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The road to Dien Bien Phu : a history of the first war for Vietnam
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ISBN: 0691228655 Year: 2022 Publisher: Princeton, New Jersey ; Oxford : Princeton University Press,

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A multifaceted history of Ho Chi Minh's climactic victory over French colonial might that foreshadowed America's experience in VietnamOn May 7, 1954, when the bullets stopped and the air stilled in Dien Bien Phu, there was no doubt that Vietnam could fight a mighty colonial power and win. After nearly a decade of struggle, a nation forged in the crucible of war had achieved a victory undreamed of by any other national liberation movement. The Road to Dien Bien Phu tells the story of how Ho Chi Minh turned a ragtag guerrilla army into a modern fighting force capable of bringing down the formidable French army.Taking readers from the outbreak of fighting in 1945 to the epic battle at Dien Bien Phu, Christopher Goscha shows how Ho transformed Vietnam from a decentralized guerrilla state based in the countryside to a single-party communist state shaped by a specific form of "War Communism." Goscha discusses how the Vietnamese operated both states through economics, trade, policing, information gathering, and communications technology. He challenges the wisdom of counterinsurgency methods developed by the French and still used by the Americans today, and explains why the First Indochina War was arguably the most brutal war of decolonization in the twentieth century, killing a million Vietnamese, most of them civilians.Panoramic in scope, The Road to Dien Bien Phu transforms our understanding of this conflict and the one the United States would later enter, and sheds new light on communist warfare and statecraft in East Asia today.

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Indochinese War, 1946-1954. --- Communism --- Decolonization --- History --- History. --- Vietnam --- History, Military --- 320th Division (Vietnam). --- Armed propaganda. --- Artillery. --- B?o Ð?i. --- Bangkok. --- Battle of Cao Bang (1979). --- Battle of Dien Bien Phu. --- Battle of Hanoi. --- Beneficiary. --- Blockade. --- Branch Office. --- Cambodia. --- Central Vietnam. --- Chiang Kai-shek. --- Colonial war. --- Colonialism. --- Communism. --- Communist International. --- Communist Party of China. --- Communist state. --- Counter-insurgency. --- Decolonization. --- Democratic Kampuchea. --- Division (military). --- Empire of Vietnam. --- Ferhat Abbas. --- First Indochina War. --- French Colonial. --- French Indochina. --- Front organization. --- Gaullism. --- Hainan. --- Haiphong. --- Hanoi. --- Henri Navarre. --- Ho Chi Minh trail. --- Ho Chi Minh. --- Hoang Van Chi. --- Hubert Lyautey. --- Hydraulics. --- Indochina Wars. --- Indochina. --- Indochinese Communist Party. --- Isan. --- Kuomintang. --- Laos. --- Le Monde. --- Luang Prabang. --- Lê Ð?c Th?. --- Mao Zedong. --- Mekong Delta. --- Military Revolution. --- Military base. --- Military of the European Union. --- Military personnel. --- Military strategy. --- Mobilization. --- National security. --- New class. --- Ngo Dinh Diem. --- Nguyen. --- Nha Trang. --- North Vietnam. --- Northern Vietnam. --- Nouhak Phoumsavanh. --- Obstacle. --- Operation Castor. --- Out the road. --- People's Army of Vietnam. --- People's Army. --- People's war. --- Phnom Penh. --- Port of entry. --- Pretext. --- Provisional government. --- Radicalism (historical). --- Radio station. --- Regime. --- Regiment. --- Savannakhet. --- Son Ngoc Minh. --- Souphanouvong. --- Southern Vietnam. --- Stasi. --- State of Vietnam. --- State of emergency. --- State-building. --- Strategic goal (military). --- Task force. --- Thailand. --- Vatta. --- Viet Minh. --- Vietnam News Agency. --- Vietnam War. --- Vietnamese people. --- Vietnamese studies. --- Vietnamization. --- Võ Nguyên Giáp. --- Yan'an. --- Zhou Enlai.

