
Dereliction of Duty
Johnson, McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam
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H. R. McMaster
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"The war in Vietnam was not lost in the field, nor was it lost on the front pages of the New York Times or the college campuses. It was lost in Washington, D.C." (H. R. McMaster, from the conclusion)
Dereliction of Duty is a stunning analysis of how and why the United States became involved in an all-out and disastrous war in Southeast Asia. Fully and convincingly researched, based on transcripts and personal accounts of crucial meetings, confrontations, and decisions, it is the only book that fully re-creates what happened and why. McMaster pinpoints the policies and decisions that got the United States into the morass and reveals who made these decisions and the motives behind them, disproving the published theories of other historians and excuses of the participants.
A riveting narrative, Dereliction of Duty focuses on a fascinating cast of characters: President Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, General Maxwell Taylor, McGeorge Bundy, and other top aides who deliberately deceived the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the US Congress, and the American public.
McMaster’s only book, Dereliction of Duty is an explosive and authoritative new look at the controversy concerning the United States involvement in Vietnam.
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- Duración: 14 h y 23 m
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A character-driven history that describes the bizarrely ill-suited alliance between America and Pakistan, written by a uniquely insightful participant: Pakistan's former ambassador to the US. The relationship between America and Pakistan is based on mutual incomprehension, and always has been. Pakistan - to American eyes - has gone from being a stabilizing friend to an essential military ally to a seedbed of terror.
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It it Delusions or Sleeping with the Enemy
- De Shah Alam en 01-28-14
De: Husain Haqqani
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Hanoi’s War
- An International History of the War for Peace in Vietnam
- De: Lien-Hang T. Nguyen
- Narrado por: Hillary Huber
- Duración: 15 h y 12 m
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While most historians of the Vietnam War focus on the origins of US involvement and the Americanization of the conflict, Lien-Hang T. Nguyen examines the international context in which North Vietnamese leaders pursued the war and American intervention ended. This riveting narrative takes the listener from the marshy Mekong Delta swamps to the bomb-saturated Red River Delta, from the corridors of power in Hanoi and Saigon to the Nixon White House, and from the peace negotiations in Paris to high-level meetings in Beijing and Moscow.
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Understanding politics in SE Asia.
- De Mark U. en 04-26-15
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Thirteen Days
- A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis
- De: Robert F. Kennedy
- Narrado por: Kurt Elftmann
- Duración: 4 h y 24 m
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In October 1962, when the United States confronted the Soviet Union over its installation of missiles in Cuba, few people shared the behind-the-scenes story as it is told here by the late Senator Robert F. Kennedy. In this unique account, he describes the hour-by-hour negotiations, with particular attention to the actions and views of his brother, President John F. Kennedy. In a foreword to this edition, the distinguished historian and Kennedy adviser Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., discusses the book's enduring importance and the significance of new information about the crisis that has come to light from the former Soviet Union.
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IF YOU LOVE HISTORY"""
- De Max & Lucy en 02-24-19
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How Wars End
- Why We Always Fight the Last Battle
- De: Gideon Rose
- Narrado por: Gideon Rose
- Duración: 12 h y 28 m
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In 1991, the United States Army trounced the Iraqi army in battle only to stumble blindly into postwar turmoil. Then in 2003 the United States did it again. How could this happen? How could the strongest power in modern history fight two wars against the same opponent in just over a decade, win lightning victories both times, and yet still be woefully unprepared for the aftermath? Because Americans always forget the political aspects of war.
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Excellent book
- De Luis en 11-04-10
De: Gideon Rose
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My Journey at the Nuclear Brink
- De: William Perry
- Narrado por: Kevin F Spalding
- Duración: 9 h y 26 m
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My Journey at the Nuclear Brink is a continuation of William J. Perry's efforts to keep the world safe from a nuclear catastrophe. It tells the story of his coming of age in the nuclear era, his role in trying to shape and contain it, and how his thinking has changed about the threat these weapons pose. In a remarkable career, Perry has dealt firsthand with the changing nuclear threat.
