ID - 1664186 TI - Triumph forsaken : the Vietnam war, 1954-1965 PY - 2006 SN - 9780521869119 0521869110 9780511511646 9780521757638 9780511247224 0511247222 0511511647 0511322887 9780511322884 1281836893 9781281836892 1107171237 0521757630 0511245831 0511245068 9781107171237 9780511245831 PB - Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - History of Asia KW - anno 1960-1969 KW - anno 1950-1959 KW - Vietnam KW - Vietnam War, 1961-1975. KW - Vietnam Conflict, 1961-1975 KW - Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 KW - Vietnamese War, 1961-1975 KW - History KW - Arts and Humanities UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:1664186 AB - Drawing on a wealth of new evidence from all sides, Triumph Forsaken, first published in 2007, overturns most of the historical orthodoxy on the Vietnam War. Through the analysis of international perceptions and power, it shows that South Vietnam was a vital interest of the United States. The book provides many insights into the overthrow of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem in 1963 and demonstrates that the coup negated the South Vietnamese government's tremendous, and hitherto unappreciated, military and political gains between 1954 and 1963. After Diem's assassination, President Lyndon Johnson had at his disposal several aggressive policy options that could have enabled South Vietnam to continue the war without a massive US troop infusion, but he ruled out these options because of faulty assumptions and inadequate intelligence, making such an infusion the only means of saving the country. ER -