Confronting the costs of war
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ISBN: 0691078831 0691000956 9786612751578 1282751573 1400820707 1400810906 9781400820702 9781400810901 9780691078830 9780691000954 9781282751576 6612751576 1400815029 Year: 1992 Publisher: Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press

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What determines the strategies by which a state mobilizes resources for war? And does war preparation strengthen or weaken the state in relation to society? In addressing these questions, Michael Barnett develops a novel theoretical framework that traces the connection between war preparation and changes in state-society relations, and applies that framework to Egypt from 1952 to 1977 and Israel from 1948 through 1977. Confronting the Costs of War addresses major issues in international relations, comparative politics, and Middle Eastern studies.

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Civil-military relations --- Relations pouvoir civil-pouvoir militaire --- History --- Egypt --- Israel --- Israël --- Egypte --- Military policy. --- Politics and government. --- Politics and government --- Politique militaire --- Politique et gouvernement --- 810 Theorie en Methode --- 830 Economie --- 836 (Multi-)nationale ondernemingen --- 837 Financiën en Bankwezen --- 841 Politiek Bestel --- 842 Media --- 850 Vrede- en conflictstudies --- 855 Oorlogsvoering --- 870 Defensie en Wapens --- 881.3 Noord-Afrika --- 883.4 West-Azië --- Civil-military relations. --- Israël --- Military and civilian power --- Military-civil relations --- Ägypten --- Egitto --- Egipet --- Egiptos --- Miṣr --- Southern Region (United Arab Republic) --- Egyptian Region (United Arab Republic) --- Iqlīm al-Janūbī (United Arab Republic) --- Egyptian Territory (United Arab Republic) --- Egipat --- Arab Republic of Egypt --- A.R.E. --- ARE (Arab Republic of Egypt) --- Jumhūrīyat Miṣr al-ʻArabīyah --- Mitsrayim --- Egipt --- Ijiptʻŭ --- Misri --- Ancient Egypt --- Gouvernement royal égyptien --- Executive power --- Sociology, Military --- Military government --- Égypte --- جمهورية مصر العربية --- مِصر‎ --- مَصر‎ --- Maṣr --- Khēmi --- エジプト --- Ejiputo --- Egypti --- Egypten --- מצרים --- United Arab Republic --- Arab Cold War. --- Arab–Israeli conflict. --- Arms industry. --- Austerity. --- Authoritarianism. --- Bourgeoisie. --- Capitalism. --- Colonialism. --- Comparative politics. --- Conscription. --- Correlates of War. --- Counter-insurgency. --- Criticisms of socialism. --- David Ben-Gurion. --- Domestic policy. --- Economic development. --- Economic growth. --- Economic nationalism. --- Economic policy. --- Economic power. --- Economic problem. --- Economics. --- Economy. --- Egyptian Government. --- Embargo. --- External debt. --- Failed state. --- Foreign policy. --- Great power. --- Hard currency. --- High politics. --- Histadrut. --- Hostility. --- Ideology. --- Imperialism. --- Industrialisation. --- International relations. --- Israelis. --- Liberalization. --- Mapai. --- Marxism. --- Militarism. --- Militarization. --- Military Keynesianism. --- Military service. --- Military strategy. --- Military threat. --- Military–industrial complex. --- National security. --- Nationalization. --- Neocolonialism. --- Neorealism (international relations). --- On War. --- Origins of the Cold War. --- Overproduction. --- Policy. --- Political Order in Changing Societies. --- Political alienation. --- Political economy. --- Politics Among Nations. --- Politics. --- Populism. --- Power politics. --- Private sector. --- Public expenditure. --- Public sector. --- Radicalism (historical). --- Radicalization. --- Realigning election. --- Realism (international relations). --- Requirement. --- Right-wing politics. --- Security dilemma. --- Security studies. --- Shortage. --- Soviet Union. --- State (polity). --- State formation. --- States and Social Revolutions. --- Strategic goal (military). --- Strategy. --- Tariff. --- Tax. --- Theory of International Politics. --- Third World. --- Total war. --- Trade barrier. --- Undue hardship. --- War bond. --- War economy. --- War effort. --- War of Attrition. --- War studies. --- War. --- Warfare. --- World Politics. --- World War I. --- World War II. --- Yom Kippur War. --- Zionism.

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