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Before the Quagmire
Language: en
Pages: 353
Authors: William J. Rust
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-06-29 - Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

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In the decade preceding the first U.S. combat operations in Vietnam, the Eisenhower administration sought to defeat a communist-led insurgency in neighboring La
Quagmire
Language: en
Pages: 322
Authors: David Andrew Biggs
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-03-15 - Publisher: University of Washington Press

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Winner of the 2012 George Perkins Marsh Prize for Best Book in Environmental History In the twentieth century, the Mekong Delta has emerged as one of Vietnam’
The Making of a Quagmire
Language: en
Pages: 252
Authors: David Halberstam
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008 - Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

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Pulitzer-prize winning author David Halberstam's eyewitness account provides a riveting narrative of how the United States created a major foreign policy disast
Into the Quagmire
Language: en
Pages: 285
Authors: Brian VanDeMark
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1995-05-18 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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In November of 1964, as Lyndon Johnson celebrated his landslide victory over Barry Goldwater, the government of South Vietnam lay in a shambles. Ambassador Maxw
Quagmire in Civil War
Language: en
Pages: 345
Authors: Jonah Schulhofer-Wohl
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-01-09 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Rebuts the pervasive 'folk' notion that quagmire is intrinsic to a country or civil war. Shows that quagmire is made, not found.