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The Perfect War: Technowar in Vietnam
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The Perfect War: Technowar in Vietnam

by James William Gibson

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Paperback · 544 pages Grove Atlantic · 2000

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The Perfect War

In this groundbreaking book, James William Gibson shatters the misled assumptions behind both liberal and conservative explanations for America's failure in Vietnam. Gibson shows how American government and military officials developed a disturbingly limited concept of war -- what he calls "technowar" -- in which all efforts were focused on maximizing the enemy's body count, regardless of the means. Consumed by a blind faith in the technology of destruction, American leaders failed to take into account their enemy's highly effective guerrilla tactics. Indeed, technowar proved woefully inapplicable to the actual political and military strategies used by the Vietnamese, and Gibson reveals how U.S. officials consistently falsified military records to preserve the illusion that their approach would prevail. Gibson was one of the first historians to question the fundamental assumptions behind American policy, and The Perfect War is a brilliant reassessment of the war -- now republished with a new introduction by the author.


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Publisher
Grove Atlantic
Author
James William Gibson
Format
Paperback
Published
Feb 2, 2000
ISBN-13
9780871137999
ISBN-10
0871137992
Pages
544
Carton quantity
14 copies
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