TY - BOOK ID - 61151495 TI - Vietnam's American war PY - 2018 SN - 9781107104792 9781107510500 9781316222591 PB - Cambridge Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Vietnam War, 1961-1975. KW - Vietnam (Democratic Republic) KW - History, Military. KW - Vietnam War, 1961-1975 KW - Vietnam Conflict, 1961-1975 KW - Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 KW - Vietnamese War, 1961-1975 KW - Vietnam (Democratic Republic, 1946- ) KW - Democratic Republic of Vietnam KW - Demokraticheskai︠a︡ Respublika Vʹetnam KW - Wietnamska Republika Demokratyczna KW - Vietnamská demokratická republika KW - Demokratichna Republika Vietnam KW - SRV KW - S.R.V. KW - DRV KW - D.R.V. KW - North Vietnam KW - Việt-Nam dân chủ Cộng hòa KW - Nước Việt-Nam dân chủ Cộng hòa KW - Vietnam (North) KW - Tonkin KW - Vietnam UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:61151495 AB - Communist forces in the Vietnam War lost most battles and suffered disproportionally higher casualties than the United States and its allies throughout the conflict. The ground war in South Vietnam and the air war in the North were certainly important in shaping the fates of the victors and losers, but they alone fail to explain why Hanoi bested Washington in the end. To make sense of the Vietnam War, we must look beyond the war itself. In his new work, Pierre Asselin explains the formative experiences and worldview of the men who devised communist strategies and tactics during the conflict, and analyzes their rationale and impact. Drawing on two decades of research in Vietnam's own archives, including classified policy statements and reports, Asselin expertly and straightforwardly relates the Vietnamese communist experience - and the reasons the war turned out the way it did. ER -