Powerful and brutal weapons : Nixon, Kissinger, and the Easter Offensive / Stephen P. Randolph.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Randolph, Stephen P., 1952-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Easter Offensive, 1972.

Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Aerial operations, American.

Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994.

Kissinger, Henry, 1923-2023.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (414 pages)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

As America confronts an unpredictable war in Iraq, Randolph returns to an earlier conflict that severely tested our civilian and military leaders. In 1972, America sought to withdraw from Vietnam with its credibility intact, with President Nixon and National Security Advisor Kissinger hoping that gains on the battlefield would strengthen their position at the negotiating table. Randolph's intimate chronicle of the commander-in-chief gains us unprecedented access to how these strategic assessments were made and played out.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

MAPS

ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THE TEXT

INTRODUCTION

1. NIXON'S WAR

2. THE POLITBURO'S STRATEGIC CALCULUS

3. THE NVA PREPARES

4. COMMANDO HUNT VII

5. THE INITIAL SURGES

6. NIXON TAKES CHARGE

7. THE FORCES FLOW FORWARD

8. B-52s OVER THE NORTH

9. ATTACK IN THE HIGHLANDS

10. THE FALL OF QUANG TRI

11. THE PATH TO LINEBACKER

12. CLOSING THE PORTS

13. LINEBACKER PLANNING AND DIRECTION

14. THE INITIAL STRIKES

15. THE DRV RESPONDS

16. NIXON TRIUMPHANT

17. THE SIEGE OF AN LOC

18. THE DEFENSE OF HUE

19. THE CENTER HOLDS

20. STALEMATE AT THE MY CHANH RIVER

21. REACTIVE ADVERSARIES

22. THE VIEW FROM HANOI

23. "ONE OF THOSE DAYS"

24. TOWARD THE PEACE PATH

CONCLUSION

WEAPONS AND TACTICS

NOTES

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [347]-382) and index.

ISBN:

9780674027091

0674027094

OCLC:

646814826