as the architect of the Vietnam War, Novosejt draws on new sources - including the diaries of his advisor and confidant John T. McNaughton - to reveal a man who resisted the war more than most. As Secretary of Defense, he did not want the costs of the war associated with a new international commitment in Vietnam, but he sacrificed these misgivings to instead become the public face of the war out of a sense of loyalty to the President.

Contributor Bio(s): Basha I. Novosejt, Aurelie: - Aurélie Basha i Novosejt is a Lecturer in American History at the University of Kent, Canterbury.
 
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