America and guerrilla warfare
Anthony James Joes argues that the U.S. experience in Vietnam was atypical of America's overall experience with guerrilla warfare. He examines several twentieth-century conflicts that should have better prepared the country for Vietnam: the Philippines in 1898, Nicaragua in the 1920s, Greece in...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Lexington
University Press of Kentucky
2004.
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| Summary: | Anthony James Joes argues that the U.S. experience in Vietnam was atypical of America's overall experience with guerrilla warfare. He examines several twentieth-century conflicts that should have better prepared the country for Vietnam: the Philippines in 1898, Nicaragua in the 1920s, Greece in the late 1940s, and the Philippines again during the Huk War of 1945-52. In a controversial interpretation, he suggests that valuable lessons were forgotten or ignored in Southeast Asia. |
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| Physical Description: | 418 p. maps 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [382]-411) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780813190952 (pbk.) 0813190959 (pbk.) |