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His journey has just begun
- De Amazon Customer en 04-18-17
De: William Perry
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Before the First Shots Are Fired
- How America Can Win or Lose Off the Battlefield
- De: Tony Koltz, Tony Zinni
- Narrado por: Johnny Heller
- Duración: 8 h y 25 m
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For the better part of the last half century, the United States has been the world's police, claiming to defend ideologies, allies, and our national security through brute force. But is military action always the most appropriate response? Drawing on his vast experience, retired four-star general Tony Zinni argues that we have a lot of work to do to make the process of going to war-or not-more clear-eyed and ultimately successful.
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A must read for leaders
- De Ted en 06-17-22
De: Tony Koltz, y otros
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Gambling with Armageddon
- Nuclear Roulette from Hiroshima to the Cuban Missile Crisis
- De: Martin J. Sherwin
- Narrado por: Mark Bramhall
- Duración: 18 h y 50 m
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In this groundbreaking look at the Cuban Missile Crisis, Martin Sherwin not only gives us a riveting sometimes hour-by-hour explanation of the crisis itself, but also explores the origins, scope, and consequences of the evolving place of nuclear weapons in the post-World War II world. Mining new sources and materials, and going far beyond the scope of earlier works on this critical face-off between the United States and the Soviet Union — triggered when Khrushchev began installing missiles in Cuba at Castro's behest....
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Important History
- De J. B. Evans en 06-12-21
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Not One Inch
- America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate
- De: M.E. Sarotte
- Narrado por: Teri Schnaubelt
- Duración: 15 h y 54 m
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Based on over a hundred interviews and on secret records of White House-Kremlin contacts, Not One Inch shows how the United States successfully overcame Russian resistance in the 1990s to expand NATO to more than 900 million people. But it also reveals how Washington's hardball tactics transformed the era between the Cold War and the present day, undermining what could have become a lasting partnership.
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America's NATO problem
- De Jeffrey D en 03-24-22
De: M.E. Sarotte
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America's War for the Greater Middle East
- A Military History
- De: Andrew J. Bacevich
- Narrado por: Rob Shapiro, Andrew J. Bacevich
- Duración: 15 h y 7 m
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From the end of World War II until 1980, virtually no American soldiers were killed in action while serving in the Greater Middle East. Since 1990, virtually no American soldiers have been killed in action anywhere else. What caused this shift? Andrew J. Bacevich, one of the country's most respected voices on foreign affairs, offers an incisive critical history of this ongoing military enterprise - now more than 30 years old and with no end in sight.
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A Key to Understanding the US Need for Perp. War
- De Darwin8u en 05-01-16
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George Marshall: A Biography
- De: Debi Unger, Irwin Unger
- Narrado por: Johnny Heller
- Duración: 15 h y 40 m
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A major historical biography of George C. Marshall - the general who ran the U.S. campaign during the Second World War, the Secretary of State who oversaw the successful rebuilding of post-war Europe, and the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize - and the first to offer a complete picture of his life.
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Disappointing
- De Jean en 11-12-14
De: Debi Unger, y otros
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Ike's Gamble
- America's Rise to Dominance in the Middle East
- De: Michael Doran
- Narrado por: Casey Jones
- Duración: 9 h y 1 m
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In 1956 President Nasser of Egypt moved to take possession of the Suez Canal, thereby bringing the Middle East to the brink of war. The British and the French, who operated the canal, joined with Israel in a plan to retake it by force. Despite the special relationship between England and America, Dwight Eisenhower intervened to stop the invasion.
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Tightly Argued
- De Jean en 01-10-17
De: Michael Doran
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Surge
- My Journey with General David Petraeus and the Remaking of the Iraq War
- De: Peter R. Mansoor, General David Petraeus - foreword
- Narrado por: Mark Boyett
- Duración: 17 h y 12 m
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Surge is an insider's view of the most decisive phase of the Iraq War. Using newly declassified documents, unpublished manuscripts, interviews, author notes, and published sources, Surge explains how President George W. Bush, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, Ambassador Crocker, General Petraeus, and other U.S. and Iraqi political and military leaders shaped the surge from the center of the maelstrom in Baghdad and Washington.
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Helpful for the Army War College
- De BBP en 02-24-18
De: Peter R. Mansoor, y otros
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Battlegrounds
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From Lt. General H.R. McMaster, US Army, ret., the former national security advisor and author of the best-selling classic Dereliction of Duty, comes a bold and provocative re-examination of the most critical foreign policy and national security challenges that face the United States, and an urgent call to compete to preserve America’s standing and security.
