Chatto & Windus, 1969, Hard Cover, Book Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket, First
208 pages, 3 maps, jacket has tear at top front panel, the Vietnam war is likely to prove one of decisive wars of this century. It has certainly created' the greatest controversy. If it was the right war in the right place at the right time, it has been fought by the Americans, Sir Robert maintains, in entirely the wrong way. Their failure to understand the nature of the war, and the techniques of People's Revolutionary War, has brought them to the brink of defeat.The author, who is one of the world's leading experts on counter-insurgency describes these techniques, and Hanoi's strategy both on the battlefield and at the negotiating table, and attributes the American discomfiture to an obscurity of aim, a failure of strategy and a lack of control. Only two options now face the new Presidentdefeat or a continuation of the war (requiring the adoption of a new long-haul low-cost strategy). Negotiations at this stage are part of the war and are not an option, because they will lead only to one or other of these two outcomes. In this wholly original and unorthodox book Sir Robert gives a lucid explanation of the course of the war over the last four years, in terms that anybody can understand, and of the point now reached.; 220 x 140mm
208 pages, 3 maps, jacket has tear at top front panel, the Vietnam war is likely to prove one of decisive wars of this century. It has certainly created' the greatest controversy. If it was the right war in the right place at the right time, it has been fought by the Americans, Sir Robert maintains, in entirely the wrong way. Their failure to understand the nature of the war, and the techniques of People's Revolutionary War, has brought them to the brink of defeat.The author, who is one of the world's leading experts on counter-insurgency describes these techniques, and Hanoi's strategy both on the battlefield and at the negotiating table, and attributes the American discomfiture to an obscurity of aim, a failure of strategy and a lack of control. Only two options now face the new Presidentdefeat or a continuation of the war (requiring the adoption of a new long-haul low-cost strategy). Negotiations at this stage are part of the war and are not an option, because they will lead only to one or other of these two outcomes. In this wholly original and unorthodox book Sir Robert gives a lucid explanation of the course of the war over the last four years, in terms that anybody can understand, and of the point now reached.; 220 x 140mm