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War in a time of peace
Bush, Clinton, and the generals
By Halberstam, David
- ISBN
- 978-0-74320-212-1
- Publisher
- New York : Simon & Schuster, 2002.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on October 1, 2001
Halberstam, the former Vietnam War correspondent and redoubtable historian (The Best and the Brightest), assesses the lasting influence of the Indochina war on U.S. foreign policy. Popular lore has it that the Gulf War, a convincing triumph over a Third World despotism, banished the "Vietnam Syndrome," whose most obvious feature is an extreme reluctance to put American troops at risk for fear of alienating the p...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