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Remember: This guy was fired! WTF.
- De larry b en 09-28-20
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At War with Ourselves
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At War with Ourselves is the story of helping a disruptive President drive necessary shifts in U.S. foreign policy at a critical moment in history. McMaster entered an administration beset by conflict and the hyper partisanship of American politics. With the candor of a soldier and the perspective of a historian, McMaster rises above the fray to lay bare the good, the bad, and the ugly of Trump’s presidency and give listeners insight into what a second Trump term would look like.
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Don’t go for it
- De Ellen Monticello en 08-30-24
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Dereliction of Duty
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Here is the ultimate insider's account from the highest and most sensitive levels of the Clinton administration, revealing how the irresponsible use of power can lead to a terrible price paid by all Americans. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Robert "Buzz" Patterson was one of the military aides to commander-in-chief William Jefferson Clinton. What Patterson saw shocked him - and finally led him to write this stunning book.
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Ouch... With Friends Like This!
- De James en 12-21-13
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The Pentagon Papers
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The basis for the film The Post, The Pentagon Papers are a series of articles, documents, and studies examining the Johnson Administration's lies to the public about the extent of US involvement in the Vietnam War, bringing to light shocking conclusions about America's true role in the conflict. With a brand-new foreword by James L. Greenfield, this edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning story is sure to provoke discussion about free press and government deception.
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Awful as an audiobook
- De Sean en 02-08-18
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Embers of War
- The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam
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In this landmark work that will forever change your understanding of how and why America went to war in Vietnam, author Fredrik Logevall taps newly accessible diplomatic archives in several nations and traces the path that led two Western nations to tragically lose their way in the jungles of Southeast Asia. He brings to life the bloodiest battles of France’s final years in Indochina - and describes how, from an early point, a succession of American leaders made disastrous policy choices that put America on its own collision course with history.
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Understanding Why We failed the People of Vietnam
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Holding the Line
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An insider's sometimes shocking account of how Defense Secretary James Mattis led the US military through global challenges while serving as a crucial check on the Trump Administration. For nearly two years as Trump's Secretary of Defense, General James Mattis maintained a complicated relationship with the president. A lifelong Marine widely considered to be one of America's greatest generals, Mattis was committed to keeping America safe. Yet he served a President whose actions were frequently unpredictable and impulsive with far-reaching consequences.
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Do not purchase
- De Mary R. en 10-29-19
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Battlegrounds
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From Lt. General H.R. McMaster, US Army, ret., the former national security advisor and author of the best-selling classic Dereliction of Duty, comes a bold and provocative re-examination of the most critical foreign policy and national security challenges that face the United States, and an urgent call to compete to preserve America’s standing and security.
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Remember: This guy was fired! WTF.
- De larry b en 09-28-20
De: H. R. McMaster
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At War with Ourselves
- My Tour of Duty in the Trump White House
- De: H. R. McMaster
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At War with Ourselves is the story of helping a disruptive President drive necessary shifts in U.S. foreign policy at a critical moment in history. McMaster entered an administration beset by conflict and the hyper partisanship of American politics. With the candor of a soldier and the perspective of a historian, McMaster rises above the fray to lay bare the good, the bad, and the ugly of Trump’s presidency and give listeners insight into what a second Trump term would look like.
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Don’t go for it
- De Ellen Monticello en 08-30-24
De: H. R. McMaster
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Dereliction of Duty
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- De: Robert Patterson
- Narrado por: J. C. Hayes
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Here is the ultimate insider's account from the highest and most sensitive levels of the Clinton administration, revealing how the irresponsible use of power can lead to a terrible price paid by all Americans. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Robert "Buzz" Patterson was one of the military aides to commander-in-chief William Jefferson Clinton. What Patterson saw shocked him - and finally led him to write this stunning book.
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Ouch... With Friends Like This!
- De James en 12-21-13
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The Pentagon Papers
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The basis for the film The Post, The Pentagon Papers are a series of articles, documents, and studies examining the Johnson Administration's lies to the public about the extent of US involvement in the Vietnam War, bringing to light shocking conclusions about America's true role in the conflict. With a brand-new foreword by James L. Greenfield, this edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning story is sure to provoke discussion about free press and government deception.
