The United States and the Struggle for Southeast Asia: by Alan Levine

By Alan Levine

This ebook places American coverage in Southeast Asia and the irritating occasions of the second one Indochina conflict into the bigger standpoint of the chilly conflict. Levine's wide-ranging paintings treats every thing from the neighborhood appeals of Communist events within the area and the peculiarities of Vietnamese Communism to the improvement of the domino conception and its effects, from helicopter war to the antiwar circulation. Treating harshly a number of the orthodoxies that experience built approximately Vietnam and scathing in its remedy of the Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon administrations, it is going to curiosity students, scholars, and veterans of the conflict.

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Stalin perhaps felt that the Communist leaders on the spot, who had failed to keep their position in the government and then responded sluggishly to the change in line, needed supervision by someone “close” to him. On August 3, Musso, an old-line leader of the Indonesian Communists who had been in exile since 1935, returned from the USSR and took over as party secretary. In late August and early September, Sjarifuddin and other leaders of the Socialist and Labor parties announced that they had been Communists all along.

But the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Arthur Radford, a hard-liner, was sympathetic. He and Ely discussed a possible operation, “Vautour” (Vulture), to relieve Dien Bien Phu by a massive American air attack. “Vulture” went through several variants; most envisaged attacks by B-29 bombers and carrier-based planes with conventional weapons, although using tactical atomic weapons was discussed. Bernard Fall, the leading authority on the battle of Dien Bien Phu, maintained that “Vulture” could have saved the garrison.

The Vietminh and the French later joined forces to smash the VNQDD and the Dong Minh Hoi, who opposed the French-Vietnamese agreement. Subsequent negotiations, however, went badly. Fighting had never ended in the south, while the French created a puppet Cochin Chinese separatist movement to keep that area, the richest part of Vietnam, from Ho’s control. The French would not concede real sovereignty to Ho’s government, and the French behaved in a way that would enrage even the most moderate anti-Communist nationalist.

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