This text is the first to closely compare and contrast the Gulf and Vietnam Wars on both the war and home fronts. Widely respected experts give a balanced, new perspective on the Vietnam War, based on considerable new primary research to explain the salient factors that contributed to the decision making, air and ground considerations, and outcome. This text, carefully focused for classes in modern American history and military studies, appraises the legacies of the Vietnam War that have been felt in the United States for the last two decades.

Looking Back on the Vietnam War: A 1990s Perspective on the Decisions, Combat, and Legacies (Contributions in Military Studies, 142)

History

Head, William P.

Grinter, Lawrence E.

Americas

Praeger

This book is a reexamination of the Persian Gulf War by a number of academic and military historians to determine what we did right, what we did wrong, and how our performance could have been improved. This study addresses the questions: Why did the war happen? Was the Gulf War a vindication of Vietnam? Did the American military really learn anything from the war in Vietnam? Did they really adapt? What did the Allies actually win in the Gulf War, if anything? Finally, have we learned anything from the Gulf War? Some authors conclude that in retrospect many analysts have become convinced that despite its military successes the United States garnered little of worth from the Gulf War. Others believe a great deal was achieved, and some have withheld final judgement.

The Eagle in the Desert: Looking Back on U. S. Involvement in the Persian Gulf War

Jr., Earl H. Tilford

Asia

This book is a reexamination of the Persian Gulf War by a number of academic and military historians to determine what we did right, what we did wrong, and how our performance could have been improved. This study addresses the questions: Why did the war happen? Was the Gulf War a vindication of Vietnam? Did the American military really learn anything from the war in Vietnam? Did they really adapt? What did the Allies actually win in the Gulf War, if anything? Finally, have we learned anything from the Gulf War? Some authors conclude that in retrospect many analysts have become convinced that despite its military successes the United States garnered little of worth from the Gulf War. Others believe a great deal was achieved, and some have withheld final judgement.

The Eagle in the Desert: Looking Back on U. S. Involvement in the Persian Gulf War (164)

The Tet Offensive (Studies; 71)

The Tet Offensive of 1968 was perhaps the key incident in the War for Vietnam. But the debate surrounding the offensive continues: Was it a failed last-gasp effort by the defeated North Vietnamese and their Viet Cong allies? Or was it part of a larger plan that led to victory for the North Vietnamese and their allies? The essays in this volume are among the very first to seek to dispel the wishful thinking, analytical dogmas, and political agendas that have obscured past efforts to master this key turning point in Vietnamese and American history. They reveal that we can look at the truth―and learn from it.

Gilbert, Marc J.

The Tet Offensive of 1968 was perhaps the key incident in the War for Vietnam. But the debate surrounding the offensive continues: Was it a failed last-gasp effort by the defeated North Vietnamese and their Viet Cong allies? Or was it part of a larger plan that led to victory for the North Vietnamese and their allies? The essays in this volume are among the very first to seek to dispel the wishful thinking, analytical dogmas, and political agendas that have obscured past efforts to master this key turning point in Vietnamese and American history. They reveal that we can look at the truth―and learn from it.

Looking Back on the Vietnam War: A 1990s Perspective on the Decisions, Combat, and Legacies (Contributions in Military Studies)

Yenan!: Colonel Wilbur Peterkin and the American military mission to the Chinese Communists, 1944-1945

Documentary Publications

Through the camera's eye: A photographic survey of the origins of Robins Field, 1941-1945 (U)--special study

Office of History, Warner Robins Air Logistics Center

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Books by Head, William P.

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Looking Back on the Vietnam War: A 1990s Perspective on the Decisions, Combat, and Legacies (Contributions in Military Studies, 142)

The Eagle in the Desert: Looking Back on U. S. Involvement in the Persian Gulf War

The Eagle in the Desert: Looking Back on U. S. Involvement in the Persian Gulf War (164)

The Tet Offensive (Studies; 71)

The Tet Offensive (Studies; 71)

Looking Back on the Vietnam War: A 1990s Perspective on the Decisions, Combat, and Legacies (Contributions in Military Studies)

Yenan!: Colonel Wilbur Peterkin and the American military mission to the Chinese Communists, 1944-1945

Through the camera's eye: A photographic survey of the origins of Robins Field, 1941-1945 (U)--special study