Twelve American Wars: Nine of Them Avoidable - Hardcover

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      This is the hidden history of American wars. Eugene G. Windchy lays bare the tricks, errors, and secret plans that have taken the American people into avoidable conflicts. Our greatest national catastrophe was the Civil War. It began with Southerners firing on Fort Sumter. Why did they reject an opportunity to take the fort peacefully? We learn who opened fire. And why.

      The assassination of Austria's Archduke Ferdinand sparked World War I. Americans tend to think he was killed by a "lone wolf." In fact, along the Archduke's motorcade route at least six trained assassins waited with bombs and revolvers. Windchy reveals what nation was behind that A month later another assassination took place. It silenced a Socialist politician who had vowed to expose the people who planned the war. The first assassination provoked the war, the second hid its authors.

      In 1917, the U.S. entered World War I and saved the Allies from defeat on land and sea. Yet in 1936, Winston Churchill said that the world would have been better off if the Americans had stayed home. His reasons are presented.

      Concerning the much criticized American entry into the Vietnam War, Windchy gives the inside story, updating the information in his book Tonkin Gulf. He also reports that President Lyndon B. Johnson rejected the Army's recommended war strategy. Could the Army's plan have won the war? Yes, said a defecting North Vietnamese colonel.

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In this study, author Eugene G. Windchy exposes the tricks, errors, and secret plans that have taken the American people into avoidable wars—and he recommends ways to prevent future bloodshed. Following up on his earlier book, Tonkin Gulf (“superb investigative reporting”--N. Y. Times) Windchy examines twelve wars and finds that nine of them could have been avoided. Even the Civil War could have been avoided or, failing that, it could have ended with much less bloodshed. The author documents evidence that the sinking of the Lusitania was planned by the British Admiralty, that President Woodrow Wilson was looking for a way to enter World War I as he campaigned for reelection with the slogan “He Kept Us Out of War,” and that civilians in Washington orchestrated the Tonkin Gulf incidents that led to American participation in the Vietnam War. Those who do not remember the past are doomed to repeat it. If we want to live in peace, we must begin by examining Twelve American Wars.