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Awful as an audiobook
- De Sean en 02-08-18
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Embers of War
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In this landmark work that will forever change your understanding of how and why America went to war in Vietnam, author Fredrik Logevall taps newly accessible diplomatic archives in several nations and traces the path that led two Western nations to tragically lose their way in the jungles of Southeast Asia. He brings to life the bloodiest battles of France’s final years in Indochina - and describes how, from an early point, a succession of American leaders made disastrous policy choices that put America on its own collision course with history.
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Understanding Why We failed the People of Vietnam
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Holding the Line
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An insider's sometimes shocking account of how Defense Secretary James Mattis led the US military through global challenges while serving as a crucial check on the Trump Administration. For nearly two years as Trump's Secretary of Defense, General James Mattis maintained a complicated relationship with the president. A lifelong Marine widely considered to be one of America's greatest generals, Mattis was committed to keeping America safe. Yet he served a President whose actions were frequently unpredictable and impulsive with far-reaching consequences.
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Do not purchase
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Road to Disaster
- A New History of America’s Descent into Vietnam
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Many books have been written on the tragic decisions regarding Vietnam made by the stars of the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. Yet despite many words of analysis and reflection, no historian has been able to explain why such decent and previously successful men stumbled so badly. That changes with Road to Disaster. Historian Brian VanDeMark draws upon decades of archival research, his own interviews with many of those involved, and a wealth of previously unheard recordings by Robert McNamara and Clark Clifford, who served as Defense Secretaries for Kennedy and Johnson.
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Vietnam Veteran
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Assessing America’s National Security Threats
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The United States faces significant dangers and opportunities in the coming century. Malicious actors have harnessed new technologies such as drones, missiles, and offensive cyber weapons to threaten and, in some cases, attack America and its allies. Jihadist terrorist organizations are pursuing more destructive capabilities and are growing in strength as the United States disengages from protracted counterterrorism operations abroad.
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Not a great one…
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Exercise of Power
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From the former secretary of defense and author of the acclaimed number one best-selling memoir, Duty, a candid, sweeping examination of power, and how it has been exercised, for good and bad, by American presidents in the post-Cold War world.
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Thoughtful Evaluation by Someone in the Know
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Dereliction of Duty
- De: H. R. McMaster
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Dereliction of Duty is a stunning analysis of how and why the United States became involved in an all-out and disastrous war in Southeast Asia. Fully and convincingly researched, based on transcripts and personal accounts of crucial meetings, confrontations and decisions, it is the only book that fully re-creates what happened and why.
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Not the complete book
- De Nadine en 09-24-17
De: H. R. McMaster
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A Sacred Oath
- Memoirs of a Secretary of Defense During Extraordinary Times
- De: Mark T. Esper
- Narrado por: Joe Knezevich
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From June of 2019 until his firing by President Trump after the November 2020 election, Secretary Mark T. Esper led the Department of Defense through an unprecedented time in history—a period marked by growing threats and conflict abroad, a global pandemic unseen in a century, the greatest domestic unrest in two generations, and a White House seemingly bent on breaking accepted norms and conventions for political advantage. A Sacred Oath is Secretary Esper’s unvarnished and candid memoir of those extraordinary and dangerous times, and includes events and moments never before told.
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Boring. Lots of excuses.
- De Dennis en 05-11-22
De: Mark T. Esper
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Duty
- Memoirs of a Secretary at War
- De: Robert M. Gates
- Narrado por: George Newbern, Robert M. Gates
- Duración: 25 h y 38 m
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From the former secretary of defense, a strikingly candid, vivid account of serving Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. When Robert M. Gates received a call from the White House, he thought he'd long left Washington politics behind: After working for six presidents in both the CIA and the National Security Council, he was happily serving as president of Texas A&M University. But when he was asked to help a nation mired in two wars and to aid the troops doing the fighting, he answered what he felt was the call of duty.
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The Fighting Season
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The Secret War
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- De: Max Hastings
- Narrado por: Steven Crossley
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Spies, codes, and guerrillas played unprecedentedly critical roles in the Second World War, exploited by every nation in the struggle to gain secret knowledge of its foes, and to sow havoc behind the fronts. In The Secret War, Max Hastings presents a worldwide cast of characters and some extraordinary sagas of intelligence and resistance, to create a new perspective on the greatest conflict in history.
