Losing Binh Dinh : the failure of pacification and Vietnamization, 1969-1971 / Kevin M. Boylan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boylan, Kevin M., author.

Series:

Modern war studies.

Modern War Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Campaigns--Vietnam--Binh Doinh (Province).

Vietnam War, 1961-1975.

Counterinsurgency--Vietnam--Binh Doinh (Province).

Counterinsurgency.

Bình Định (Vietnam : Province)--History.

Bình Định (Vietnam : Province).

United States. Army. Airborne Brigade, 173rd--History.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (378 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, 2016.

Summary:

"Focusing on WASHINGTON GREEN, an ambitious but flawed American-led operation, Boylan tests and ultimately challenges the "Lost Victory" argument of recent Revisionist histories of the Vietnam War. Those histories contend that domestic politics robbed the American military of a triumph it had actually already achieved when it was forced to abandon Vietnam. Taking a much closer look at pacification and Vietnamization in a key province during a pivotal period in the war, Boylan concludes that the "Lost Victory" argument is a weak one at best and clearly compromised by the particular case of Binh Dinh"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The "pacified" province

Fast and thin

The balance of forces

Washington Green : phase I

Overextension

The red queen's race

Slowdown

Aftershocks

Conclusion : triumph mistaken.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780700623532

0700623531

OCLC:

965716347