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Vietnam: The History of an Unwinnable War, 1945-1975

机译:越南:一场无法战胜的历史,1945-1975年

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John Prados, a senior fellow of the National Security Archive at George Washington University, has produced the most comprehensive, authoritative, and readable single-volume narrative history of the American war in Vietnam yet seen. Benefiting from many recently declassified documents and presidential tapes in the United States, as well as significant foreign-source documentation, Prados brilliantly draws together what he calls a "unified field theory . . . [that] attempts to weave an account of both action and context that includes all necessary elements" (italics in original, p. xiii). The result is a narrative history of remarkable scope and considerable depth that weaves together military threads with political, social, economic, and foreign policy threads, forming a policy envelope that "narrowed over time due to developments in all those fields" (p. xi). This ever-more limited range of potential policy choices for the United States in Vietnam essentially made the war unwinnable. In a very real sense, Prados demonstrates the inconvenient yet fundamental truth of the Clausewitzian dictum about the relationship of war and politics.
机译:乔治·华盛顿大学国家安全档案馆的高级研究员约翰·普拉多斯(John Prados)撰写了迄今所见过的最全面,最权威,最易读的越南战争单卷叙述历史。普拉多斯得益于美国最近解密的许多文件和总统录音带,以及大量的国外文件,得益于他所说的“统一领域理论……”,该理论试图既对行动又对行动包含所有必要元素的上下文”(斜体字,第xiii页)。结果是叙事历史的范围和深度都非常大,将军事线与政治,社会,经济和外交政策线编织在一起,形成了“随着所有这些领域的发展而随着时间的流逝而缩小”的政策范围(p。xi)。 )。美国在越南的潜在政策选择范围越来越有限,从根本上使这场战争无法打赢。在非常真实的意义上,普拉多斯论证了克劳塞维兹式的关于战争与政治关系的格言的不便却基本的真理。

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