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Better read than listened to
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Trump in Exile
- De: Meridith McGraw
- Narrado por: Beth Hicks
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The Capitol riots on January 6, 2021, put a horrific closing note on a norm-shattering presidency, as the twice-impeached Donald Trump rode a wave of denial and resentment out of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and crashed back at Mar-a-Lago—seemingly wounded, seemingly done. But he wasn’t. And what, exactly, was he building in there? Meridith McGraw vividly chronicles the incredible period of Trump’s exile in South Florida and brings us inside the gilded walls of his private club, where an alternate reality in which the 2020 election was stolen became Republican Party orthodoxy.
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Wish I’d Have Returned Sooner…
- De Deanne Hanson en 09-30-24
De: Meridith McGraw
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Fools on the Hill
- The Hooligans, Saboteurs, Conspiracy Theorists, and Dunces Who Burned Down the House
- De: Dana Milbank
- Narrado por: Dana Milbank
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From inside the chamber, bestselling author Dana Milbank exposes the petty, inchoate, and dysfunctional state of the Republican House—a confederacy of dunces racing to the bottom, without shame and certainly without the ability to get anything done.
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If you weren't paying attention
- De Jesse Porter en 10-01-24
De: Dana Milbank
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Vietnam
- A History
- De: Stanley Karnow
- Narrado por: Edward Holland
- Duración: 27 h y 42 m
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In this comprehensive history, Stanley Karnow demystifies the tragic ordeal of America's war in Vietnam. The book's central theme is that America's leaders, prompted as much by domestic politics as by global ambitions, carried the United States into Southeast Asia with little regard for the realities of the region. Karnow elucidates the decision-making process in Washington and Asia and recounts the political and military events that occurred after the Americans arrived in Vietnam.
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As stunning as it was engaging
- De David Ewing en 08-06-07
De: Stanley Karnow
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LBJ and McNamara
- The Vietnam Partnership Destined to Fail
- De: Peter L.W. Osnos
- Narrado por: Stephen Graybill
- Duración: 5 h y 52 m
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LBJ and McNamara: The Vietnam Partnership Destined to Fail details how President Lyndon B. Johnson and his secretary of defense, Robert McNamara, made choices central to US strategy in Vietnam, ending in defeat. The portrait emerges of men who knew that conventional victory was impossible but who could not or would not reverse the policies that they and the military pursued.
De: Peter L.W. Osnos
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Fire in the Lake
- De: Frances FitzGerald
- Narrado por: Jeff Bottoms
- Duración: 22 h y 31 m
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This magisterial work, based on Frances FitzGerald's many years of research and travels, takes us inside the history of Vietnam - the traditional, ancestor-worshiping villages, the conflicts between Communists and anti-Communists, Catholics and Buddhists, generals and monks, the disruption created by French colonialism, and America's ill-fated intervention - and reveals the country as seen through Vietnamese eyes. Originally published in 1972, Fire in the Lake was the first history of Vietnam written by an American, and subsequently won the Pulitzer Prize.
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American Hubris; Vietnamese Misery
- De gunnerThrax en 01-24-21
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Dereliction of Duty
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- Michael
- 08-17-20
the truth behind the failure into Vietnam
The history of America's decent into Vietnam began with president Kennedy's administration and was drivin further down a path with no foreseeable future for success. simply put, H.R.McMaster walks you through the abdication of responsibility by the joint chiefs of staff, President Lyndon B Johnson and Secretary of Defense McNamara to the American people. the Joint chief of staff focused on how to win tactically but failed to speak thw truth regarding the full requirements of success. This detailed book accounts for all the decisions, misjudgments, comprises, and omissions that led to Vietnam.
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- Walter
- 10-08-23
The blunders that led to a war of folly in Vietnam
H.R. McMaster, in his first book, scrutinizes the American decisions and decision-making processes that led to American intervention in Vietnam.
McMaster ultimately concludes that it was the incompetence, and indifference to the outcome, by the POLITICAL leaders of the era, namely LBJ's sidelining of the military leadership, that made America blunder into a war that could not be won.
