Lessons in disaster : McGeorge Bundy and the path to war in Vietnam / Gordon M. Goldstein.

• Legend of the establishment -- Counselors advise but presidents decide -- Never trust the bureaucracy to get it right -- Politics is the enemy of strategy -- Conviction without rigor is a strategy for disaster -- Never deploy military means in pursuit of indeterminate ends -- Intervention is a presidential choice, not an inevitability.

• Drawing on prodigious research as well as the interviews and analysis he has conducted with former National Security Adviser McGeorge Bundy, Goldstein offers this revelatory look at the decisions that led to the U.S. involvement in Vietnam. 

Ämnesord

Vietnamkriget 1957–1975  (sao)

Diplomatiska förbindelser  (sao)

Krigsorsaker  (sao)

Politiska och sociala åsikter  (sao)

Political consultants  -- United States -- Biography. (LCSH)

Presidents  -- United States -- Staff -- Biography. (LCSH)

Vietnam War, 1961-1975  -- Causes. (LCSH)

National security  -- United States -- History -- 20th century. (LCSH)

Politiskt beslutsfattande  -- historia -- Förenta staterna -- 1960-talet (sao)

Politiska rådgivare  -- Förenta staterna (sao)

Säkerhetspolitik  -- historia -- Förenta staterna -- 1960-talet (sao)

Foreign relations  (LCSH)

United States  -- Foreign relations -- Vietnam. (LCSH)

Vietnam  -- Foreign relations -- United States. (LCSH)

United States  -- Foreign relations -- 1961-1963 -- Decision making. (LCSH)

United States  -- Foreign relations -- 1963-1969 -- Decision making. (LCSH)

Förenta staterna  -- historia -- Vietnam -- 1960-talet (sao)

Vietnam  -- historia -- Förenta staterna -- 1960-talet (sao)

Genre

Biografier  (saogf)

Personnamn

Bundy, McGeorge -- Political and social views.

Bundy, McGeorge

Institutionsnamn

National Security Council (U.S.) -- History -- 20th century.

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

Kqa.55 Historia: Förenta staterna: 1945-

Lz Biografi: särskilda personer

Klassifikation

E183.8.V5 (LCC)

327.730597 (DDC)

Kqa.55 (kssb/8)

Lz Bundy, McGeorge (kssb/8)