Security and Sacrifice: Isolation, Intervention, and American Foreign Policyby Elliott Abrams

✍ Scribed by Review by: David C. Hendrickson

• Book ID: 124207941
• Publisher: Council on Foreign Relations
• Year: 1995
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 338 KB
• Volume: 74
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0015-7120
• DOI: 10.2307/20047154

✦ Synopsis

Recent Books takes the perspective of the small band of American advisers who helped South Vietnamese forces stalemate the North Vietnamese assault. Particularly interest ing is his contention that General Vo Nguyen Giap's strategy for the Easter offensive was flawed, and its implemen tation, often inept. It was, nonetheless, a brutal and bloody struggle decided, in the author's view, by the valor and skill of American advisers, a torrent of Ameri can air power, and the determination of some parts of the South Vietnamese military. This book does better than most in attempting to portray the Viet namese perspective, South and North, but it remains, nonetheless, resolutely focused on the United States. Perhaps America's last Vietnam battle, but not, alas, Vietnam's.