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- Merle Newman
- 10-10-18
A General Speaks Truth to Power
The author most recently served as National Security Advisor to President Trump departing after just one year apparently over differences with the President. This book is a detailed analysis of what when wrong in Vietnam from the perspective of a highly educated US military officer who was not a decision maker at that time. The focus is on the period of 1962 to 1965 and while very detailed it is also very repetitive. But if you want to get riled up (again) over the handling of the Vietnam War this is the book for you. The author is the narrator. His performance as a narrator is unpolished but sincere. It’s worth the read.
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- Male in Chicago
- 05-02-19
A strong and well written argument
A strong and well written argument regarding the current belief that the Vietnam War or Limited Police Action in South Vietnam, was caused by deceit and lies, and that Johnson would do whatever it took to get the Great Society passed
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- Steve Dietrich
- 03-22-20
A MUST READ FOR THE LESSONS OF HISTORY
John F Kennedy declared , in one of his early speeches , " there is no place too far away to fight for freedom" and began the quiet insertion of US Special Forces into Vietnam. It was part of his effort to move away from Mutual Assured Destruction , sending US advisors to work with foreign nations including South Vietnam. Those advisors were officially stationed in the US and TDY to far off places
Kennedy also brought HBS and Ford whizkid David McNamara into the administration. Throughout it's history the nation the President, as commander and chief of the military , has had a very close relationship with the Chiefs of the various services. McNamara began to challenge that but Kennedy maintained control until his assignation.
In the vacuum that existed after Kennedy's death McNamara accelerated his efforts to distance the service chiefs from the President. Johnson also used McNamara to blunt the chief's communication channel to the President to suit both Johnson's and McNamara's political agenda.
McMaster documents the tragedy as it unfolds, McNamara's manipulation , often on Johnsons' request . Along the way the careers of many of the military's most competent leaders were sacrificed in order to implement a sure to loose strategy in Vietnam. McNamara cut out the military leaders time and again so that the President did not have to face a truth that he did not want to be responsible for knowing.
At the same time McNamara's whiz kids were trying to take control of military aircraft designs. Their fixation on his pet TFX as a joint service fighter was only stopped when one Admiral sacrificed his career to protect the nation. Facing a Senate committee hearing on the project Admiral Tom Connally was asked about the project and responded , " Senator there's not enough power in all of Christdom to operate that aircraft off a carrier. " In a rare victory, McNamara's politicization of the military acquisition process was challenged and the F-14 was born. It became the Tomcat in honor of the admiral who sacrificed his career for the truth and ruled the skies until grounded by Clinton.
McMaster's account reflects painstaking research and lets the facts tell the story with very little interpretation - a great and important read.
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- LDL
- 11-11-19
A sobering but important story
H.R McMaster provides a critical lesson for anyone interested in military planning, public policy, or the survival of representative democracy. It's the story of how key well meaning individuals neglected their true responsibilities in deference to consensus and institutional loyalty. Well worth the time and definitely enhanced by the author's narration.
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- Greg
- 08-17-21
Great Info but hard to follow
Great book for any military leader. Following along was a little choppy especially if you know very little about the Vietnam politics. Another great book by this author is Battle Grounds.
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- Steve
- 01-28-24
Great summary of complex processes, decisions, and motivations
This book provides fascinating insights into the inner workings of the Johnson administration, starting with what led up to his beliefs, and approaches to working with the military, and the consequences of his priorities at the time: winning the election and his domestic policy. Very well constructed narrative
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- Ron Davis
- 12-18-22
I'm a Vietnam Veteran
I was 19 years old and believed in the government and the so called Domino theory of communist world domination. Vietnam changed me and Agent Orange gave me bone cancer in my 30s. It killed friends and caused disability like Parkinson's disease in others. My war BFF has suffered with debilitating PTSD since the war and was placed on 100% disability by the VA We are now in our 70s and he is still "wired" all the time. All to serve the political ambitions of government leaders and the dereliction of duty of top officers. I was back from the war for 25 years before anyone thanked me for my service. First time it happened I broke down and cried. Along with this book which is excellent I would recommend A Bright Shinning Lie.
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- Thomas S.
- 01-30-21
A concise and fact based presentation of the mistakes that led to the tragedy in Vietnam
The book starts with the Kennedy administration and presents detailed facts that build a story of the failure in Vietnam. The opinions that are given are based on those facts and the Generals military experience.
It leads to a basic conclusion. No matter what time period it might be somethings never change. If you as the leader of your country do not possess the will and desire to win then all your doing is throwing lives away for nothing.
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