Perils of dominance [electronic resource] : imbalance of power and the road to war in Vietnam / Gareth Porter.
By: Porter, Gareth.
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BookPublisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2004Description: 403 p. ; 24 cm.Subject(s): Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 | Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973 | Balance of power -- History -- 20th century | National security -- United States -- History -- 20th century | Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Diplomatic history | United States -- Foreign relations -- Vietnam | Vietnam -- Foreign relations -- United States | United States -- Foreign relations -- 1961-1963 -- Decision making | United States -- Foreign relations -- 1963-1969 -- Decision making | United States -- Foreign relations -- 1953-1961Genre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 959.704/32 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view Includes bibliographical references (p. 361-381) and index.
The imbalance of power, 1953-1965 -- The Soviets and Chinese appease the United States -- Eisenhower and Dulles exploit U.S. dominance in Vietnam -- North Vietnamese policy under the American threat -- Kennedy's struggle with the national security bureaucracy -- Johnson, McNamara and the Tonkin Gulf crisis -- Bureaucratic pressures and the decisions for war -- Dominoes, bandwagons and the road to war.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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