WAR DURING PEACE: A Strategy for Defeat - Softcover

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For those seeking answers as to how the United States became bogged down in Vietnam, War During Peace: A Strategy for Defeat is a must-read. As evidenced by the book's voluminous bibliography, this book is carefully researched and documented. The book details the strategic mistakes made in Washington, D.C. between 1965 and 1968 during the Vietnam War.

War During Peace: A Strategy for Defeat offers a probing examination of civil-military relationship gone wrong is a major contribution to military science and to the field of civil-military relations. Detailing the flaws in the Johnson Administration's Strategy of Attrition and the folly of thinking the gradual application of airpower could "modify" the behavior of the North Vietnamese leadership.

War During Peace: A Strategy for Defeat exposes the thinking of those who made the Vietnam War impossible for our military to win and how our political leadership continues to make many of the same mistakes in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Researched and written by award-winning author, Dr. William Hamilton, this book reveals insights into the conflict through personal interviews with many of the then retired generals and admirals who served on the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the McNamara Era.

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