H. R. McMaster

Dereliction of Duty

Johnson, McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam

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Produktbeschreibung

This text is an analysis of how and why the United States became involved in a disastrous all-out war in Southeast Asia. Fully researched and based on recently-released transcripts and personal accounts of crucial meetings, confrontations and decisions, it fully recreates what happened.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Harper Perennial / HarperCollins US
• 1998.
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 153mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 515g
• ISBN-13: 9780060929084
• ISBN-10: 0060929081
• Artikelnr.: 22289304

Autorenporträt

H. R. McMaster is the Fouad and Michelle Ajami Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and Stanford University. He is also the Susan and Bernard Liautaud Fellow at The Freeman Spogli Institute and Lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He serves as chairman of the advisory board of the Center on Military and Political Power at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the Japan Chair at the Hudson Institute. A native of Philadelphia, H.R. graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1984. He served as a U.S. Army officer for thirty-four years and retired as a lieutenant general in 2018. He remained on active duty while serving as the twenty-sixth assistant to the president for national security affairs. He taught history at West Point and holds a PhD in history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.