The Joint Chiefs of Staff and the War in Vietnam, 1960-1968 / Graham A. Cosmas.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Cosmas, Graham A., author.

Shulimson, Jack, author.

Contributor:

Armstrong, David A. (David Andrew), 1940- editor.

United States. Office of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Joint History Office, issuing body.

Series:

History of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Joint Chiefs of Staff--History.

United States.

United States. Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Vietnam War, 1961-1975--United States.

Vietnam War, 1961-1975.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([3] volumes)

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : Office of Joint History, Office of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, 2009-2012.

Summary:

Pt. 1: This volume describes those JCS activities related to developments in Vietnam during the period 1960-1963, when the United States expanded its initial military commitment to Southeast Asia. In 1960, the United States increased its military advisory strength in South Vietnam in response to increased Communist infiltration and to more sustained guerrilla attacks in the south and its contingency planning effort to deploy regular US forces to both Laos and South Vietnam to counter any threat by Communist Army units from the north or from China. President Kennedy's called for a new emphasis upon guerrilla warfare at first received only lukewarm support from the Joint Chiefs of Staff. After the failed Bay of Pigs episode very early in the Kennedy administration, the President lost faith in the advice of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and appointed General Maxwell Taylor to serve as his intermediary with the Joint Chiefs, until he assumed the Chairman responsibilities in October 1962. The Kennedy administration's policy was marked by clashes between factions in the Defense Department, including the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the State Department, and the White House. By 1963, these differences involved the support the US should provide for the Republic of Vietnam under its President, Ngo Dinh Diem. The history ends with the killing of Diem by a coup followed by the coincidental murder of President Kennedy a short time later.

Contents:

pt. 1. [1960-1968]

pt. 2. 1960-1968 (pt. 2)

pt. 3. [1967-1968].

Notes:

"The current version has been updated by Jack Shulimson, and reviewed by Dr. Graham A. Comas"--Foreword, Pt. 1.

"David Armstrong edited the revised version of part 3"--Foreword.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents viewed on December 12, 2012; title from electronic t.p. of volume 1.

Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified]: HathiTrust Digital Library. 2023.

Other Format:

Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Cosmas, Graham A. Joint Chiefs of Staff and the War in Vietnam, 1960-1968

OCLC:

820943673

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