"Failure and Deception: US Nation-Building in South Vietnam"
Title: "Failure and Deception: US Nation-Building in South Vietnam"
Category: /History/North American History
Details: Words: 2546 | Pages: 9 (approximately 235 words/page)
"Failure and Deception: US Nation-Building in South Vietnam"
Category: /History/North American History
Details: Words: 2546 | Pages: 9 (approximately 235 words/page)
The story of US intervention in South Vietnam's internal affairs is a story of failure after failure to establish a viable South Vietnamese state. Seeking to control perceived communist expansion and to destroy the eventual communist insurgency in South Vietnam, the US attempted to create a political alternative to the popular communist regime in the North. In doing so, the US was fighting an uphill battle, a battle it was neither able nor equipped to …showed first 75 words of 2546 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 2546 total…of State Airgram, 7 March 1968. "Rumors of American Complicity in the Viet Cong Tet Offensive-Vietnamese Views of How the Wily American Mind Works." Saigon Embassy Files, Box 9, Gerald R. Ford Library.
Karnow, Stanley. Vietnam: A History. New York: Penguin Books, 1997.
Moss, George Donelson. Vietnam: An American Ordeal. 4th ed. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 2002.
Speech by Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky, 6 February 1968. "Ky Tells People of Emergency Assistance Plan." Saigon Embassy Files, Box 7, Gerald R. Ford Library.
