Road to Disaster: A New History of America’s Descent into Vietnam

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Road to Disaster: A New History of America’s Descent into Vietnam is a historical study that reexamines how U.S. political and military leaders’ decisions and misjudgments led to the escalation and quagmire of the Vietnam War.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf book
history book
non-fiction book
addresses causes of U.S. escalation in Vietnam
consequences of flawed decision-making
aimsTo explain how U.S. leaders led the nation into a quagmire in Vietnam
reexamine conventional narratives about the Vietnam War
analyzes civil-military relations in the United States
policy formation in the White House
countryOfFocus United States of America
Viet Nam
surface form: Vietnam
examines U.S. military leaders
U.S. political leaders
bureaucratic dynamics in U.S. government
strategic miscalculations
focusesOn U.S. decision-making in the Vietnam War
escalation of the Vietnam War
policy errors leading to quagmire
genre historical study
military history
political history
intendedAudience general readers interested in the Vietnam War
historians
students of U.S. foreign policy
language English
mainSubject U.S. political leadership
United States foreign policy
Vietnam War
military decision-making
policy misjudgments
perspective revisionist history of U.S. involvement in Vietnam
subjectArea U.S. history
international relations
security studies
timePeriodCovered 1960s
Cold War
escalation phase of the Vietnam War

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Brian VanDeMark notableWork Road to Disaster: A New History of America’s Descent into Vietnam