Perils of dominance [electronic resource] : imbalance of power and the road to war in Vietnam / Gareth Porter.
Publication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2004.Description: 403 pISBN:- 0520239482 (cloth : alk. paper)
- Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973
- Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963
- Balance of power -- History -- 20th century
- National security -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Diplomatic history
- United States -- Foreign relations -- 1953-1961
- United States -- Foreign relations -- 1961-1963 -- Decision making
- United States -- Foreign relations -- 1963-1969 -- Decision making
- United States -- Foreign relations -- Vietnam
- Vietnam -- Foreign relations -- United States
- 959.704/32 22
- E183.8.V5 P67 2004eb
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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.
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