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Blowtorch : Robert Komer, Vietnam, and American Cold War strategy
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- Creator
- by Frank Leith Jones
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Annapolis, Maryland : Naval Institute Press, [2013]
- Physical Details
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- xi, 401 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781612512280, 1612512283, 9781612512297, 1612512291
- OCLC
- ocn813910349
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-390) and index.
- Toward the New Frontier -- A man of proper ambition -- Pragmatic new frontiersman -- Komer's war -- "Our India enterprise" -- Lyndon Johnson's man -- Pacification czar -- A new thrust to pacification -- In country -- Taking off -- The year of the monkey -- The old fox gets fired -- Revival and departure -- A new transatlantic bargain -- Pentagon policymaker -- The sin of unilateralism -- The wisdom of hindsight: Vietnam reassessed -- Conclusion
Subjects
- Komer, Robert, 1922-2000.
- United States. Military Assistance Command, Vietnam. Civil Operations and Rural Development Support -- Biography.
- National Security Council (U.S.) -- Officials and employees -- Biography.
- United States. Department of Defense -- Officials and employees -- Biography.
- National security -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- United States -- Biography.
- Intelligence officers -- United States -- Biography.
- Cold War.
- United States -- Armed Forces -- Vietnam -- Civic action.
- United States -- Military policy -- Decision making.